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Youth Transitions among Descendants of Turkish Immigrants in Amsterdam and Strasbourg: : A Generation in Transition
Elif Keskiner
2019
This open access book maps the youth transitions of descendants of migrants from Turkey living in Amsterdam and Strasbourg, through a comparative mixed-methods research design. As such, it is of interest to discussions in youth sociology, social mobility and second-generation research. The book follows transition trajectories of the second-generation, from school to activity or inactivity in the labour market, to marriage or further study and, deepens our understanding of transitions by unravelling the macro and micro mechanisms behind individual pathways. On the one hand, the author reveals the ongoing significance of distinct macro institutional settings as well as social structures such as social class, ethnicity and gender in shaping the youth transition experience. On the other, she shows that youth transitions are not predestined to social reproduction when institutional and social structures create conditions for the development of resources necessary for social mobility. Therefore, through an examination of how immigrants’ descendants develop forms of capital in their social trajectories, in relation to institutional and social structures, the book advances the theoretical discussion on Bourdieu’s capital theory. Moreover, in times when native-born descendants of immigrants are at the forefront of public debate being subjected to normative integration demands, the book significantly shifts the lens and draws our attention to the daily challenges and realities faced by ethnic minority youth.
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Keywords
- Comparative research and mixed-methods
- Descendants migrants from Turkey
- Education and sociology
- Educational sociology
- Emigration and immigration
- Family
- Forms of capital
- Intersections of social class, gender and ethnicity
- Migration, immigration & emigration
- Second generation migrant youth
- Social groups
- Social Inequality
- Social issues & processes
- Social sciences
- Social structure
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- Sociology: family & relationships
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships
- Turkish second generation
- Vulnerable ethnic minority youth
- Youth transitions
Links
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11790-0web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-11790-0
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