An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants Mbodj-Pouye Assatou
An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants Mbodj-Pouye Assatou After West African migrants arrived in France in the 1960s, the authorities…
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An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants Mbodj-Pouye Assatou
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. She shows how migrants settled in foyers through kinship ties, making these buildings key parts of 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.Assatou 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.