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Autore |
Cartier Marie |
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Titolo |
The France of the little-middles : a suburban housing development in greater Paris / / Marie Cartier [and three others] ; translated by Juliette Radcliffe Rogers |
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : berghahn, , 2008 |
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©2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Collana |
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Anthropology of Europe ; ; 1 |
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Soggetti |
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Suburbs - France - Gonesse |
Suburban life - France - Gonesse |
Middle class - France - Gonesse - Social conditions |
Gonesse (France) Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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