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Inequality and Integration

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How inequality impacts immigrant children in schools

Socioeconomic inequality is intertwined with immigrant status in many European societies. One question is whether and how socioeconomic disadvantages among immigrant parents affect their children’s integration. Sweden, with its high immigration levels, increasing income inequality, growing school segregation, and decreasing support for immigration, serves as an example. In this context, the ERC-funded IneQint project will conduct a longitudinal survey of 5 000 pupils in 100 Swedish schools, including information from parents, school registers, and digital data. The project aims to assess changes in inequality and integration over the past 15 years and to understand inter-ethnic social relations, attitudes, values, and well-being within the context of school structures.

Objective

Socioeconomic inequality has become increasingly intertwined with immigrant status in many Western European societies. One important question is whether and how socioeconomic disadvantages among immigrant parents hamper the integration of their children. This project focuses on inequality and spatial segregation, and how they affect the children of immigrants in terms of their wellbeing and structural, social and cultural integration. We ask how integration in different dimensions comes to be, analyzing the internal workings of schools, including grading, ability grouping, and social relations among classmates. The complex nature of the questions we address requires outstanding and up-to-date data: one of the major contributions of this project is to collect such data. This will be achieved via a longitudinal survey conducted among 5000 pupils in 100 representative Swedish comprehensive schools, coupled with parent, register and digital data. The project also offers excellent opportunities to assess changes in inequality and integration over the last 15 years through comparisons with pre-existing data. Sweden provides a particularly interesting case due to its high immigration (particularly from the Middle East and Africa’s horn), increasing income inequality, growing ethnic and socioeconomic school segregation, and rapidly decreasing support for immigration. The data will make it possible to study changes in inter-ethnic social relations, attitudes, values, religiosity and subjective wellbeing over time – all within the context of the structural opportunities set by inequality and segregation. The study also obtains information (from teachers, headmasters and registers) on school organization, resources, and climate, producing a comprehensive picture of the school setting. In this sense, it is more than a survey conducted in schools; it is a survey of schools, the pupils that populate them, and the resources and milieu they are embedded in.

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STIFTELSEN INSTITUTET FOR FRAMTIDSSTUDIER
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€ 3 244 050,71
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PO BOX 591
101 31 Stockholm
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Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län
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