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Deborah Reed-Danahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)
Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it charts a set of middle-class aspirations that lead people to move to a nearby nation that is similar in wealth and social indicators - a type of horizontal relocation that it terms "sideways migration." It chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of French middle-class citizens who moved to London during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork over a ten-year period, this book engages at length…
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