 | British-Bangladeshi Women in Higher Education: Aspirations, Inequities and Identities Subjects: Education; Social Sciences; Sociology of Education; Sociology & Social Policy; Equality & Human Rights; Gender & Sexuality; Social Class; Sociology of the Family; Sociology of Work & Industry; Gender Studies; Race & Ethnic Studies; Social Policy; Sociology of Religion; Drawing on primary qualitative research, this book explores the experiences and identities of a group of British-born women of Bangladeshi background attending university in London through a Bourdieusian theoretical framework. It demonstrates the inequities that these women experience in UK higher education and employment as well as how they challenge them. This book presents stories that illuminate the diversity of views and experiences marked by dynamics of class, race, ethnicity, religion and gender. These stories reveal family projects of social mobility and discourses of aspiration, the multiple resources and constraints that influence decisions, experiences and pathways, and the mutual construction of different dimensions of identification and tensions between them. Through participants' narratives, the book tackles wider questions around fair access to education and employment, social mobility and the (re)production and transformation of social inequities. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Youth, Education, Race/Ethnicity and Migration Sociology, as well as community and education practitioners and anyone with an interest in multi-ethnic societies and young people's histories. Berenice Scandone is Research Director at the National Centre for Social Research in London. She is passionate about understanding and redressing social inequities, especially as they materialise in and through education. Her research interests include intersecting inequities of class, ethnicity and gender, the intergenerational integration of immigrants, education policy and the sociology of education. |
