http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/1861348223.pdf

Migration and social mobility: the life chances of Britain's minority 
ethnic communities

Younger generations from many of Britain's minority ethnic groups are 
succeeding in breaking through the class barrier. Educational achievements 
have helped children of working-class parents in the Caribbean, African, 
Indian and Chinese communities to obtain managerial and professional jobs 
at a faster rate than their white counterparts, according to research for 
the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

But the study, based on surveys tracing children's progress over 30 years, 
finds that young people from the Pakistani community are an exception. 
Although their parents are heavily concentrated in the working class, they 
show less upward mobility than children from white manual workers' 
families. Bangladeshis are similarly disadvantaged but unlike young 
Pakistanis, this can be more readily explained by education and other 
characteristics of their backgrounds.

Lucinda Platt, a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of 
Essex, analysed data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal 
Study on 140,000 children who grew up between the 1960s and the 1980s. Her 
research showed that family background and class had an important influence 
on later employment: children whose parents were in the managerial or 
professional classes were more likely to end up in higher-status jobs, even 
after account was taken of differences in educational achievement. Coming 
from a more advantaged background also tended to reduce their chances of 
unemployment.

An expansion in professional and managerial occupations over the past 30 
years has created more 'room at the top', giving rise to an increase in 
upward mobility. Even so, a comparison between children whose parents were 
born overseas and white children of parents born in the UK showed young 
people from many minority ethnic groups were making disproportionate 
progress.

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