| Edition |
English-language edition. |
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First paperback edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : color illustrations, color map |
| Series |
Anthropology of Europe ; volume 1
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Anthropology of Europe (Series) ; v. 1.
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| Note |
Originally published in French as: La France des "petits-moyens" : enquête sur la banlieue pavillonnaire [by] Marie Cartier [and others]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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? |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Suburbs -- France -- Gonesse.
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Suburban life -- France -- Gonesse.
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Middle class -- France -- Gonesse.
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Gonesse (France) -- Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. |
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Middle class |
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Social conditions |
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Suburban life |
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Suburbs |
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France -- Gonesse https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRjtThqp4VbYxxxH9QWc |
| Added Author |
Coutant, Isabelle, author.
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Masclet, Olivier, author.
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Siblot, Yasmine., author.
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Rogers, Juliette Radcliffe, translator.
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| Added Title |
France des "petits-moyens". English.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cartier, Marie. France of the little-middles. New York : Berghahn Books, [2016] 9781785332289 (DLC) 2016022448 |
| ISBN |
9781785332296 (electronic book) |
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1785332295 (electronic book) |
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9781785332289 (hardcover) |
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