1st Edition

Young People, Social Capital and Ethnic Identity

Edited By Tracey Reynolds Copyright 2011
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories, language, customs, traditions and values. However, bridging forms of social capital allow new... Read more

1. Introduction: Young people, social capital and ethnic identity  Tracey Reynolds – London South Bank University

2. In Transition: Young people in Northern Ireland growing up in, and out of, divided communities  Sheena McGrellis – Ulster University

3. Growing up affiliated with a religious minority: Finnish Adventist young people’s identities, socialization and social capital  Arniika Kussisto – University of Helsinki

4. Transnational family networks, cultural belonging and social capital among second-generation British-Caribbean Returning Migrants  Tracey Reynolds – London South Bank University

5. Solidarity and reciprocity in the everyday life of Italian young people: the positive and negative sides of social capital  Elisabetta Zontini – University of Nottingham

6. Young South Asian women in Higher Education: aspirations and social capital  Shaminder Takhar – London South Bank University

7. Racial identity, social capital and care leavers: risk and protective factors  Ravinder Barn – Royal Holloway, University of London

8. "True stories from bare times on road": Developing empowerment, identity and social capital among urban minority ethnic young people in London, U.K.  Daniel Briggs – London South Bank University

9. Young people’s social capital: complex identities and dynamic networks  Susie Weller – London South Bank University

10. Conclusion - Tracey Reynolds with the Families and Social Capital Collective

Biography

Tracey Reynolds is a Senior Research Fellow at the Families and Social Capital Research Group, London South Bank University.