To some, it is surprising when higher educated ethnic minorities identify with their ethnicity. After all, social mobility often requires high levels of adaptation to the society of residence. How then, and why, is this combined with ethnic identification? And why do higher educated individuals with minority backgrounds ‘still’ appreciate the bonds with co-ethnics? This book explores ethnic identification among social climbers with ethnic minority backgrounds. In particular, it focuses on the ethnic identifications of university educated adult children of Moroccan and Turkish immigrants. How strongly do they identify with the ethnic labels ‘Moroccan’ and ‘Turkish’? Does this reduce their identification as Dutch, as some people fear? In what situations do they articulate their ethnic identity, and why? How does their identification develop over time? And, in what ways is their ethnic background relevant for them? Based on a mixed methods approach, this study provides answers to these questions. Results from a structured survey and in-depth interviews reveal that feeling ‘Moroccan’, ‘Turkish’ can be strong among minority climbers but does not necessarily threaten their identification as ‘Dutch’. These results show that identification with these labels has different meanings for different people, and they show how these identifications and meanings depend on time and social context. Specifically, a trajectory of ‘reinvention of ethnic identification’ is identified, in which co-ethnic, higher educated soulmates appear to play crucial roles. This helps us understand why social climbers enter the middle-classes who do not discard their ethnic distinctiveness.