Professionals Made in Germany: Employing a Turkish Migration Background in High-Status Positions

Konyali, Ali; Crul, Maurice

doi:10.17645/si.v5i1.780

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“…This picture may be somewhat idealized, because our sampling looked for those who had succeeded in making it into professional positions and not for those who were never granted this access or who dropped out because the working environment was too hostile. But, according to our respondents, a good professional performance can provide high levels of recognition which is also backed by a central meritocratic argument: it is not pleasant when colleagues or clients make a fuss about them being 'Turks' or 'Muslims', but reason and right rest with those who demand to be measured by their professional performance and not their 'background' (Konyali & Crul, 2017). This is not to say that the specific cultural capital connected to family origin is not relevant.…”

Section: Being a Good Professionalmentioning

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Setting the Stage: Being Successful and Negotiating New (Mainstream) Identities

Schneider

Konyali

Waldring

et al. 2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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This chapter focuses on self-definitions among professionally successful members of the second generation in four European countries: Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. The analysis departs from a concept of identity that allows for simultaneous and intersecting references to different categories of belonging, and looks for the ways in which second-generation professionals in Western Europe position themselves in relation to three main relevant aspects: (a) being successful professionals in their specific fields; (b) being socially mobile, thus having achieved a middle-class status; and (c) being ‘second generation’, i.e. being raised in a country to which their parents had migrated from another country. The analysis looks at personal strategies for navigating the discursive challenges and external ascriptions between feelings of home and success, on the one side, and Othering experiences and ‘home country’ references in their families etc., on the other. The results indicate that high levels of education and professional and middle-class positions open up a range of possibilities to make more active choices in self-defining their belonging and individual ‘life worlds’ – including places of residence, the intensity of family relations, choice of social relations and preferred working environments.

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Section: Being a Good Professionalmentioning

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Setting the Stage: Being Successful and Negotiating New (Mainstream) Identities

Schneider

Konyali

Waldring

et al. 2022

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“…If educational trajectories are at the core of those pathways, recent research projects like 'Pathways to Success' and 'Elites' focused on another institutional context, namely the labour market. They extended their interest to the way in which educational credentials provide access to workplaces and professional careers and to factors that either enable or hinder career promotion (Lang et al, 2018;Waldring et al, 2015;Rezai, 2017;Konyali & Crul, 2017). Synthetizing their results, Crul et al (2017) offer an overall overview and discussion of the resources that can be mobilized to reach the social mobility goal in working life, namely individual agency, resilience, parental agency, social support, social skills and ethnic capital.…”

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Teachers of Immigrant Origin: Contextual Factors and Resource Mobilization in Professional Life

Fibbi

Gómez

2022

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This chapter analyses the professional choices, access to the professional field and professional experiences of tertiary-educated descendants of labour immigrants who have embraced the teaching profession. While a number of studies of socially mobile immigrant-origin adults concentrate on the resources mobilized to override the laws of social reproduction, this chapter embeds its analysis in the theoretical frame of integration context theory, which postulates that meso and macro contextual factors are of crucial importance for mobility. These factors range from general, historically evolved country-specific institutional arrangements, such as the civil service system, to targeted migrant integration policies, such as measures to recruit teachers. These dimensions are combined and synthesized in a typology of contexts. A typology of institutional opportunity structure based on these dimensions allowed us to build a comparative grid for the analysis of the rich qualitative interviews of 46 teachers of immigrant origin (TIOs) in five countries. The study emphasizes how institutional opportunity structures do or do not allow resources such as professional and ethnic networks to be relevant. By defining which attributes can be effectively mobilized by educationally successful descendants of immigrants, institutional opportunity structures shape their professional trajectory and delineate leeway for the interpretation of the professional role of TIOs.

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“…Konyali and Crul (2017) show that, whilst many second-generation people of Turkish origins have managed to find themselves in elite positions in Germany, they are still faced with an enduring stigma of low status birth, suggesting that gaining social acceptance is difficult even for elites among the ethnic minorities. In a somewhat similar fashion, Rouvoet, Eijberts and Ghorashi (2017) show that Italians in the Netherlands face an identity paradox, feeling isolated in the destination country and being an outsider in the home country.…”

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The Socio-Economic Integration of Ethnic Minorities

Heath

2017

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One of the most striking features of the contemporary world is the scale and complexity of international and internal migration and the rapidly increasing size of indigenous ethnic minorities in the national populations of many countries. International migration continues to be mainly from poor to rich nations but the more recent years have seen migration patterns becoming multidirectional, with migration flows moving between developed countries, amongst developing countries as well as from developing to developed countries. The scale of internal migration in some countries is dazzling. For instance, an estimated 260 million 'peasant workers' have moved to cities in China. The number of indigenous ethnic minorities in the country has also grown substantially, now reaching 106 million. These and other features of population change pose a serious challenge to policy-makers and the general population in many counties, in terms of making and implementing policies of social inclusion for migrant and indigenous ethnic minorities, ensuring equal access to educational and occupational opportunities, and taking measures to facilitate societal acceptance of the ethnic minority groups. With this in mind, we have, in this thematic issue, collected papers that address issues of ethnic integration in both developed and developing countries.

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Professionals Made in Germany: Employing a Turkish Migration Background in High-Status Positions

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Setting the Stage: Being Successful and Negotiating New (Mainstream) Identities

Setting the Stage: Being Successful and Negotiating New (Mainstream) Identities

Teachers of Immigrant Origin: Contextual Factors and Resource Mobilization in Professional Life

The Socio-Economic Integration of Ethnic Minorities

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