Educational aspirations are generally based on past academic achievement and families'
endowment with the resources needed to reach targeted educational levels. However …

In this paper we discuss the social identity processes by which discrimination can have an
impact on ethnic-racial minority group students' academic engagement. After considering …

Bildungsaspirationen stellen angestrebte Ziele in Bezug auf zukünftige Bildungsergebnisse
dar. Viele Studien haben nachgewiesen, dass die Bildungsaspirationen von Kindern und …

Immigrant children's ambitious educational choices have often been linked to their families'
high level of optimism and motivation for upward mobility. However, previous research has …

Recent studies have shown that ethnic minorities of immigrant origin are more likely to
continue in education than students of the majority group with similar levels of achievement …

Discrimination impacts most youth at some point. Almost all children and adolescents
belong to at least one stigmatized group, whether they are a Black or Latino boy in school; …

This article presents a comparative examination of the educational underachievement of
second-generation immigrants in Western Europe near the end of compulsory schooling …

Starting out from the frequent empirical finding that immigrants exhibit higher educational
aspirations than non-immigrants, we analyse the role of immigrants' value of education, ie …

Compared to natives, students with immigrant background are–other things being equal–
more likely to choose academic tracks over vocational education and training (VET) at upper …

Although children of immigrant origin in many European countries are observed to choose
higher levels of education than native-origin peers at similar levels of academic …