Children of Immigrants in Southern Europe: Overcoming Ethnic Penalties

Author:   Giuseppe Gabrielli ,  Roberto Impicciatore
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032875248


Pages:   154
Publication Date:   01 November 2024
Format:   Hardback
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The goal of successfully incorporating ethnic minorities represents a decisive challenge for modern societies. However, migratory background continues to negatively affect the life trajectories of migrants’ descendants. ‘Hard’ and ‘soft’ barriers determine long-term inequality gaps and low intergenerational social mobility in both longstanding and more recent European immigration countries. This book complements the sparse findings on education, labour market outcomes, and wellbeing relating to immigrant offspring by providing original research in order to individuate strategies for removing the obstacles that the migrants’ descendants face. Chapters offer in-depth analyses that have been performed for specific Southern European contexts to explore the specific inequality patterns that are emerging in these more recent and unexplored immigration contexts. The main findings suggest that the lower academic performances of immigrants’ descendants can be raised through language-support programmes, mentoring programmes, positive role and disciplinary climate, extra-scholastic activities, and parental involvement. Equality opportunities in education should support school-to-work transitions and better allocate the underutilised human capital reserves of migrants’ descendants. Conversely, long-lasting penalties in educational careers and integration processes may arise when children are physically separated from their parents because of delayed family reunification. This book will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of sociology, ethnic and racial studies, international politics, and migration studies. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

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Author:   Giuseppe Gabrielli ,  Roberto Impicciatore
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781032875248


ISBN 10:   1032875240
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   01 November 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction – Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants 1. Understanding why immigrant children underperform: evidence from Italian compulsory education 2. The academic resilience of native and immigrant-origin students in selected European countries 3. Home-school distance among native and immigrant-origin lower secondary students in urban Northern Italy 4. The occupational attainment and job security of immigrant children in Spain 5. Early career trajectories of first- and second-generation migrant graduates of professional university 6. The impact of physical separation from parents on the mental wellbeing of the children of migrants

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Giuseppe Gabrielli PhD, Professor of Demography at University of Naples Federico II (Italy). His interests focus on international migration and demographic behaviours of migrants and their descendants in Europe. He authored books on the integration of migrants and second generations in Italy. He published, among others, in the British Educational Research Journal, Demographic Research, European Journal of Population, International Migration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Roberto Impicciatore PhD, Professor of Demography at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (Italy). His research interests focus mainly on international and internal migration, family dynamics and life courses in Europe. His works have been published, among others, in the European Journal of Population, International Migration, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place.

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