Educational Aspirations and Attainments : How resources relate to outcomes for children of immigrants in disadvantaged Swedish schools

Abstract

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences  No. 796 At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping University, research and doctoral studies are carried out within broad problem areas. Research is organized in interdisciplinary research environments and doctoral studies mainly in graduate schools. Jointly, they publish the series Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences. This thesis comes from the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (Remeso) at the Department of Culture and Society.

The value of immigrants' human capital for labour market integration

“…Children of immigrants have their life-chances affected by their parents' origin (Andersson et al, 2018;Behtoui, 2013;Nygård, 2021). How they accumulate domestic human capital, how they use it and how it is being valued are research questions in their own right (Nygård, 2020). But for all intents and purposes, they do not start their work-life in Sweden with foreign human capital.…”