Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye is a research fellow in anthropology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.

Mbodj-Pouye's pathbreaking book is an exquisite close reading of foyers in Paris. The residents of these dormitories, West African men, take center stage as key interlocutors who have shaped and challenged state efforts to manage their homes and their bodies. An Address in Paris is precisely the kind of careful, empirical, and rigorous scholarship that demonstrates how race—as a social construct—necessarily intersects with other categories such as gender, space, and citizenship.

• AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Communities in the Making1. Improvising the Foyers: Franco-African Institutions of Migration (1958–1967)2. Modern Buildings: Political Challenges, Administrative Anxieties, and the Consolidation of the Foyer System (1968–1979)3. Permanence and Decay: African Foyers, from Solution to Problem (1980s–1990s)Part II. Partial Endings4. Tolerated Bonds: Living Together in the Foyers5. When Will the Foyers End? Contentious Renovations and Temporal Disjunctions6. Acknowledging Solidarity: Bureaucratic Relatedness, Hosting Practices, and Exclusionary DynamicsPart III. Ambivalent Attachments, Contested Belonging7. Foyermen: Class, Gender, and Race Across Generations8. Eroded Emplacement: Urban Incorporation, Containment Policies, and the Politics of Belonging9. Focal Points: Reflections from the FoyersAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography

Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye is a research fellow in anthropology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.

Mbodj-Pouye's pathbreaking book is an exquisite close reading of foyers in Paris. The residents of these dormitories, West African men, take center stage as key interlocutors who have shaped and challenged state efforts to manage their homes and their bodies. An Address in Paris is precisely the kind of careful, empirical, and rigorous scholarship that demonstrates how race—as a social construct—necessarily intersects with other categories such as gender, space, and citizenship.

• AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Communities in the Making1. Improvising the Foyers: Franco-African Institutions of Migration (1958–1967)2. Modern Buildings: Political Challenges, Administrative Anxieties, and the Consolidation of the Foyer System (1968–1979)3. Permanence and Decay: African Foyers, from Solution to Problem (1980s–1990s)Part II. Partial Endings4. Tolerated Bonds: Living Together in the Foyers5. When Will the Foyers End? Contentious Renovations and Temporal Disjunctions6. Acknowledging Solidarity: Bureaucratic Relatedness, Hosting Practices, and Exclusionary DynamicsPart III. Ambivalent Attachments, Contested Belonging7. Foyermen: Class, Gender, and Race Across Generations8. Eroded Emplacement: Urban Incorporation, Containment Policies, and the Politics of Belonging9. Focal Points: Reflections from the FoyersAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography