An Address in Paris - Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye

An Address in Paris

Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants
Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2023
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-21142-0 (ISBN)
145,90 inkl. MwSt
After West African migrants arrived in France in the 1960s, the authorities opened residences for them known as “foyers.” Initially intended to contain the West African population, these hostels for single men fostered the emergence of Black communities in the heart of Paris and other cities. More recently, however, a nationwide renovation program sought to replace the collective living arrangements of foyers with more individualized spaces by constructing new buildings or drastically reshaping existing ones—and casting the West African presence as a threat to French identity.

Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African migrants, weaving together rich ethnographic description with a critical historical account. She shows how migrants settled in foyers through kinship ties, making these buildings key parts of diasporic networks. Migrants also forged a sense of place in foyers, in an intricate relationship with bureaucratic requirements such as having an address. Mbodj-Pouye scrutinizes the physical and social evolution of foyers and the administrative dynamics that governed them. She argues that even though these buildings originated in state attempts to manage migrants along racial lines, the shared way of life that they encouraged helped spark a sense of political agency and belonging whose significance extends far beyond their walls.

Combining close attention to the social and cultural meanings of the foyers and keenly observed portraits of Black experiences in France across decades, An Address in Paris offers a new lens on the global African diaspora.

Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye is a research fellow in anthropology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.

Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Communities in the Making
1. Improvising the Foyers: Franco-African Institutions of Migration (1958–1967)
2. Modern Buildings: Political Challenges, Administrative Anxieties, and the Consolidation of the Foyer System (1968–1979)
3. Permanence and Decay: African Foyers, from Solution to Problem (1980s–1990s)
Part II. Partial Endings
4. Tolerated Bonds: Living Together in the Foyers
5. When Will the Foyers End? Contentious Renovations and Temporal Disjunctions
6. Acknowledging Solidarity: Bureaucratic Relatedness, Hosting Practices, and Exclusionary Dynamics
Part III. Ambivalent Attachments, Contested Belonging
7. Foyermen: Class, Gender, and Race Across Generations
8. Eroded Emplacement: Urban Incorporation, Containment Policies, and the Politics of Belonging
9. Focal Points: Reflections from the Foyers
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
Zusatzinfo 17 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-231-21142-2 / 0231211422
ISBN-13 978-0-231-21142-0 / 9780231211420
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