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The France of the Little-Middles: A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

The France of the Little-Middles: A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

Hardcover

Series: Anthropology of Europe, Book 1

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1785332287
ISBN13: 9781785332289
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Aug 1 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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