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Record Nr.

UNINA9910373895403321

Titolo

Immigrant Incorporation, Education, and the Boundaries of Belonging / / edited by Stefan Lund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-36729-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 131 pages)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

371.826912

371

Soggetti

Educational sociology

Social structure

Equality

Culture

Schools

Sociology of Education

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Sociology of Culture

Schools and Schooling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. School choice, we-ness and school cultures -- 3. To belong or not? -- 4. "Different from the eyes of others": Negotiating faith in a non-confessional educational system -- 5. To construct civility or be constructed as anti-civil -- 6. Immigrant incorporation, Education, and the Boundaries of Belonging.

Sommario/riassunto

In this edited volume, authors analyze how symbolic boundaries of belonging are negotiated and reflected upon by school actors in different educational contexts and how that contributes to a richer understanding of the ways in which "we-ness" acts as a fundamentally structuring force in immigrant incorporation. The analyses draw on cultural sociologist Jeffrey Alexander's work on civil sphere theory, thus grasping both the solidaristic dimensions of incorporation and processes of exclusion. Chapters are guided by two major themes:



school choice/ethnic school segregation and religion/faith in schooling. Both of these themes provide rich examples of how immigrant school actors negotiate the symbolic codes that define boundaries of belonging/non-belonging in different communities. This focus will broaden the understanding of how educational practices and formal schooling works in relation to immigrant incorporation into different school cultures, as well as in the Swedish civil sphere.