Strategic Investments in Multiple Middle Classes
Morals and Mobility between Paris and Dakar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3751186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yount-André, Yount-André Yount-André (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 89 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/africatoday.66.3_4.05 |
| OpenAlex | W3046182346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This article examines the social work of maintaining middle-class status in multiple national contexts, focusing on university-educated Senegalese in Paris. Once considered elite African intellectuals, these Senegalese find that diplomas no longer protect them from stigmatization in France. While Senegalese increasingly associate Islam with lucrative paths to mobility, in France, religion is treated as a barrier to belonging. French fluency and formal education index status in Senegal and facilitate integration in France, whereas religion is a key point of divergence between French and Senegalese notions of class, complicating efforts to achieve status transnationally. I argue that investments in multiple middle classes are complicated by a growing political and economic distance between Senegal and its former colonizer, showing how the symbols and stakes of middle-classness shift with national context and political–economic transformations
Context (archaeology) · Divergence (linguistics) · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Geography · Islam · Middle class · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics) · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Religion, Society, and Development
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |