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Neighbours of passage : a microhistory of migrants in a Paris tenement, 1882-1932 /

"The book is a sociocultural microhistory of migrants. From the 1880s to the 1930s, it traces the lives of the occupants of a housing complex located just north of the French capital, in the heart of the Plaine-Saint-Denis. Starting in the 1870s, that industrial suburb became a magnet for worki...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Langrognet, Fabrice (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Series:Microhistories.
Subjects:
Immigrants > France > Saint-Denis > Social conditions > 19th century.
Immigrants > France > Saint-Denis > Social conditions > 20th century.
Tenement houses > France > Saint-Denis.
Saint-Denis-la-Plaine, France > History > 19th century.
Saint-Denis-la-Plaine, France > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Tenement houses.
France > Saint-Denis.
1800-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene
  • A carousel of neighbours
  • Consequential crossings
  • Chains of migration
  • Positive relationships
  • Confrontations
  • Of states and tenants
  • A war-torn tenement.