Ethnicity in England: What Parents' Country of Birth Can and Can't Tell Us about Their Children's Ethnic Identification

Parameshwaran, Meenakshi; Engzell, Per

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2014.920690

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“…Nevertheless, visible minority status is largely captured by the country-of-origin groups. In England, the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Four European Countries survey included a question about ethnic self-identity, modeled on the England and Wales census, that comes close to the American notion of “race.”Parameshwaran and Engzell (2015) validate this measure against an origin-based classification and report substantial agreement.…”

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Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

Engzell

2018

Sociol Educ

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Why is it that children of immigrants often outdo their ethnic majority peers in educational aspirations yet struggle to keep pace with their achievements? This article advances the explanation that many immigrant communities, while positively selected on education, still have moderate absolute levels of schooling. Therefore, parents' education may imbue children with high expectations but not always the means to fulfill them. Swedish data on children of immigrants from over 100 countries of origin support this view: net of parents' absolute years of schooling, a high rank in the sending country benefits children's aspirations, attitudes, and educational choices, but not their test scores or school grades. The upshot is an "aspiration squeeze" where, to emulate their parents' relative place in the education distribution, children are left struggling against the momentous tide of educational expansion.

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Engzell

2018

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“…Despite these differences in adolescents' ethnic identification, research often tends to describe participants ethnicity based on country of birth (or even country of birth of their parents). The results of this study contribute to the claim that country of origin should not be used to determine participants' ethnicity (Parameshwaran & Engzell, 2015).…”

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Ethnic identities of immigrant and native adolescents: development and relationship to life satisfaction

Lara

2018

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Ethnic identity becomes an important issue during adolescence, especially for ethnic minority groups. This study examines ethnic identities of immigrant and native adolescents who live in Spain, focusing on the ethnic labels they use, their development, and the relation with life satisfaction. Questionnaires were administered to first-generation immigrants (n = 501; mean age 14.6 years) as well as to their native host classmates (n = 501, mean age 14.3 years). Results show that ethnic identification was mainly determined by country of birth; however, in the case of immigrants, having immigrated at an early age favored the use of identity labels of the majority group. Immigrants were more likely to be in the achieved ethnic identity category than non-immigrants, although it was positively related to life satisfaction in both groups. Finally, older adolescents were not more likely to be in the achieved category than younger ones.

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“…Applying a suitable age threshold for the legitimate expression of subjective identities is difficult and available guidance varies (see e.g. Parameshwaran and Engzell ), but it certainly seems important to distinguish between data on national identity that is likely to be autonomously derived and that which is more likely to be ‘proxy’ in nature. Published aggregate data do not allow for this.…”

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Sub‐state national identities among minority groups in Britain: a comparative analysis of 2011 census data

Bond

2016

Nations and Nationalism

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Using data from a new question in the 2011 UK census, national identities across minority ethno‐religious groups in England, Wales and Scotland are compared. The findings not only substantiate earlier work showing high levels of British identification among minority groups but also demonstrate that this does not extend to sub‐state national identities. The extent of sub‐state national identification varies between different minorities, but the nature of this variation also depends on the specific (sub‐state) national context. The findings may be understood in relation to key biographical ‘markers’ of national identity. These markers help explain variations in sub‐state national identities to a much greater extent than British identity, but their effect also varies across the different nations. The analysis demonstrates the importance of examining sub‐state as well as state (British) identities and heeding differences in the ways in which these identities might be conceived and asserted across national borders within the same state.

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Ethnicity in England: What Parents' Country of Birth Can and Can't Tell Us about Their Children's Ethnic Identification

Cited by 18 publications

References 39 publications

Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

Ethnic identities of immigrant and native adolescents: development and relationship to life satisfaction

Sub‐state national identities among minority groups in Britain: a comparative analysis of 2011 census data

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