Migrant, Roma and post-colonial youth in education across Europe : being 'visibly different' /

"This book compares the educational experiences of adolescents from a variety of 'visible' ethnic minority groups such as Roma in Central Europe, post-colonial minorities in France and England, Turks and Arabs in Germany, and recent immigrants in Scandinavia. Focusing on underprivileg...

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Other Authors: Szalai, Júlia (Editor), Schiff, Claire (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houdmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding the salience of ethnicity in the educational experiences of minority adolescents across Europe / Claire Schiff
  • Apart or together : motivations behind ethnic segregation in education across Europe / Vera Messing
  • Inclusive education for children of immigrants : the Turkish second generation in Sweden, the Netherlands and Austria / Philipp Schnell and Maurice Crul
  • Teachers' approaches to ethnic minority students through a comparative lens / Claire Schiff
  • The emerging 'ethnic ceiling' : implications of grading on adolescents' educational advancement in comparative perspective / Julia Szalai
  • Education in the European multicultural debates and polices / Violetta Zentai
  • Intricacies of ethnicity : a comparative study of minority identity formation during adolescence / Mária Neményi and Róza Vajda
  • Dampened voices : a comparative look at Roma adolescents' discourses on being 'othered' at school / Margit Feischmidt
  • Educational strategies of minority youth and the social constructions of ethnicity / Bolette Moldenhawer
  • Racism, ethnicity and schooling in England / Ian Law and Sarah Swann
  • Experiencing ethnicity in a colour-blind system : minority students in France / Claire Schiff
  • The interplay of school and family and its impact on the educational careers of ethnic minority youth in Germany / Gaby Strassburger
  • Ethnic identification and the desire to belong in the case of urban Roma youth in Romania / Enikő̋ Vincze
  • Structural and personal forms of discrimination in Slovak multiethnic schools / David Kostlán
  • Conclusions : ethnic distinctions and the making of citizenship in education / Julia Szalai.