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Muslims on the Decline?

About: Gayer, Laurent and Christophe Jaffelot (eds.), Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation, Oxford University Press.

by Nida Kirmani, 16 April

The increasing marginalisation and ghettoisation of Indian Muslims is a hotly debated but poorly understood subject. Gayer and Jaffrelot’s edited collection presents rich empirical evidence from (...)

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Exploiting the Urban Poor

About : Matthew Desmond, « Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty », American Journal of Sociology ; Alice Goffman, « On the run : Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto », American Sociological Review

by Nicolas Duvoux & translated by John Zvesper, 18 February

Although urban poverty in the USA is a subject that was largely absent from the 2012 American presidential campaign, it has reached very high levels. For a new generation of ethnographers now (...)

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Essays

Syria: Anatomy of a Revolution

by Leïla Vignal & translated by Arianne Dorval, 21 September 2012

The attention given today to the armed uprising in Syria must not conceal the fact that there also exists a peaceful revolutionary dynamic, which is deeply rooted in society. The new generations, (...)

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Retracing the Steps of the Poor

About: Jean-François Laé & Numa Murard, Deux générations dans la débine. Enquête dans la pauvreté ouvrière, Bayard

by Michel Kokoreff & translated by Arianne Dorval, 4 June 2012

Sociologists Jean-François Laé and Numa Murard have returned to the field where they previously conducted research on the poor and money. In contrast, their new book sheds light on the impact of (...)

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Essays

Chicago: A City on the Brink

by Andrew J. Diamond, 15 May 2012

Originally scheduled to host the next G8 summit, Chicago has been bypassed in favor of Camp David. No wonder: the “the city that works” works no more. With a terrible youth unemployment rate and (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Housing: Helping Those Who Really Need It

An Interview with Fanny Bugeja

by David Bornstein & Pauline Peretz & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 24 February 2012

It is neither simple nor cheap for French people to find housing, especially if they are young. This fuels social inequalities and recent programs, with their emphasis on homeownership, have made (...)

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Poverty Experts in the United States

About: Romain Huret, La fin de la pauvreté?, Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

by Jacques Rodriguez & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 26 January 2012

Is expertise about poverty possible in a country where the phenomenon itself is deemed morally perverse? In a recent book, Romain Huret analyzes the intellectual network that crystallized around (...)

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Dossiers

The Culture of Poverty

by Nicolas Duvoux, 19 July 2011

In the U.S., in France as well with Hugues Lagrange’s book on “the denial of cultures”, culture has again become the focus of poverty studies. Our dossier on “culture of poverty” reviews this new (...)

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Essays

The Active Solidarity Benefit and the Fight against Poverty

by Jean-Luc Outin & translated by John Zvesper, 1 June 2011

The economist Jean-Luc Outin reviews the history of welfare benefits in France, describes the issues surrounding the recent reform that combines the various benefits, and examines the potentially (...)

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A Sociologist in the Ghetto

About: S. Venkatesh, Off the Books, Harvard University Press.

by Jules Naudet & translated by Virginia Ricard, 11 April 2011

After several years of field work in a Chicago black ghetto, sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh gives a lively and thorough analysis of the survival strategies of its inhabitants. Halfway between (...)

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Lula: Father of the Poor?

by Frédéric Louault & translated by John Zvesper, 4 April 2011

Lula had promised to be the president of the poor, and with the help of favourable economic conditions, he was able to reduce poverty by raising and broadening social minima. However, unable to (...)

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The Precariousness Syndrome

About : Jean Furtos, De la précarité à l’auto-exclusion, Éditions Rue d’Ulm

by Nicolas Duvoux, 17 January 2011

While sociological and philosophical studies of social suffering are proliferating, the psychiatrist Jean Furtos casts a clinical eye on the relations between mental health and precariousness. He (...)

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Essays

The Collateral Victims of the RSA

by Hélène Périvier, 12 January 2011

The RSA (Active Solidarity Income) is supposed to reduce poverty by one third between now and 2012. It is based on the observation that work doesn’t pay enough to keep some people out of poverty. (...)

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Essays

Europe Is Afraid of Its Roma

by Jean-Baptiste Duez, 10 December 2010

Since the 1990s and the collapse of the Communist bloc, thousands of “Roma” have left Eastern Europe. Their arrival in the west, particularly France and Italy, has provoked strong negative (...)

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The Culture of Poverty Reconsidered

About: D. J. Harding, M. Lamont, M. L. Small, dir., Reconsidering Culture and Poverty, The Annals.

by Nicolas Duvoux, 6 October 2010

A special issue of the journal Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science edited by the American sociologists David J. Harding, Michèle Lamont, and Mario L. Small examines the (...)

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Benefits and costs of free trade for less developed countries

by Nina Pavcnik, 5 November 2009

Trade liberalization seems to have increased growth and income in developing countries over the past thirty years, through lower prices, firm-level efficiency gains and improved access to foreign (...)

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William T. Vollmann on Writing Poverty

by Nicolas Duvoux, 27 February 2009

Who or what is responsible for your condition? The rich? Destiny? Yourself? The American writer William T. Vollmann posed this question to poor people in every corner of the world. Part social (...)

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