Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates

• Autor Principal: Slootman, Marieke (Author)
• Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Formato: Electrónico eBook
• Idioma: inglés
• Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edición: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series,
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Race.; Political sociology.; Social structure.; Equality.; Sociology > Methodology.; Human Migration.; Race and Ethnicity Studies.; Political Sociology.; Social Structure.; Sociological Methods.
• Acceso en liña: Link to Metadata

Summary

Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification among social climbers with ethnic minority backgrounds. Using both survey data and open interviews with these 'minority climbers', the study details the contextual and temporal nature of identification. The results illustrate how ethnicity is contextual but have tangible and inescapable effects at the same time. Also the findings call for a more reflexive use of terms like ethnic ingroup/outgroup and bonding/bridging. Overall, the book helps us understand the emergence of middle-class segments that articulate their minority identities and as such it will be of great interest to academics, policy makers and all those interested in processes of integration and/or diversity.

Descrición Física

XV, 202 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.

ISBN

9783319995960

ISSN

2364-4095

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-99596-0

Acceso

Open Access