Migration, Class Attainment and Social Mobility

An Analysis of Migrants' Socio-Economic Integration in Italy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2234839
AutoresNazareno Panichella (0000-0002-7326-6817, University of Milan, autor de correspondencia), Maurizio Avola (0000-0002-0534-6110, University of Catania), Giorgio Piccitto (0000-0003-4007-5608, Bocconi University)
Año2021
Volumen37
Número6
Páginas883-898
Fecha de publicación2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/esr/jcab015
OpenAlexW3172472851
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36
Referencias citadas43

This article focuses on the socio-economic integration of ethnic minorities in Italy, combining the literature on migration with research on social stratification. We analyse the ethnic penalty on occupational attainment and career mobility, integrating the origin-education-destination theoretical framework with the migration status. Since ethnic penalty is an 'umbrella concept', we also quantify the extent to which it is mediated by differences in education and social origin. Furthermore, adopting a diachronic view of migrants' class attainment, we verify whether the post-migration downgrading is followed by a recovery during the career, considering also mobility within the working class (standard and non-standard). Our analyses are based on the Multipurpose Survey on Households and Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens. The results show that migrants are penalized in the Italian labour market, remaining largely 'trapped' in the working class. This inclusion at the bottom of the class structure reduces their heterogeneity by education and by social origin. Moreover, their penalty increases during the career, except when they move from the non-standard to the standard working class. Finally, we find that the 'unexplained' component of ethnic penalty, net of education and social origin, is substantial and increases from the first to the current job

Class (philosophy) · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Ethnic group · Political science · Population · Social class · Social integration · Social mobility · Social science · Social stratification · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Status attainment · Working class · Demography · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy