Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan
immigrants in the Netherlands this open access book explores processes of identification among
social climbers with ethnic minority backgrounds. Using both survey data and open interviews
with these 'minority climbers' the study details the contextual and temporal nature of
identification. The results illustrate how ethnicity is contextual but have tangible and
inescapable effects at the same time. Also the findings call for a more reflexive use of terms
like ethnic ingroup outgroup and bonding bridging. Overall the book helps us understand the
emergence of middle-class segments that articulate their minority identities and as such it
will be of great interest to academics policy makers and all those interested in processes of
integration and or diversity.
