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

The France of the Little-Middles: A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris Hardback - 2016

by Marie Cartier

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Hardback. New. The authors examine tensions within the Poplars housing development in Paris less as 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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  • Title The France of the Little-Middles: A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris
  • Author Marie Cartier
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berghahn Books
  • Date 2016-08-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781785332289
  • ISBN 9781785332289 / 1785332287
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Demographic Orientation: Suburban
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects Suburbs - France - Gonesse, Suburban life - France - Gonesse
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016022448
  • Dewey Decimal Code 307.740

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From the publisher

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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About the author

Marie Cartier is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nantes, researcher at CENS (Nantes Sociology Center, CNRS-University of Nantes). She is a former Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She combines ethnography and history to study the transformations of the working-class through employment and living spaces.