Globalizing forms of elite sociability: varieties of cosmopolitanism in Paris social clubs

Cousin, Bruno; Chauvin, Sébastien

doi:10.1080/01419870.2014.934260

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“…For example, class homogamy and heterogamy are variously mitigated by nationality (Awondo 2016), given that a high-status nationality can diminish the relevance of class-based hurdles, especially in terms of accessing mobility, obtaining entry or securing legal residency. As we will see, very high economic or cultural resources can even allow for forms of mobility and multi-positionality that challenge the very notion of a national legal context (Cousin and Chauvin 2014).…”

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confidence: 94%

Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Chauvin

Robledo²,

Koren

et al. 2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Seeking to overcome the heterosexual bias in marriage-migration scholarship and move beyond individualistic approaches to queer mobility, this article focuses on the lives of same-sex couples that hold unequal residence statuses. In a twofold context marked by the increasing legal recognition of same-sex families combined with heightened hurdles facing certain categories of immigrants, we examine what those simultaneous trends mean for these couples. Based on 42 interviews conducted in France, the Netherlands and the United States with people from a variety of class backgrounds, we show how higher resource levels moderate the impact of constraining legal frameworks without suppressing them. We distinguish between low-resource homogamous, heterogamous, and high-resource homogamous couples. The first configuration often results in forced immobility and separation. In heterogamous couples, conjugality becomes a major pathway to legal status for the migrant spousepotentially feeding suspicions of instrumentality. In contrast, privileged migrants in a homogamous couple tend to relate to law in less of a binary way and experience regulations as more easily surmountable. Yet, for them, securing permanent residence represents but one objective among several (including their careers and studies), an investment often disconnected from their matrimonial relationship and at times in competition with it.

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confidence: 94%

Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Chauvin

Robledo²,

Koren

et al. 2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…The centrality of a few large Dutch cities in transnational networks may also result in increased sensitivity to international critique and positive attitudes towards living in an (ethnically) diverse society in those cities. Moreover, appreciation for cultural otherness and a sense of openness to the world are status‐related skills valued in different ways contingent on class and cultural backgrounds, themselves unevenly distributed in space (Bonnett ; Cousin and Chauvin ; Igarashi and Saito ; Jazeel ; Reay et al ; Weenink ).…”

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Race and the Pitfalls of Emotional Democracy: Primary Schools and the Critique of Black Pete in the Netherlands

Coenders

Chauvin

2017

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A centrepiece of the Dutch festival of Sinterklaas, the blackface character Black Pete, has met with growing contestation in the past decade over its caricatural representation of people of African descent. Attacks on this national “happy object” elicited a host of majority responses that converged in professing non‐racism. As the celebration is primarily thought of as a children's festival, schools across the Netherlands had to decide whether to maintain, alter or suppress the Black Pete character. This article considers the spatial politics of race that informed school decisions about the festival. We show geographical variation in the distribution between change and non‐change. However, we find that both strategies were justified in the name of respect for “black feelings”, even as majority calls for mutual tolerance between proponents and opponents of Black Pete normatively portrayed multicultural society as conflict free and ultimately strove to disarm anti‐racist critique by framing it as anti‐democratic.

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“…Particularly in Mosman, residents noted the important role of temporary migrants (expats) from various European countries and saw them as an important feature enriching the cultural mix. This form of cosmopolitanism can be interpreted as a mechanism of differentiation from lower classes, as was found in the French elite (Cousin & Chauvin, ).…”

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“…In the context of globalisation, some scholars have claimed that transnational managerial elites are becoming increasingly disembedded from the local (Castells, , 2009). For example, a recent French study examined cosmopolitanism among members of elite social clubs in Paris (Cousin & Chauvin, ). These elite members identified with cosmopolitanism as a form of distinction from lower classes and also from upper class individuals who owe their legitimacy to more strictly national resources.…”

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Cohesion and differentiation in Australia's elite suburbs

Wiesel

Levin

2017

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Toorak (Melbourne) and Mosman (Sydney) are two of the most affluent suburbs in Australia. The high costs of living and housing in these suburbs preserve their high status. Yet, in recent years, the growing presence of wealthy Chinese residents and investors has challenged longstanding Anglo‐Australian residents' perceptions of these suburbs as “European villages”. At the same time as new shared identities are being produced, feelings of resentment and anxiety are also increasingly being expressed through local urban planning conflicts related to density and heritage in residential development. Drawing on theories of “elite integration”, and interviews with 35 residents of the two suburbs the paper exposes a range of spatial, material, and discursive practices through which the Australian elite manages ethnic diversity within its suburban strongholds.

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Globalizing forms of elite sociability: varieties of cosmopolitanism in Paris social clubs

Cited by 32 publications

References 23 publications

Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Race and the Pitfalls of Emotional Democracy: Primary Schools and the Critique of Black Pete in the Netherlands

Cohesion and differentiation in Australia's elite suburbs

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