Social Class and Material Deprivation in Immigrants from Poor Countries Residing in Catalonia

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to achieve a better understanding of the
deprivation inequalities existing between immigrants from poor countries
and natives. We assume that this risk is mainly explained by social class,
but it is also necessary to consider immigrant-specific factors that may
increase it. The analysis consisted of a combination of factorial and
cluster analyses in order to obtain a typology of material deprivation, as
well as several multinomial logistic regressions to determine which
socio-demographic factors are more closely associated with each profile
of material deprivation. The results indicate that social class is a powerful
factor in explaining the material deprivation of immigrants from poor
countries, but that it is not the only one.