02580nam 2200517 450 991080872780332120161214081415.01-78533-229-510.1515/9781785332296(CKB)3710000000971939(MiAaPQ)EBC4415194(DE-B1597)636585(DE-B1597)9781785332296(EXLCZ)99371000000097193920161226h20082008 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe France of the little-middles a suburban housing development in greater Paris /Marie Cartier [and three others] ; translated by Juliette Radcliffe RogersNew York, [New York] ;Oxford, [England] :berghahn,2008.©20081 online resource (224 pages)Anthropology of Europe ;11-78533-228-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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?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.SuburbsFranceGonesseSuburban lifeFranceGonesseMiddle classFranceGonesseSocial conditionsGonesse (France)Social conditionsSuburbsSuburban lifeMiddle classSocial conditions.307.740944/361Cartier Marie738501Cartier MarieMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808727803321The France of the little-middles3921749UNINA