The France of the Little-Middles : : A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris / / Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet, Yasmine Siblot.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Cartier, Marie,; Coutant, Isabelle,; Masclet, Olivier,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology of Europe ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND TABLES --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION. FROM PETIT-BOURGEOIS TO LITTLE-MIDDLE Studying Small Social Mobility --; CHAPTER 1 THE “GOOD OLD DAYS” --; CHAPTER 2 CHILDREN OF THE PROJECTS IN QUEST OF RESPECTABILITY --; CHAPTER 3 SUBURBAN YOUTH --; CHAPTER 4 “THEY’RE VERY NICE, BUT . . .”: ENCOUNTERING NEW FOREIGN NEIGHBORS --; CHAPTER 5 A VOTE OF THE WHITE LOWER CLASSES? --; APPENDIX 1 INTERVIEWS CITED IN THE BOOK --; APPENDIX 2 DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785332296; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785332296?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet, Yasmine Siblot.

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.