Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice: Turkish-Germans in Berlin

ISBN-13: 9780367596996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Christine Barwick

Opis

What are the consequences of staying in or moving out of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood? In European urban sociology, research has mostly focused either on lower class ethnic minorities, or on white ethnic majority middle classes. By contrast, studies on upwardly mobile ethnic minorities are scarce, a gap that this book fills by lo

Spis treści

Introduction; The minority culture of mobility: Turkish-Germans in Berlin; Strong hybrid identities in the face of equally strong stereotypes; Should I stay or should I go? Motives for residential choice; Neighbourhood use in functionally and ethnically diverse neighbourhoods; Coming to terms with a new neighbourhood: neighbourhood use after moving; Place, network diversity and social closure; The flow of resources between neighbourhoods and social groups; Conclusion; Annex

O autorze

Christine Barwick is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po, France.