Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye

An Address in Paris

Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231211420
• ISBN-10: 0231211422
• Artikelnr.: 68271542

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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