Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

2021-11-19T06:00:00Z

Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner's research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society. In this interview, she returns to the notion of international capital, which she used in her work to shed light on inequalities relating to mobility, particularly in her pioneering survey of “expat” executives in France.
Where does your interest in upper-class migration come from, and what do you see as the contribution made by work on this subject?
When I began my PhD

- Interviews / mobility, expatriation, globalization, social class, upper classes, migrants, immigration, migration, school, education, inequalities

(Re-)Inventing self-build housing in Strasbourg

Anne Debarre & Hélène Steinmetz & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-10-17T04:45:00Z

In the world of alternative housing, Strasbourg is an important player. Here, Anne Debarre and Hélène Steinmetz describe the stimulating process that has given rise to a growing number of self-build housing developments in and around the city.
---- Series: Mutual Housing Among the nebulous body of alternative housing projects that have emerged since 2000, the initiatives in Strasbourg stand out from the crowd for a number of reasons. In a context where a growing array of vocabulary is used to

- From the Field / participation, housing, alternative housing, Strasbourg, self-build, eco-neighborhood

Metropolitics

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

(Re-)Inventing self-build housing in Strasbourg