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.
| ISBN: | 9783030076139 |
| Publication date: | 11th January 2019 |
| Author: | Marieke Slootman |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Series: | IMISCOE Research Series |
| Genres: |
Migration, immigration and emigration Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Population and migration geography Sociology Social groups, communities and identities Politics and government |
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.
Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates features in the following genres: Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Population and migration geography, Sociology, Social groups, communities and identities, Politics and government
Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates is available in Paperback, Hardback
Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates was written by Marieke Slootman and published by Springer an imprint of Springer International Publishing
Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates has 202 pages
Yes it is part of IMISCOE Research Series series