Peer Relationships at School : New Perspectives on Migration and Diversity / Emma Soye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soye, Emma, Author.

Contributor:

Wessendorf, Susanne, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. It is increasingly recognised that ethnonational frameworks are inadequate when examining the complexity of social life in contexts of migration and diversity. This book draws on ethnographic research in two UK secondary schools, considering the shifting roles of migration status, language, ethnicity, religion and precarity in young people's peer relationships. The book challenges culturalist understandings of social cohesion, highlighting the divisive impacts of neoliberalism, from pervasive temporariness and domestic abuse to technologization and neighbourhood violence. Using Martin Buber's relational model, the book explores the interplay of 'I-It' boundary-making with reciprocal 'I-Thou' encounters, pointing to the creative power of these encounters to subvert, reimagine, and even transform social difference. The author provides a pragmatic and ultimately hopeful view of the dynamics of diversity in everyday life, offering valuable insights for social policy and practice.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

I-It, I-Thou, and Migration Studies

Migration, Memory, and Uncertain Futures

Societal Myths and the Consequences of Freedom

Funny Language? Curiosity, Contact, and Humour

Navigating Precarity

Conclusions and Beyond

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9781529235760

OCLC:

1422039538