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Unequal Attainments

Anthony Heath, Yael Brinbaum
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      The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the patterns of ethnic educational inequality among the 'second generation' (that is of the children of migrants born in the country of destination) in secondary schools and higher education in ten western countries - Belgium, Britain, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA. These are countries which have become increasingly diverse in recent years and which provide arange of educational systems, immigration rules, and integration policies. The experience of the second generation, who have been born and educated in the countries of destination, is widely seen as being a crucial test of whether western liberal democracies live up to their professed ideals offairness and meritocracy. Education is likely to be crucial for the future integration of ethnic minorities, with important implications for social cohesion. The book investigates the educational careers of the second-generation groups using large-scale national datasets and harmonised analyses of outcomes in order to identify patterns of success and failure in education and the mechanisms underlying such inequalities. It examines whether such differences can be attributed to immigration policies of the receiving countries, the structure of the education system, the poverty of the sending countries, their cultural differences from the destinationcountry, the degree of 'positive selection' of the migrants, or to more specific characteristics of particular ethnic minorities. It provides a rigorous description and quantification of ethnic inequalities in education and makes important progress in explaining existing inequalities.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Anthony Heath, Yael Brinbaum EAN: 9780197265741 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 646 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-10-09 CITY: GENRE: EDUCATION / Comparative, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination WIDTH: 172 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Educational strategies and policy

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      Anthony Heath Professor of Sociology; Senior Research Fellow, Manchester University; University of Oxford Yael Brinbaum Associate Professor; Researcher in Sociology, University of Burgundy; Centre d'etudes de l'emploi
      The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the patterns of ethnic educational inequality among the 'second generation' (that is of the children of migrants born in the country of destination) in secondary schools and higher education in ten western countries - Belgium, Britain, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA. These are countries which have become increasingly diverse in recent years and which provide arange of educational systems, immigration rules, and integration policies. The experience of the second generation, who have been born and educated in the countries of destination, is widely seen as being a crucial test of whether western liberal democracies live up to their professed ideals offairness and meritocracy. Education is likely to be crucial for the future integration of ethnic minorities, with important implications for social cohesion. The book investigates the educational careers of the second-generation groups using large-scale national datasets and harmonised analyses of outcomes in order to identify patterns of success and failure in education and the mechanisms underlying such inequalities. It examines whether such differences can be attributed to immigration policies of the receiving countries, the structure of the education system, the poverty of the sending countries, their cultural differences from the destinationcountry, the degree of 'positive selection' of the migrants, or to more specific characteristics of particular ethnic minorities. It provides a rigorous description and quantification of ethnic inequalities in education and makes important progress in explaining existing inequalities.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Anthony Heath, Yael Brinbaum EAN: 9780197265741 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 646 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-10-09 CITY: GENRE: EDUCATION / Comparative, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination WIDTH: 172 cm SPINE:

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      Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Educational strategies and policy

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      Anthony Heath Professor of Sociology; Senior Research Fellow, Manchester University; University of Oxford Yael Brinbaum Associate Professor; Researcher in Sociology, University of Burgundy; Centre d'etudes de l'emploi

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