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Book/Printed Material Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates

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Title

  • Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates

Summary

  • 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.

Names

  • Slootman, Marieke, author.

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.

Contents

  • 1. Ethnic-Minority Climbers. Winning the Golden Calf -- 2. Studying Ethnic Identification. Tools and Theories -- 3. A Mixed-Methods Approach -- 4. The Dutch Integration Landscape -- 5. Self-identifications Explored. 'Am I Dutch? Yes. Am I Moroccan? Yes' -- 6. Identifications in Social Contexts. 'I am... who I am -- 7. Trajectories of Reinvention. Soulmates and a 'Minority Culture of Mobility' -- 8. Ethnic Identity and Social Mobility. Wrapping up -- Appendix A: Interview Guide -- Appendix B: Table Chapter 4 -- Appendix C: Tables Chapter 5.

Headings

  • -  Citizenship--Sociological aspects
  • -  Emigration and immigration
  • -  Ethnicity
  • -  Social inequality
  • -  Social structure
  • -  Sociology--Research
  • -  Migration
  • -  Ethnicity Studies
  • -  Research Methodology
  • -  Social Structure, Social Inequality
  • -  Sociology of Citizenship

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  Social Sciences (R0) (SpringerNature-43726)
  • -  Social Sciences (SpringerNature-41176)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XV, 202 pages 2 illustrations, 1 illustrations in color.)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019768557

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access
  • Open Access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Slootman, Marieke, Author. Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer, 2018. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019768557/.

APA citation style:

Slootman, M. (2018) Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019768557/.

MLA citation style:

Slootman, Marieke, Author. Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer, 2018. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019768557/>.