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Wednesday 4 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
Y-2 SOC15a Social Mobility I: Settlers Societies
11UQ/01/010 University Square
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Family and Demography , Social Inequality Chair: Thomas M. Adams
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Heidi Ing : Social Mobility in Colonial South Australia: a Three-generation Study of Occupational and Geographic Mobility
Three-generation analysis of occupational mobility provides an insight into class transmission from grandparent to child to grandchild. The grandparent generation in this paper is a population of immigrants to South Australia, born between the years 1782 and 1821 and who arrived in the colony in 1836. Large scale indexing and ... (Show more)
Three-generation analysis of occupational mobility provides an insight into class transmission from grandparent to child to grandchild. The grandparent generation in this paper is a population of immigrants to South Australia, born between the years 1782 and 1821 and who arrived in the colony in 1836. Large scale indexing and digitisation of vital records have created online resources that enable multigenerational historical studies of social mobility, and this paper uses birth, death and marriage records, combined with obituaries and electoral rolls, to link people across generations.

For the first and second generation, at least three occupations have been gathered, whenever possible, representing the early, mid- and end-career of individuals. This enables intragenerational career mobility analysis for the first and second generations. In the third generation, at least one occupation has been found for each person, with a preference for mid-career occupations. All occupations have been coded using HISCO classification and families allocated to a social class in the HISCLASS scheme of social stratification.

Family class has been ascribed using the occupation of the marriage partner who attracts the higher class position, as assigned by HISCO/HISCLASS coding. By the third generation, women’s occupations are more visible through birth, death and marriage records and the coding of these occupations can result in the family class position following that of the female ‘breadwinner’. In the first and second generation, women are on occasion visible carrying the economic responsibility for the household, and this paper will highlight the rate in which this situation increases into the third generation.

As immigrants, the first generation, or grandparents, of this social mobility study were all geographically mobile, and this paper will demonstrate how a tendency toward geographic mobility continued into the third generation. Upon arrival in South Australia, immigrants were nominally ‘colonists’ or ‘labourers’. This paper will highlight the correlation between geographic movement and the resulting social mobility experience by these ‘colonists’ or ‘labourers’ who took advantage of perceived opportunities in the antipodes. (Show less)

Felix P. Meier zu Selhausen, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Jacob Weisdorf : Father-to-Son Mobility in British Africa: Long-Run Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers, 1880-2010
This article uses Anglican marriage registers from seven colonies in British Africa to explore long-term trends and determinants of intergenerational social mobility among urban Protestant African men. We show that the Christian converts were remarkably mobile, reaping the benefits of early mission schooling and access to formal labour markets, enabling ... (Show more)
This article uses Anglican marriage registers from seven colonies in British Africa to explore long-term trends and determinants of intergenerational social mobility among urban Protestant African men. We show that the Christian converts were remarkably mobile, reaping the benefits of early mission schooling and access to formal labour markets, enabling them to take large steps up the social ladder regardless of their social origin. However, within British Africa opportunities for social advancement were not equally distributed. In cities of European settler colonies, such as Kenya and South Africa, African mobility levels were significantly lower and skilled positions less open to Africans than in urban non-settler Nigeria, Uganda, Sierra Leone and Ghana. This provides evidence how the type of colonial formation impacted African social mobility. Mobility levels converged across British Africa from the 1950s Africanization period onward. (Show less)

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas : Who Benefits, Stayers in the Motherland or Movers to the Colonies? Social Mobility and Migration to Algeria 1870-1910.
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many Europeans left their homeland to try their luck in the colonies. Most migrants changed places to further their economic and social position. But how successful were they and which migrants were more successful? These questions are often asked for recent migrants to the ... (Show more)
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many Europeans left their homeland to try their luck in the colonies. Most migrants changed places to further their economic and social position. But how successful were they and which migrants were more successful? These questions are often asked for recent migrants to the USA or Europe . Those migrants often enter the labor market in the country of destination in relatively low status positions. During their life and especially over generations, many migrants subsequently better their social position. European migrants to the colonies, though, entered the labor market in their country of destination not at the bottom but often at higher echelons of society. Since these privileged migrants may also have originated from higher classes than the average migrant, it is still relevant to ask whether migration made that they did better than their parents. And did their descendants keep their relatively privileged position? Were European migrants to the colonies better off than if they had stayed at home, or if they had tried their luck in other places within their home country? We thus address central debates in both present day as well as historical migration debates. In this article we seek to answer the following two questions: Were colonial migrants more successful than non-migrants, (1) compared to resident citizens in the colony of destination (Algeria), and (2) compared to those who stayed behind (in France)? (Show less)



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