1st Edition

Neighbours of Passage A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris Tenement, 1882–1932

By Fabrice Langrognet Copyright 2022
216 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The French edition of Neighbours of Passage has been awarded Le Grand Prix des Rendez-vous de l'histoire 2024 . 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... Read more

Introduction

PART I: CHANGING PLACES

Chapter 1: Setting the scene

Chapter 2: A carousel of neighbours

Chapter 3: Consequential crossings

Chapter 4: Chains of migration

PART II: INTERACTIONS AND ALLEGIANCES

Chapter 5: Positive relationships

Chapter 6: Confrontations

Chapter 7: Of states and tenants

Chapter 8: A war-torn tenement

Conclusion

Sources

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Fabrice Langrognet, Ph.D. (Cambridge, History, 2019), is a Leverhulme EC research fellow at the University of Oxford, an associate researcher at the Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains (University of Paris 1/CNRS) and a fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations. He specialises in migration history.