The France of the little-middles : a suburban housing development in greater Paris / Marie Cartier [and three others] ; translated by Juliette Radcliffe Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cartier, Marie, author.

Series:

Anthropology of Europe ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs--France--Gonesse.

Suburbs.

Suburban life--France--Gonesse.

Suburban life.

Middle class--France--Gonesse--Social conditions.

Middle class.

Gonesse (France)--Social conditions.

Gonesse (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : berghahn, 2008.

Summary:

The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the “Little-Middles” – a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds. This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants, arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.

Contents:

Introduction

The "good old days"

Children of the projects in quest of respectability

Suburban youth

"They're very nice, but...": encountering new foreign neighbors

A vote of the white lower classes?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

France des "petits-moyens". English.

ISBN:

1-80758-861-0

1-78533-229-5

OCLC:

1281712999