New Social Mobility Second Generation Pioneers in Europe

This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into hig...

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Autres auteurs: Schneider, Jens (Éditeur intellectuel), Crul, Maurice (Éditeur intellectuel), Pott, Andreas (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
Langue:anglais
Publié: Cham Springer Nature 2022
Collection:IMISCOE Research Series
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Résumé:This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researchers in nine European countries from Norway to Spain. Through these analyses, the book explores the possibilities of cross-country comparisons of how trajectories are related to different institutional arrangements at the national and local level. The analysis uncovers the interaction effects between structural/institutional settings and specific individual achievements and family backgrounds, and how these individuals responsed to and navigated successfully through sector-specific pathways into high-skilled professions, such as becoming a lawyer or a teacher. By this, it also explains why these trajectories of professional success and upward mobility have been so exceptional in the second generation of working-class origins, and it tells us a lot also about exclusion mechanisms that marked the school and professional careers of children of immigrants who went to school in the 1970s to 2000s in Europe - and still do.
Description matérielle:1 electronic resource (171 p.)
ISBN:978-3-031-05566-9
9783031055669
Accès:Open Access