Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Marieke Slootman

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-11
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieIMISCOE Research Series
Antal sidor202
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030076139

Tillhör följande kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhalle och politik
Politik och statsskick inom Samhalle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhalle och politik
Migration inom Samhalle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Marieke Slootman is a researcher and lecturer at the department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She earned her PhD (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam. The Dutch Sociological Association (NSV) awarded her dissertation with the prize for Best Sociological Dissertation written at a Dutch University in 2013/2014. Slootman’s research focuses on processes of minoritization and exclusion, processes of identification and social mobility, and on diversity in educational institutions.

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.

“The appropriate audience for Slootman’s Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates, may include scholars and policy experts dealing with ethnic identity, migration, nationalism, assimilation, integration or multiculturalism. For academicians, policy makers and lay readers alike, the book provides a nuanced perspective from the vantage point of ethnic migrants towards understanding ethnic minority identity and national integration.” (Maguipuinamei Rejoyson Thangal, Psychological Studies, Vol. 65 (3), 2020)