It is all about “Hope”: Evidence on the immigrant optimism paradox

H Cebolla-Boado, A González Ferrer… - Ethnic and racial …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the immigrant educational optimism hypothesis using data from
Spain. Specifically, we examine the nature of higher educational expectations among …

Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education

CJ Gil-Hernández, I Pañeda-Fernández… - Sociological …, 2024 - sociologicalscience.com
Teachers are the evaluators of academic merit. Identifying if their assessments are fair or
biased by student-ascribed status is critical for equal opportunity but empirically challenging …

Goal pursuit during the three stages of the migration process

A Toth-Bos, B Wisse, K Farago - International Journal of Intercultural …, 2019 - Elsevier
Migration poses a strong contextual change for individuals and it necessitates the
adjustment of goals and aspirations. Although goal-related processes seem highly relevant …

Are they still aiming high? The development of educational aspirations of lower secondary school students with immigrant backgrounds in Germany

B Becker, C Gresch… - International Migration …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Although research indicates that students with immigrant backgrounds often have higher
educational aspirations than students without immigrant backgrounds at the same …

Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France

A Ferrara - European Sociological Review, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The children of immigrants usually make more ambitious enrolment choices than native
students with comparable socioeconomic status and academic achievement. Less is known …

Ambitious, misaligned, or uncertain? The occupational and educational aspirations of immigrant-origin youth in Germany

A Ferrara, Z Salikutluk - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Immigrant-origin students often hold higher educational aspirations than native-origin peers,
accounting for socioeconomic status and school grades. The consequences of this …

Immigrant optimism or immigrant pragmatism? Linguistic capital, orientation towards science and occupational expectations of adolescent immigrants

J Sikora, A Pokropek - Large-Scale Assessments in Education, 2021 - Springer
Background S tudies demonstrate that occupational optimism can boost adolescents'
academic attainment and perseverance in education. To contribute to this literature, we …

The occupational attainment and job security of immigrant children in Spain

J Muñoz-Comet, AF Arcarons - Journal of Ethnic and Migration …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Little is known about the labour market integration of immigrants who arrived in Spain at an
early age. Using longitudinal data from the Spanish LFS (2008–2016) we find that other …

Expecting to achieve against the odds: Anti‐immigrant sentiment and immigrants' educational and occupational expectations in Europe

V Chykina - European Journal of Education, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Scholars have identified many factors that lead to changes in anti‐immigrant sentiment. Less
is known, however, about the effects of anti‐immigrant sentiment on the academic …

The impact of migration on optimism and subjective well-being: Evidence from the Indonesian Family Life Survey

N Alabshar, SR Giyarsih, AJ Pitoyo - Journal of Population and …, 2024 - so03.tci-thaijo.org
When migrating, a person will expect better well-being than they had in their area of origin.
Much research only focuses on how migration affects objective well-being, even though …