1st Edition
Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice Turkish-Germans in Berlin
By Christine Barwick
Copyright 2016
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 looking at upwardly mobile Turkish-Germans living in... Read more
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
Biography
Christine Barwick is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po, France.
