Publication
Title
The (un)importance of ethnicity in adolescents' boundary making : an analysis over a two-school year period in a super-diverse city
Author
Abstract
Drawing on three rounds of in-depth interviews with Antwerp pupils aged 11–14, we examine how adolescents’ moral boundary making shifts (or not) during the course of a two-school year period, as they talk about whom they like to hang out with (or not), the diversity in their surroundings and in their friendship groups, and the (un)importance of ethnicity in their peer relations. The results show that adolescents initially draw three subtypes of moral boundaries (based on being “good-rebellious”, “stingy-generous” or “decent-indecent”) to emphasize so-called differences between the majority and minority groups; these boundaries, however, reportedly do not structure their friendship groups and even become disconnected from ethnicity in the latter research rounds. Moral boundaries that are set not to distinguish between ethnic majority and minority groups, but against the children of recently arrived immigrants (“established-outsider” boundaries), however, are salient in all three research rounds and are reportedly not crossed in our respondents’ friendship group formation.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Ethnicities. - London, 2001, currens
Publication
London : Sage , 2023
ISSN
1468-7968 [print]
1741-2706 [online]
DOI
10.1177/14687968231211440
Volume/pages
(2023) , p. 1-20
ISI
001090816500001
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Multiple identities and shared senses of belonging? A qualitative longitudinal analysis of children's identity formation in a super-diverse city.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Last edited 10.01.2024
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