| Description |
1 online resource (175 pages). |
| Series |
IMISCOE research series |
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IMISCOE research series.
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| Access |
Open access. GW5XE |
| Contents |
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 Norways second generation -- Chapter 7. New Social Mobility: pioneers and their potentials for change. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 13, 2022). |
| Local Note |
Springer Nature Springer Nature Open Access eBooks |
| Subject |
Social mobility -- Europe.
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Social mobility. (OCoLC)fst01122648
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Added Author |
Schneider, Jens, 1962-
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Crul, Maurice.
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Pott, Andreas.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schneider, Jens. New Social Mobility. Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, ©2022 9783031055652 |
| ISBN |
9783031055669 (electronic book) |
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3031055667 (electronic book) |
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3031055659 |
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9783031055652 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-031-05566-9 doi |
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