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Slootman Marieke, "Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates", Springer Nature, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99596-0, License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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.
Keywords
Social Sciences, Emigration And Immigration, Ethnicity, Citizenship—sociological Aspects, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology—research
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