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Tamils, social capital and educational marginalization in Singapore : labouring to learn / Lavanya Balachandran.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balachandran, Lavanya, author.
- Series:
- Routledge critical studies in Asian education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tamil (Indic people)--Education--Singapore.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Educational mobility--Singapore.
- Educational mobility.
- Marginality, Social--Social aspects--Singapore.
- Marginality, Social.
- Social capital (Sociology)--Singapore.
- Social capital (Sociology).
- Tamil (Indic people)--Singapore--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Social aspects.
- Tamil (Indic people)--Education.
- Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 159 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Laboring to learn
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Lavanya BALACHANDRAN is a Lecturer at the College of Alice & Peter Tan, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests include inequality and stratification in Singapore with a specific focus on family, education, race and ethnicity and social networks.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The mobility question in modern Singapore
- Youth and educational marginality in multicultural contexts
- Educational mobility in a multiracial city-state
- a social capital story
- The politics of racialization and social mobility amongst ethnic Tamils in Singapore
- You are normal : Contextualizing schooling experiences amongst Tamil youths
- Being Tamil in Singapore
- Conclusion : Labouring to learn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Balachandran, Lavanya. Tamils, social capital and educational marginalization in Singapore
- ISBN:
- 9780429030406
- 0429030401
- 0429641605
- 9780429635267
- 0429635265
- 9780429638435
- 0429638434
- 9780429641602
- Publisher Number:
- 40030723734
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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