LEADER 04046nam 22006255 450 001 9910494560303321 005 20230810230522.0 010 $a981-16-3537-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-16-3537-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011994634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6688950 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6688950 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-16-3537-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011994634 100 $a20210802d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBecoming Middle Class $eYoung People?s Migration between Urban Centres in Ethiopia /$fby Markus Roos Breines 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) 225 1 $aGlobalization, Urbanization and Development in Africa,$x2752-3284 311 $a981-16-3536-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $a?This is a fascinating case study of the physical geography related to social upward mobility. It explores urban to urban migration in two Ethiopian cities, shaping distinct features of a lifestyle, thereby tracing the unconscious formation of a specific identity and social group. An important contribution to the current debate on African middle classes.? ?Professor Henning Melber, University of Pretoria, University of the Free State and Nordic Africa Institute ?This is a richly informed, empirically grounded, sensitive and refreshingly innovative addition to our understanding of the nuanced complexities of being middle class in Africa, and of the importance of class in comprehending migration as a differential experience.? ?Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia. Through an examination of the intersections and tensions between physical movement and social mobility, it considers how young Tigrayan people?s migration between urban centres made them distinct from both international migrants and non-migrants. Based on fieldwork in Adigrat and Addis Ababa, it focuses on these young people?s notions of progress, experiences of higher education and ethnic tensions to demonstrate how their movements enabled them to enhance their economic, social and symbolic capital while their cultural capital remained largely unchanged. The book provides new insights into the opportunities and constraints for upward social mobility and argues that the emergence of shared characteristics among urban-to-urban migrants led to the formation of a group that can be described as a middle class in Ethiopia. 410 0$aGlobalization, Urbanization and Development in Africa,$x2752-3284 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects 606 $aHuman Geography 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aDevelopment Studies 606 $aSociology of Migration 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects. 615 14$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aAnthropology. 615 24$aDevelopment Studies. 615 24$aSociology of Migration. 676 $a304.8 700 $aBreines$b Markus Roos$0846199 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494560303321 996 $aBecoming Middle Class$92244896 997 $aUNINA