Author : Marie Cartier,Isabelle Coutant,Olivier Masclet,Yasmine Siblot
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785332296
The France of the Little-Middles by Marie Cartier,Isabelle Coutant,Olivier Masclet,Yasmine Siblot Pdf
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.