A EUROPEAN MIGRATORY PRIVILEGE? An intersectional deconstruction of the European immigrant category in order to analyze residential and spatial trajectories of a heterogeneous population in terms of class, gender and ethnicity
In the North- North mobility context, within the European Schengen Area, arises the importance of so-called privileged migration, « through class, citizenship or race »1. Empirical evidence comes through the example of the present South European migrations in France: where those are opposed to the extra-European ones and presented as model minorities2
On one hand these categories and their consequence receive little interest, on the other color blindness approach affects French and european public statistics. Nevertheless a few qualitative studies participate in showing the important differences between European and non-European migrants in terms of integration and discrimination within the EU 3.
Moreover, in the Trajectoires et Origines surveys(TeO 2009 and TeO2 2020) it is evident that the career paths of immigrants of non-European origin and their descendants suffer a wage discount and that they are overrepresented among the unemployed.4 In addition, South European migrants are likely to experience professional downgrading when entering the labour market of the north European settlement country5.
Through this research we aim to deconstruct the homogeneity through which the latter category is presented in statistics and to unveil the inequal socio-professional, residential, and family paths within it. Thus, it is important to investigate, how and to which extent the privilege of European citizenship shapes student and labor mobility of intra-European migrants. In order to gather the effects of gender, class and ethnicity characteristics, in terms of migration and immigration pathways within the categorized group of European immigrant students and labour workers.
The research fieldwork will be the Parisian food service sector where labour is still strongly structured along ethnic lines. Such a survey employs mixed methods methodology (quantitative through online surveys and qualitative with participant observation and interviews among restaurant’s workers in Paris).
Mots clés : European citizenship|Intesectionality|Professional Life Courses|Professional downgrading|South European migrants
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