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2016
- handle: 10670/1.6knktf
- isbn: 978-1-78533-228-9
- hal: hal-02421751
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Marie Cartier et al., « The France of the Little-Middles : A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10670/1.6knktf
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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.