Grandir en résidence fermée. L’expansion des espaces privés dans un quartier résidentiel de Madrid

Different types of residential neighbourhoods have proliferated in our cities. But what does growing up in a gated community mean to children, and for childhood? The analysis is based on an ethnography in a neighbourhood in Madrid. First, we will address the articulation of a kind of “inner life”, where the family takes centre stage and where exclusive services function as tools to control the residents. This expansion of the private and the domestic bears consequences for children. We will then address the strategies adopted by families when it comes to residence and school. Controlled socialisation takes place, with social groups that are recognised and understood as similar. All of this forms part of the strategies of social reproduction that families of residents of working-class origins deploy in an attempt to improve their living conditions.