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From Multiracial Subjects to Multicultural Citizens: Social Stratification and Ethnic and Racial Classification among Children of Immigrants in the United Kingdom

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  • Christel Kesler
  • Luisa Farah Schwartzman

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type="main" xml:id="imre12101-abs-0001"> This study examines how immigrant parents’ geographic origins correspond to their adult children's ethnic and racial self-classification; whether discrepancies are associated with socioeconomic status; and the implications of these patterns for assessing socioeconomic inequality. Using linked British census data, we identify immigrants’ children in 1971 and examine how they ethnically/racially self-classify in 2001. We find that fluidity in classification varies across groups, but higher educational attainment is consistently associated with less white British classification. Therefore, grouping immigrants’ children by ethnic/racial self-classification underestimates socioeconomic disadvantage for these groups. However, grouping by parental birthplace overlooks variation in racialization and disadvantage among children of immigrants from the same country of origin.

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  • Christel Kesler & Luisa Farah Schwartzman, 2015. "From Multiracial Subjects to Multicultural Citizens: Social Stratification and Ethnic and Racial Classification among Children of Immigrants in the United Kingdom," International Migration Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(3), pages 790-836, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:intmig:v:49:y:2015:i:3:p:790-836
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    1. Anica Bowe, 2020. "The Immigrant Paradox Among the UK’s Adolescents: Data from the LSYPE 2004–2010 Project," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 1205-1224, December.

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