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Title
New social mobility : second generation pioneers in Europe / Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul, Andreas Pott, editors.
ISBN
9783031055669 (electronic bk.)
3031055667 (electronic bk.)
3031055659
9783031055652
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (175 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-05566-9 doi
Call Number
HN380.Z9
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.5/13
Summary
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, but raised in Europe who made it into high-prestige professions. These 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 factors and family backgrounds, and how these successful individuals responsed to and navigated 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.
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Open access.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 13, 2022).
Series
IMISCOE research series.
Chapter 1. Producing pathways to success: new perspectives on social mobility
Chapter 2. Data, Methods and Comparisons
Chapter 3
Setting the stage: being successful and negotiating new (mainstream) identities
Chapter 4. Becoming successful in the business and law sectors: institutional structures and individual resources
Chapter 5. Teachers of immigrant origin: contextual factors and resource mobilisation in professional life
Chapter 6. Becoming elite in an egalitarian context: pathways to law and medicine among Norways second generation
Chapter 7. New Social Mobility: pioneers and their potentials for change.
