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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 these trajectories 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.
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Keywords
- 2nd generation pioneers in law, business, medicine and education
- Access to high-prestige jobs
- Comparative qualitative research
- Professional success and upward social mobility
- second generation immigrants
- Second generation of working-class family origins
- Social mobility and institutional contexts
- Social mobility in immigrant families
- Social mobility opportunities and exclusion
- Trajectories of professional success
- Upward social mobility among children of immigrants in Europe
- Young people in high-prestige professions
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05566-9Editions