Children of Immigrants in Southern Europe - Overcoming Ethnic Penalties

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Giuseppe Impicciatore Gabrielli
• Assisted by: Giuseppe Gabrielli (Editor), Roberto Impicciatore (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032875248
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287524-8
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Southern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Constitutional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, LAW / Jurisprudence, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Jurisprudence & general issues, Age groups: children, Jurisprudence and general issues, Asylum Law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General