Acculturation Identity and Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off between Ethnic Identity and Education?
| Autor: | Gülay Özcan, Lena Nekby, Magnus Rödin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Higher education
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration Ethnic group Identity (social science) Educational attainment Acculturation 0506 political science Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0502 economics and business Premise 050602 political science & public administration Sociology 050207 economics business Social psychology Socioeconomic status Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Migration Review. 43:938-973 |
| ISSN: | 1747-7379 0197-9183 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2009.00790.x |
| Popis: | This paper examines the role of identification to home and host cultures on the pursuit of higher educations for individuals with immigrant backgrounds. Identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on strength of identification to both ethnic background cultures and the majority culture. Results indicate that integrated men that identify with both the majority and the background culture are associated with higher probabilities of completed tertiary educations than men that identify only with the majority culture as well as men with weak affiliations to both background and majority cultures. These results hold despite controls for early education outcomes and socioeconomic status. No systematic differences in higher educational attainment by identity are found for women once differences in early education are accounted for. These results put into question the premise of oppositional identities, i.e., a trade-off between ethnic identity and higher educational achievement. |
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