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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, who made it into high-prestige professions. The 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 achievements and family backgrounds, and how these individuals responsed to and navigated successfully through sector-specific pathways into high-skilled professions, such as becoming a lawyer or a teacher. By this, it also explains why thesetrajectories 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.
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 Norway's second generation.- Chapter 7. New Social Mobility: pioneers and their potentials for change.
