Transnational Mobility and Social Position in the European Union: Mobility Trajectories, Socio-economic Status and Evalutions (C03)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2011 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 138713964

The linking of spatial mobility to both socio-economic indicators and perceptions of social position is a unique feature of C3. It addresses this crucial link by pursuing three main objectives: (1) an analy-sis of the spatial mobility trajectories of migrants characterized by different heterogeneities, (2) the linking of spatial mobility trajectories to social positions measured as socio-economic status, and (3) an examination of how the mechanisms of interpersonal and intergroup comparisons shape People,s subjective evaluation of their social position in transnational social spaces. These issues will be explored using a mixed-methods research design. Data from the new Institute for Employ-ment Research and the Socio-Economic Panel (IAB/SOEP) Migration Sample will be analyzed. The overall objective is to use the empirical results to identify the social mechanisms involved in the nexus of spatial mobility and social positioning in the structure of social inequality.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 882: From Heterogeneities to Inequalities
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Project Heads: Professor Thomas Faist, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Ingrid Tucci