The inequalities faced by immigrants and ethnic minorities are topics of substantial salience across Europe, reflected in an every-growing body of research. Despite the insights shed by this burgeoning literature there remain a number of outstanding debates and puzzles about what leads to better or worse outcomes and the underlying mechanisms.
The UK is an interesting case for illuminating some of these debates and puzzles, due to: the diversity of its immigrant and ethnic minority population, the richness of research base, and certain counter-intuitive findings that are at odds with theoretical expectations as well as evidence from other European countries. It thus has the potential to shed further light on what drives more or less unequal outcomes in different contexts.
Drawing on a range of research from across the last 20-years, in this lecture I examine the patterns and paradoxes in observed educational and labour market attainment of migrants and minorities, with reference to the role of class background, educational aspirations, neighbourhoods and social networks, cohort change and return migration, discrimination and policy to. I explore the gendered differences in such outcomes, and what that implies for our understanding of wider national ‘gender orders’. I reflect on what this body of work can tell us about the factors that shape economic outcomes in different settings, the need for greater attention to both migrant success as well as migrant disadvantage; and I assess the key outstanding questions and implications for future research.
Date
17.10.2024
, 10:30 a.m. till noon
Venue
Institute for Employment Research
Regensburger Straße 104
90478 Nürnberg
Room Re100 E10
or online via MS Teams
Keynote speakers
Professor Lucinda Platt (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Lucinda Platt is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before joining the LSE she was at the University of Essex, where she became one of the original co-investigators on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, and was subsequently appointed as Director of the Millennium Cohort Study at UCL Institute of Education. Lucinda’s main research areas of interest are inequality and social stratification, particularly in relation to ethnicity, migration, disability and gender. She also studies child poverty and child development, social mobility, religiosity, and national and ethnic identity. She has published widely in these areas. She is a Panel member for the IFS Deaton Review of Inequality; is President of the European Academy of Sociology, and she continues as co-investigator on Understanding Society, leading on the ethnicity and migration strand of the survey.
Registration
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