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Does Culture Explain? Understanding Differences in School Attainment between Iberian and Turkish Youth in the Netherlands

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Any assessment of the socioeconomic position of a migrant group will inevitably be based on a comparison, either implicit or explicit. Usually the social performance of immigrants is measured against the standards of mainstream society. Inherent in such a comparison is an expectation that generations born and reared in the host society should ‘ideally’ conform to mainstream standards. If they do not, something is wrong.

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  1. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Hans Vermeulen (Professor and Co-Director of Research) (Professor and Co-Director of Research)

  2. Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, USA

    Joel Perlmann (Senior Scholar and Research Professor) (Senior Scholar and Research Professor)

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Lindo, F. (2000). Does Culture Explain? Understanding Differences in School Attainment between Iberian and Turkish Youth in the Netherlands. In: Vermeulen, H., Perlmann, J. (eds) Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985502_10

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