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Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility : the case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States

Bankston, Carl L., III.; Zhou, Min - 2018

In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic...

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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA : evidence from labour market panel surveys

Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

Clark, Gregory - 2020

In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...

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Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration : national and subnational influences

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2019

Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host-country' populations. What factors contribute to such variation? What policies and programmes facilitate 'better' economic integration? This paper, and the broader collection of studies that it...

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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?

Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021

Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject of considerable research in the analysis of inequality. Such intergenerational linkages are anticipated to come from two sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and...

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Degrees of disadvantage

Srikanth, Chinmayi - 2023

This study is positioned in two strands of literature-intersectionality and social mobility. It is the first to measure (dis)advantage at the individual level as an outcome of the intersectionality of identities and parental circumstances. By linking circumstances at the parental level with...

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Social mobility and inequality between groups

Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020

The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not...

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Concepts of social mobility

Fields, Gary S. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019

This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well...

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Cities of youth : post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality

Hansen, Karen Tranberg - 2014

With a focus on cities in eastern and southern Africa, this paper draws on recent scholarship and my own research in Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of economic, political, and spatial processes that are...

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The ethnographic approach to social mobility

Vaid, Divya - 2020

The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility. This paper provides a discussion on ethnography as a method and approach to writing and description, and reviews some ways in which themes related to social mobility in the developing world have been...

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