The role of social class for people on the move is understudied. An immigrant’s social class position shapes their ability to navigate migration laws and acquire a legal migration status. Once settled, laws and policies will determine which constraints immigrants will face and which opportunities they are offered, thereby affecting their class position. By analyzing the interaction of social class and laws and policies both pre-and post-mobility, the present project will make it possible to paint a complete picture of this interaction, thereby addressing a gap in our knowledge on the functioning of social class in immigrants’ lives.
The research questions will be answered using legal and empirical research methods and will be conducted in the Netherlands. Participants are migrants with diverse migration statuses (based on family reunification, study, work, asylum, etc.) but with selected nationalities (currently Turkish and Syrian).
The research is partly funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
