This Part 3 of my exploration into educational outcomes for migrants. You can find Part I and Part II here. In this post, I will be looking specifically at outcomes for migrants in Germany – how do migrants fare educationally in comparison with German natives? Education is seen as a way in which migrant families […]
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Educational Outcomes for Migrants in Russia: Part II
This post is part two of my exploration into the educational outcomes of migrants and their children. You can find Part One here. I will be looking at this topic in the context of Russia. Are there differences in education attainment and achievement between native and migrant children? If so, what contributes to this? Russia […]
Migration and Education: Part I
In my next few blog posts, I will be exploring the topic of education as it relates to migrants. I aim to answer the questions: do migrants have access to education at the same level as natives? If not, why? I will be attempting to answer these questions in the context of Germany and Russia, […]
Assimilation and Belonging: Identity in Migrant Accounts
In our very first class, we discussed why migration tends to elicit such big emotions. Why is the topic of migration, for example, such an emotive political issue in the United States? De Haas says that migration is contentious and emotive because it conjures up themes of belonging and identity, both of which are very […]
“Dirty Labor”: Construction Workers in Russia
Why do migrants work in jobs that natives shun? And why do natives resent them for it? In many of the cases we have studied so far, there seems to be a disconnect between the economic realities of a country and the attitudes of its citizens. In the case of Russia, we see that migrant […]
How words matter – from Germany, Kazakhstan, and the US
De Haas emphasized that the way we speak about migration matters, not only to our discourse, but also to the lived experiences of migrants. Using “migrant worker” instead of “expat” indicates a particular idea about the person in question. We perhaps think “unskilled” or it brings up certain ideas of race and ethnicity. De Haas […]