This book 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."

Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo. Her recent books include Bourdieu and Social Space: Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements (2020) and the edited volume Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing (w/H. Wulff, 2024). She co-edits the book series Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology and is a former president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. She holds the title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, conferred by the French government.

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction

Chapter 1: London as a Space of Possibilities

Chapter 2: Emplacements and Dislocations

Chapter 3: Fieldwork in "Brexit Times"

Chapter 4: The French Emigration Apparatus

Chapter 5: French Imaginaries of London Life

Conclusion

References Cited

Index