ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates rent strikes throughout the Paris region through the Ivry rent strike, which represented another type of political activism and protest undertaken by West African immigrants in the late 1960s and 1970s. Orchestrated by residents, strikes in dormitories throughout Paris demonstrated how African immigrants could use a variety of different political tactics in an effort to draw attention to and improve their living conditions. Yet these strikes often ended in the participants’ relocation and dispersal—a solution that African residents adamantly opposed because it broke up the sense of community that developed within the foyer itself.
