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Tamils, Social Capital and Educational Marginalization in Singapore: Labouring to Learn book cover

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Tamils, Social Capital and Educational Marginalization in Singapore Labouring to Learn

By Lavanya Balachandran Copyright 2022
170 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Labouring to Learn examines academic mobility pathways among ethnic minority Tamil youths in public secondary schools and vocational institutions in Singapore. This book qualitatively examines the interactive effects of race and class on the educational performance of these youths through the lens of social capital. Despite their numerical majoritarian position within the Indian population in... Read more

Introduction: The Mobility Question in Modern Singapore, 1. Youth and Educational Marginality in Multicultural Contexts, 2. Educational Mobility in a Multiracial City-State — A Social Capital Story, 3. The Politics of Racialization and Social Mobility amongst Ethnic Tamils in Singapore, 4. You are Normal: Contextualizing Schooling Experiences amongst Tamil Youths, 5. Being Tamil in Singapore Conclusion: Labouring to Learn

Biography

Lavanya BALACHANDRAN is a Lecturer at the College of Alice & Peter Tan, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests include inequality and stratification in Singapore with a specific focus on family, education, race and ethnicity and social networks.

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