@article{1438669,
      recid = {1438669},
      author = {Breines, Markus Roos,},
      title = {Becoming middle class : young people's migration between  urban centres in Ethiopia /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) :},
      abstract = {This is a fascinating case study of the physical geography  related to social upward mobility. It explores urban to  urban migration in two Ethiopian cities, shaping distinct  features of a lifestyle, thereby tracing the unconscious  formation of a specific identity and social group. An  important contribution to the current debate on African  middle classes. Professor Henning Melber, University of  Pretoria, University of the Free State and Nordic Africa  Institute This is a richly informed, empirically grounded,  sensitive and refreshingly innovative addition to our  understanding of the nuanced complexities of being middle  class in Africa, and of the importance of class in  comprehending migration as a differential experience.  Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology,  University of Cape Town, South Africa This book is an  ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in  middle-class formation in Ethiopia. Through an examination  of the intersections and tensions between physical movement  and social mobility, it considers how young Tigrayan  peoples migration between urban centres made them distinct  from both international migrants and non-migrants. Based on  fieldwork in Adigrat and Addis Ababa, it focuses on these  young peoples notions of progress, experiences of higher  education and ethnic tensions to demonstrate how their  movements enabled them to enhance their economic, social  and symbolic capital while their cultural capital remained  largely unchanged. The book provides new insights into the  opportunities and constraints for upward social mobility  and argues that the emergence of shared characteristics  among urban-to-urban migrants led to the formation of a  group that can be described as a middle class in Ethiopia.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1438669},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3537-3},
}