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OverviewAfter 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aïssatou Mbodj-PouyePublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231211437ISBN 10: 0231211430 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 07 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAbbreviations 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 IndexReviewsMbodj-Pouye's path-breaking book is an exquisite close reading of foyers in Paris. The residents of these dormitories, West African men, take center-stage as key interlocutors who have shaped and challenged state efforts to manage their homes and their bodies. An Address in Paris is precisely the kind of careful, empirical, and rigorous scholarship that demonstrates how race—as a social construct—necessarily intersects with other categories such as gender, space, and citizenship. -- Minayo Nasiali, author of <i>Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille Since 1945</i> Author InformationAïssatou Mbodj-Pouye is a research fellow in anthropology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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