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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: address in Paris
    sub title: emplacement, bureaucracy, and belonging in West African hostels
  name:
    name part: Mbodj-Pouye, Aïssatou
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "In present-day Paris, dozens of brand-new buildings, each housing up to 300 individuals, are replacing foyers - a typically French form of housing designed for single male labor migrants in the late colonial period. This is part of a nationwide scheme targeting West African migrants' integration into the French Republic. The new buildings are distinct from the previous structures in that they provide autonomous studios instead of multiple rooms for each resident, offer fewer collective spaces, and are designed with the prospect of housing an ethnically diverse population. Rather than a smooth transition from dilapidated structures to better accommodations however, the process has been fraught with tensions, stirring deep debates on the future of the West African presence in France. Taking the present effort to integrate West Africans as a starting point for the investigation of what is a 60-year-old colonial story, in An Address in Paris Aïssatou Mbodj examines the ruptures and continuities in the life of the West African immigrants in France. More specifically, she explores how the foyers became the migration infrastructure through administrative actors in charge of migration and urban policies and migrants themselves. Scrutinizing the physical and social evolution of these structures, the book combines a history of postcolonial migration and French cities with accounts of the lives of generations of immigrant men. She argues that the foyers are spaces where an original sense of emplacement is forged. Through nine chapters organized into three parts, Mbodj weaves together historical accounts and ethnographic descriptions, demonstrating that diverging chronologies and disputed understandings of the foyers' creation lie at the heart of present-day tensions. In conclusion, she provides a counterpoint to the common image of an urban exclusion of Black communities and draws attention the constrained yet politically effective agency made possible by a shared life in the…
  table of contents: Improvising the foyers: Franco-African institutions of migration (1958-1967) -- Modern buildings : political challenges, administrative anxieties, and the consolidation of the foyer system (1968-1979) -- Performance and decay : African foyers, from solution to problem (1980s-1990s) -- Tolerated bonds : living together in the foyers -- When will the foyers end? Contentions renovations and temporal disjunctions -- Acknowledging solidarity : bureaucratic relatedness, hosting practices, and exclusionary dynamics -- Foyermen. Class, gender, and race across generations -- Eroded emplacement. Urban incorporation, containment policies, and the politics of belonging -- Focal points : reflections from the foyers.
  note: Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: West Africans
    geographic: France
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: West Africans
    topic: Dwellings
    geographic: France
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: France
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Black people
    geographic: France
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: France
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    geographic: France
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Africains de l'Ouest
    geographic: France
    topic: Conditions sociales
  subject:
    topic: Personnes noires
    geographic: France
    topic: Conditions sociales
  subject:
    topic: Black people
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    geographic: France
  classification: DC718.A34 M36 2023
  classification: 305.896/6044
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Black lives in the diaspora
  identifier: 9780231211420
  identifier: 0231211422
  identifier: 9780231211437
  identifier: 0231211430
  identifier: 9780231558907
  identifier: 2023014398
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR
    record creation date: 230603
    record change date: 20250318214652.6
    record identifier: in00004770509
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng