ABSTRACT

Whereas the previous chapter addressed the respondents’ ego-centred support networks, the present chapter asks whether or not the neighbourhood makes a difference for the flow of resources from upwardly mobile ethnic minorities to their lower class co-ethnics. We thus turn from the respondents’ own support networks and ask who they themselves support, based on their increased economic and cultural capital. Does, for example, a person who moves out of a low-income neighbourhood also draw boundaries to this neighbourhood and its residents? Is a mover entirely lost to the disadvantaged neighbourhood she has lived in before? Or does upward mobility of ethnic minorities benefit the more disadvantaged members of that same group, irrespective of where the person lives?