Do the poor arouse today, among the rich, a repulsion similar to that which the people inspired in the bourgeoisie in the nineteenth century? In other words, are the poor still considered a dangerous, immoral and repulsive class?By questioning the refusal of residential diversity manifested by the higher categories, this is the frontal question posed by this work, resulting from a major comparative study on the perceptions of poverty and inequalities in the beautiful neighborhoods of three metropolises: Paris, São Paulo and Delhi. From in-depth interviews, he shows that the quest for self-esteem of the inhabitants of the golden ghettos is not only motivated by a search for prestige and quality of life, but also by representations of the poor who encourage them to protect yourself from it. How do they manage to justify their strategies of avoiding and relegating disadvantaged categories, as well as legitimizing the local order they are trying to perpetuate? Beyond the fear of crime and insalubrity appears the fear of the elites of being in some way contaminated by lifestyles deemed culturally undesirable or morally harmful.Through the mechanisms of social separatism, it is the conditions of possibility of solidarity that this essay explores. Serge Paugam, research director at CNRS and director of studies at EHESS, Bruno Cousin, assistant professor at Sciences Po, Camila Giorgetti, associate researcher at the Maurice Halbwachs Center, and Jules Naudet, researcher at CNRS, are sociologists.

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