Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

2021-11-19T06:00:00Z

Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner's research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society. In this interview, she returns to the notion of international capital, which she used in her work to shed light on inequalities relating to mobility, particularly in her pioneering survey of “expat” executives in France.
Where does your interest in upper-class migration come from, and what do you see as the contribution made by work on this subject?
When I began my PhD

- Interviews / mobility, expatriation, globalization, social class, upper classes, migrants, immigration, migration, school, education, inequalities

Europe and the Question of Social Class

Gilles Laferté & translated by Oliver Waine — 2020-05-29T05:00:00Z

A recent French work addresses the issue of social class in Europe, considering the different profiles and distribution of working, middle and upper classes across the continent. Gilles Laferté contends that, by posing the question of whether a unified European social space exists, this study stimulates debate on the most relevant geographical scales—local, national, transnational—for analyzing social structure.
Étienne Penissat, Cédric Hugrée and Alexis Spire's book, Les Classes sociales en

- Reviews / social class, working classes, middle classes, upper classes, Europe

Metropolitics

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

Europe and the Question of Social Class