Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice

Turkish-Germans in Berlin
Neuauflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4724-6215-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Cities and Society

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 Berlin. Those Turkish-Germans in Berlin, who decide to move out of a low status neighbourhood, mostly in order to find a better educational infrastructure for their children, show various strategies to keep ties back to their old neighbourhood. Moreover, the movers now living in neighbourhoods with a high share of native-German residents, where they stand out as the other, keep ties to other people with a Turkish background, not only through socializing with co-ethnics, but also through various forms of voluntary involvement. Hence, a move presents a spatial withdrawal from a socioeconomically weak and ethnically diverse neighbourhood, but it does not imply that this neighbourhood no longer plays a role in Turkish-Germans’ daily practices or as somewhere with which to continuously identify. Barwick’s sophisticated study shows that moving and staying are both active decisions and they both have positive and negative consequences. Thus, movers and stayers alike develop coping strategies for their respective situation, and develop particular daily practices and forms of identification with place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barwick, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Barwick is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po, France.