The France of the little-middles : a suburban housing development in greater Paris / / Marie Cartier [and three others] ; translated by Juliette Radcliffe Rogers

• Autore: Cartier Marie
• Pubblicazione: New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : berghahn, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.740944/361
• Soggetto topico: Suburbs - France - Gonesse; Suburban life - France - Gonesse; Middle class - France - Gonesse - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Gonesse (France) Social conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): CartierMarie
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The France of the little-middles
• ISBN: 1-78533-229-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808727803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II