Social Exclusion among Peers: The Role of Immigrant Status and Classroom Immigrant Density

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1275-1288

  Plenty, Stephanie ^a,b   Jonsson, Jan O ^a,b,c  

^a Institute for Futures Studies   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Ethnic composition; Immigrant; School segregation; Social exclusion; Victimization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTEGRATION; JUVENILE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; STUDENT; ADOLESCENT; BULLYING; CRIME VICTIM; ETHNIC GROUP; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; MINORITY GROUP; PEER GROUP; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; BULLYING; CRIME VICTIMS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PEER GROUP; STUDENTS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84987644138     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0564-5     Document Type: Article

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