Precarity and Parenthood

The Biographical Story of the Nours, a Moroccan Family in France
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-4473-8127-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Advances in Biographical Research

This landmark study follows the Nour family – a Moroccan immigrant couple and their eight French-born children – for more than a decade, offering an intimate and unflinching portrait of migration, resilience and inequality.

Through sustained ethnographic observation and life-story interviews with family members, neighbours, teachers, magistrates and social workers, Catherine Delcroix demonstrates the extraordinary analytical power of the in-depth case study. Drawing on Norbert Elias’ concept of configuration, she illuminates intergenerational and gender dynamics within the family, while revealing how public policy shapes – and often distorts – the lives of those it purports to serve.

A classic text, this book has been translated in several languages but never made available in English until now. It will appeal to anyone who seeks a richer understanding of the immigrant experience – and makes a compelling case for life-story narratives as an indispensable tool in qualitative social research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delcroix, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Ann Phoenix

Introduction

Introducing members of the Nour family

Part I: Childhood memories

1. From one generation to the next

2. The children's voices

3. Building the children's self

Part II: Marital life and the balanced budget

4. The end of Amin's working life

5. Domestic problems

Part III: Becoming Adults

6. Rachid’s psychosis

7. Djamel: delinquency and prison

8. Leïla finds herself: university studies

9. Driss: job hunting

10. The special youth job agency: helping young people or making society safe?

11. Racism and its interactivity

Conclusion

Afterword by Leïla

Postface: Acting in a situation of discredit.

New postface: Ten years on, what has become of them?

Blibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Delcroix, Catherine
Catherine Delcroix is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg. She is a member of the International Migration, Spaces and Societies (Migrinter) research group (CNRS/University of Poitiers) and a fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations, and runs the Migreval research project.