The Intergenerational Social Mobility of Minority Ethnic Groups

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Class Matters: A Study of Minority and Majority Social Mobility in Britain, 1982–2011

“…Somewhat similar results were found by Platt (2005aPlatt ( , 2005b, who used the Longitudinal Study from the linked Censuses of the Population for England and Wales to compare the social mobility of 1.5-generation or second-generation Indians and Caribbeans with that of age-peers from the white British population. She found that patterns of mobility differed between the two groups as well as between the majority and the ethnic minority groups.…”

“…Although there have been some efforts at combining the two traditions (Heath and Ridge 1983;Heath and McMahon 2005;Platt 2005aPlatt , 2005b; see also Rex and Tomlinson 1979), these remain rather limited because of data shortages. In general, British mobility researchers have ignored ethnic differentiation, while British ethnicity researchers have ignored social class differentiation.…”

“…And we differentiate four periods: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s (which thus cover the period of increasing inequality in British society). We use a modified version of the Erikson/Goldthorpe measure of social class positions that has become the standard for crossnational mobility research: we add an additional category consisting of the unemployed to this standard schema since higher risk of unemployment may be one of the main barriers facing migrants and their descendants (Platt 2005a(Platt , 2005bCheung and Heath 2007). If exclusion from work is a major disadvantage for migrants and their children in British society, a focus simply on those in work may lead to an overly optimistic picture of class reproduction among migrants and their children.…”

Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

“…Rollock, Gillborn, Vincent, & Ball 2015). Class and ethnicity are particularly interesting in this regard, as different generations may have substantially different experiences of racialised class structures (Platt 2005), which can impact upon how they use linguistic variation for identity work (e.g. Sharma & Sankaran 2011).…”

Narratives of success among Irish and African Caribbean migrants

“…Evidence from the 2001 census indicates that there was considerable upward social mobility from first to second generation Irish men at a time when social mobility in Britain had flattened off. In contrast, longitudinal data on African Caribbean men tentatively suggest some downward social mobility for this cohort (Platt 2003). More recent data confirm these patterns.…”