Becoming middle class : young people's migration between urban centres in Ethiopia / Markus Roos Breines.
2021
HB2122.A3 B74 2021eb
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Title
Becoming middle class : young people's migration between urban centres in Ethiopia / Markus Roos Breines.
ISBN
9789811635373 (electronic book)
9811635374 (electronic book)
9789811635366
9811635366
9811635374 (electronic book)
9789811635366
9811635366
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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10.1007/978-981-16-3537-3 doi
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HB2122.A3 B74 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.20963
Summary
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.
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 people's 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 people's 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.
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 people's 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 people's 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.
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Globalization, urbanization and development in Africa
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Pursuing progress
Chapter 3 Higher education and economic mobility
Chapter 4 Being educated
Chapter 5 Managing enhanced capital
Chapter 6 Ethnic hierarchies
Chapter 7 A middle class rooted in urban-to-urban migration
Postscript.
Chapter 2 Pursuing progress
Chapter 3 Higher education and economic mobility
Chapter 4 Being educated
Chapter 5 Managing enhanced capital
Chapter 6 Ethnic hierarchies
Chapter 7 A middle class rooted in urban-to-urban migration
Postscript.