New Social Mobility

Chapter 1. Producing pathways to success: new perspectives on social mobility.- Chapter 2. Data, Methods and Comparisons.- Chapter 3.- Setting the stage: being successful and negotiating new (mainstream) identities.- Chapter 4. Becoming successful in the business and law sectors: institutional structures and individual resources.- Chapter 5. Teachers of immigrant origin: contextual factors and resource mobilisation in professional life.- Chapter 6. Becoming elite in an egalitarian context: pathways to law and medicine among Norway's second generation.- Chapter 7. New Social Mobility: pioneers and their potentials for change.

Jens Schneider is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He studied Anthropology, Musicology, Linguistics and Ethnic Studies at the universities of Hamburg and Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Tübingen. He was Post-doc at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and senior researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has been coordinator of the IMISCOE Standing Committee "Education and Social Mobility/Inequalities" since 2012. His major research interests include identity, urban diversity, cultural production, social mobility and education. Selected recent publications: "Young refugees in education: the particular challenges of school systems in Europe." (2019; Comparative Migration Studies Vol. 7, article 28 (2019) with C. Köhler); "'Ausländer' (foreigners), migrants, or new Germans? Identity-Building processes and school socialization among adolescents from immigrant backgrounds in Germany." In New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 160/2018, 59-73; "Demographic 'Megatrends' and Their Implications (2018; Siirtolaisuus/Migration); Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts. Critical Perspectives (2016; edited with Clea Schmidt); Social Mobility, Habitus and Identity Formation in the Turkish-German Second Generation (2014; New Diversities; with Christine Lang); The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter? (2012; edited with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie).

Maurice Crul is a distinguished Professor of Sociology on the topic of Diversity and Education at the Free University. He studied Political Science and Ethnic Studies and received his PhD in Anthropology department at the University of Amsterdam. He initiated and directed the first comparative research project on the children of immigrants, the TIES-Project and received