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This book traces the lives of an emigrant Moroccan couple and their eight France-born children over several years. Through interviews with the family and others in their social world, it shows the ...
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  • 01 January 2027
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This book traces the lives of an emigrant Moroccan couple and their eight France-born children over several years. Through interviews with the family and others in their social world, it shows the power of life-story narratives to reveal true lived experience and social context.
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Price: $127.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Series: Advances in Biographical Research
Publication Date: 01 January 2027
ISBN: 9781447381273
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Migration, immigration and emigration
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Catherine Delcroix is Professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg.

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?

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