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

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

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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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

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

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785332296
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 08/01/2016
Series: Anthropology of Europe , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 5 MB

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.


Isabelle Coutant is Researcher at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), based at IRIS (Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Social Issues). Her research concerns how working-class people relate to institutions and urban ethnography.


Olivier Masclet is Associate Professor at the University of Paris Descartes Sorbonne Paris Cité and a researcher at the Center for Research on Social Connections since 2006. His research focuses on the cultural dimensions of class differentiation and contemporary working-class lifestyles.


Yasmine Siblot is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 8, and is member of the research center CRESPPA-CSU (Urban Societies and Cultures) (CNRS-University of Paris 8). Her research interests lie in social class, political sociology and migration studies.

Table of Contents

Illustrations, Tables, and Maps
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The “Good Old Days”
Chapter 2. Children of the projects in quest of respectability
Chapter 3. Suburban Youth
Chapter 4. “They’re very nice, but…”: Encountering new foreign neighbors
Chapter 5. A vote of the white lower classes?

Appendices
Appendix I: Interviews cited in the book
Appendix II: Documents and sources

Bibliography
Index

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