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Record Nr.

UNINA9910580292703321

Autore

Schneider Jens

Titolo

New Social Mobility : Second Generation Pioneers in Europe / / edited by Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul, Andreas Pott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-031-05566-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 pages)

Collana

IMISCOE Research Series, , 2364-4095

Classificazione

BUS038000SOC007000SOC026000

Altri autori (Persone)

CrulMaurice

PottAndreas

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Labor economics

Population - Economic aspects

Industrial sociology

Human Migration

Sociology of Migration

Labor and Population Economics

Sociology of Work

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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 Norway’s second generation -- Chapter 7. New Social Mobility: pioneers and their potentials for change.

Sommario/riassunto

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.