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Higher Education and Social Mobility in France - Challenges and Possibilities among Descendants of North African Immigrants (Hardcover)
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Higher Education and Social Mobility in France - Challenges and Possibilities among Descendants of North African Immigrants (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Migration and Diaspora
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This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of the social
trajectories and experiences of children of post-colonial
immigrants in France who are embarking on paths of extreme upward
intergenerational mobility. The author draws on life history
interviews with young adults of North African immigrant background,
enrolled at or having recently graduated from the country's elite
higher education institutions, the grandes ecoles, to delve into
largely under-researched pathways and give a voice to
high-achieving members of a population that continues to be
collectively associated with difficulties to 'integrate'. The
volume constitutes the first sociological study to document, from
the individual actor's perspective, the everyday experience of
racism within France's elite educational institutions and to reveal
the upward mobility experience to be informed by the interlocking
effects of racial processes, immigrant ancestry, class background,
and gender. Challenging the pervasive representation of descendants
of North African immigrants as 'unsuccessful' and 'unable to
integrate', this book sheds light on the experiences of the largely
silent upwardly mobile members of a stigmatized minority group,
revealing the strategies used to respond to the constraints to
their mobility and the importance of familial histories of
post-colonial migration, characterized by the former generation's
efforts, sacrifices, and resilience, in informing these 'success
stories'.
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