This edited book is a rich and diverse collection of chapters examining the educational transitions of marginalized and multilingual migrant youth across six countries in Northern Europe. Contributions analyze and discuss the transitions from intersectional perspectives such as religion, nationality, socio-economic condition, gender, and language. This intersection of background, personal, societal, cultural, and educational variables emphasize the need to remove barriers and adapt educational spaces to be more inclusive and socially just. The book will be of interest to students and academics in education, child and youth studies, migration studies, sociology and sociolinguistics.
1. Introduction.- Part I.-
2. Transitions of Migration-Oriented
Educational Motivation from Parents to Adolescent Children in Denmark.-
3.
Transitioning across educational and geographical lines: Young people with a
refugee background in rural Iceland negotiating higher education and
employment opportunities.-
4. Imagined futures and current realities:
challenges facing Syrian young people and their families in England.-
5.
Becoming Through Orientation: Gender, Class, and Processes of Minoritisation
in the Narratives of Three Prospective After-School Educare Teachers
(grundlärare i fritidshem).-
6. Linguistic Conditions of Possibility in
Swedish Teacher Education.-
7. Navigating Transitions: Enhancing the
Educational Integration of Newly Ar-rived Students in Norwegian Upper
Secondary School.- Part II.-
8. The street as a transitional cul-de-sac, A
case study on a young mans pathways through education.-
9. Navigating a
Narrow Track Transition From Compulsory School to Secondary School Wived as
a Risk for Young People in Territorially Stigmatized Areas.-
10. Keeping
Children Out of Criminal Activities in Sweden Control by Change of
Schools.-
11. Muslim Upper Secondary School Students in Transition:
Navigating Vulnerability Through School Choice.- Part III.-
12. Transition to
fifth grade, A team of teachers meeting challenges in linguistically diverse
classrooms.-
13. Supporting migrant students agency in text events through
strategic tutoring A microethnographic case study of the Finnish sixth
grade.-
14. Childrens Expressions of Resistance in a School-Preparing
Language Training Programme for Minoritised Children.-
15. Inclusive
transition to school discourses of continuities and discontinuities in
educational support.-
16. Multilingual childrens transitions from preschool
to compulsory school in Iceland.-
17. Opportunities and challenges of young
Icelanders with migrant back-grounds: Three stories of multiple transitions.-
18. Navigating Educational Pathways: School Transitions Among Syrian and
Iraqi Refugee Youth in Iceland.-
19. Disruptions in transitions.
Anna-Lena Borg is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, University West, Sweden.
Helene Fransson is a PhD student in the Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Renata Emilsson Peskova is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Iceland.
