1st Edition

Children of Immigrants in Southern Europe Overcoming Ethnic Penalties

Edited By Giuseppe Gabrielli, Roberto Impicciatore Copyright 2025
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

The goal of successfully incorporating ethnic minorities represents a decisive challenge for modern societies. However, migratory background continues to negatively affect the life trajectories of migrants’ descendants. ‘Hard’ and ‘soft’ barriers determine long-term inequality gaps and low intergenerational social mobility in both longstanding and more recent European immigration countries.... Read more

Introduction – Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants

Giuseppe Gabrielli and Roberto Impicciatore


1. Understanding why immigrant children underperform: evidence from Italian compulsory

education

Moris Triventi, Eleonora Vlach and Elisa Pini

 

2. The academic resilience of native and immigrant-origin students in selected

European countries

Giuseppe Gabrielli, Sergio Longobardi and Salvatore Strozza

 

3. Home-school distance among native and immigrant-origin lower secondary students in

urban Northern Italy

Debora Mantovani, Giancarlo Gasperoni and Federica Santangelo

 

4. The occupational attainment and job security of immigrant children in Spain

Jacobo Muñoz-Comet and Albert F. Arcarons

 

5. Early career trajectories of first- and second-generation migrant graduates of

professional university

Barbara Belfi, Jim Allen, Babs Jacobs, Mark Levels and Kars van Oosterhout

 

6. The impact of physical separation from parents on the mental wellbeing of the children

of migrants

Héctor Cebolla Boado and Amparo González Ferrer

 

Biography

Giuseppe Gabrielli PhD, Professor of Demography at University of Naples Federico II (Italy). His interests focus on international migration and demographic behaviours of migrants and their descendants in Europe. He authored books on the integration of migrants and second generations in Italy. He published, among others, in the British Educational Research Journal, Demographic Research, European Journal of Population, International Migration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

 

Roberto Impicciatore PhD, Professor of Demography at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (Italy). His research interests focus mainly on international and internal migration, family dynamics and life courses in Europe. His works have been published, among others, in the European Journal of Population, International Migration, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place.