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Author Cartier, Marie, author.

Title The France of the little-middles : a suburban housing development in greater Paris / Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet, and Yasmine Siblot ; translated by Juliette Radcliffe Rogers
Edition English-language edition
First paperback edition
Published New York : Berghahn Books, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : color illustrations, color map
Series Anthropology of Europe ; volume 1
Anthropology of Europe (Series) ; v. 1.
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?
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
Notes Originally published in French as: La France des "petits-moyens" : enquête sur la banlieue pavillonnaire [by] Marie Cartier [and others]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the French
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 22, 2022)
Subject Suburbs -- France -- Gonesse
Suburban life -- France -- Gonesse
Middle class -- France -- Gonesse
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Middle class
Social conditions
Suburban life
Suburbs
Soziale Klasse
Kleinbürger
Migrationshintergrund
Soziale Mobilität
Gemeinschaftsgefühl
SUBJECT Gonesse (France) -- Social conditions
Subject France -- Gonesse
Frankreich
Paris -- Region
Form Electronic book
Author Coutant, Isabelle, author.
Masclet, Olivier, author.
Siblot, Yasmine., author
Rogers, Juliette Radcliffe, translator
LC no. 2016032079
ISBN 9781785332296
1785332295
OTHER TI France des "petits-moyens". English