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This chapter draws on extensive survey data on child, family and neighbourhood well-being in the Republic of Ireland (hereafter Ireland) to examine the nature and extent of immigrant social exclusion. Social inclusion, hitherto defined in terms of income and employment, increasingly is defined in terms of well-being and social capital and as such, constitutes an essential ingredient of immigrant integration. Our aim in this chapter is to use a narrow focus on immigrant child well-being (understood in terms of social and behavioural outcomes) as a means of contributing to broader academic debates about the integration of recent immigrants from a social policy perspective. More specifically, the wider debates to which this chapter contributes concern the empirical relationships between social inclusion, well-being and social capital on one hand, and normative understandings of the relationship between social inclusion and integration on the other.
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Fanning, B., Haase, T., O’Boyle, N. (2011). Immigrant Child Well-Being and Cultural Capital. In: Darmody, M., Tyrrell, N., Song, S. (eds) The Changing Faces of Ireland. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-475-1_10
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