| Migration and Social Mobility: The Life Chances of Britain's Minority Ethnic Communities Contributor(s): Platt, Lucinda (Author) |
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ISBN: 1861348002 ISBN-13: 9781861348005 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2005 Annotation: The creation of a more open society and improving race equality are current core policy concerns. Understanding the part class and ethnicity plays in determining life chances is critical to policies tackling inequality and promoting opportunity. This report aids such understanding by investigating the impact of class background and ethnicity on class position. Migration and Mobility traces patterns of intergenerational social mobility for children from different ethnic groups all growing up in England and Wales in the 1960s to 1980s. This study directly measures the class and other characteristics of study members' parents in 1971 and 1981 and their own outcomes in 2001. We know very little about patterns of parent-to-child social class mobility for Britain's minority ethnic groups. This study therefore provides a major contribution to our understanding in this area. Uniquely, it also examines how religion can supplement our understanding of ethnic minority social mobility. Relevant |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 305.513 |
| LCCN: 2006411082 |
| Physical Information: 56 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Drawing on data from the ONS Longitudinal Survey, this report traces patterns of intergenerational social mobility for children from different ethnic groups growing up in England and Wales. The study focuses on children born between the late 1950s and mid 1970s. Measures of their progress and class position are compared, for the first time, with those of their parents. The report therefore provides a unique insight into 'parent-to-child' class transitions across 'first' (immigrant) and 'second' generations. Taking advantage of the new question on religion in the 2001 Census, the report also asks whether patterns of intergenerational mobility vary by religious affiliation and whether religion can add to our understanding of ethnic group differences. Migration and social mobility is essential reading for all those wishing to know more about the extent and nature of ethnic minority achievement and disadvantage. |
