Negotiated, Given and Self-Made Paths: Immigrant Origin Girls and Post-compulsory Educational Transition in Finland

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dc.contributor.authorMäkelä Marja-Liisa
dc.contributor.authorKalalahti Mira
dc.contributor.organizationfi=kasvatustieteiden laitos|en=Department of Education|
dc.contributor.organization-code2604100
dc.converis.publication-id178868304
dc.converis.urlhttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/178868304
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-27T23:07:02Z
dc.date.available2025-08-27T23:07:02Z
dc.description.abstract<p>Although Finland still has a relatively low proportion of students with a migrant background, it has not been able to ensure that immigrants and their descendants have equal educational opportunities. Education could enhance integration but migrant backgrounds have a persistent impact. In this chapter, our focus is on post-comprehensive educational decision-making processes of immigrant origin adolescent girls, with the viewpoint of the multifaceted intertwinement of gender and ethnicity. We conceptualise the educational decisions as negotiations that adolescents have to have with their families, teachers, counsellors and peers. Within these negotiations, the negotiating parties try to push the adolescent to choose those educational paths they see valued and preferred, and away from the choices they see as unfitting or less valued. As the girls ‘negotiate their identities according to situational contexts’, their agency is constructed with ongoing and reflective negotiations with other people. In this chapter, we show how adolescent girls with an immigrant background in Finland face quite similar difficulties as ethnic minorities in other European and Nordic countries when continuing their education from compulsory education. We also illustrate with three ‘transitional stories’ the key challenges that girls with immigrant backgrounds encounter when making their educational decisions and integrating to education: structural boundaries, social boundaries and acculturation.<br></p>
dc.format.pagerange335
dc.format.pagerange349
dc.identifier.eisbn978-981-19-8241-5
dc.identifier.isbn978-981-19-8240-8
dc.identifier.olddbid203422
dc.identifier.oldhandle10024/186449
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/11111/35242
dc.identifier.urlhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-8241-5_21
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2023031431464
dc.language.isoen
dc.okm.affiliatedauthorMäkelä, Marja-Liisa
dc.okm.discipline516 Educational sciencesen_GB
dc.okm.discipline516 Kasvatustieteetfi_FI
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationnot an international co-publication
dc.okm.internationalityInternational publication
dc.okm.typeA3 Book
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.countrySingaporeen_GB
dc.publisher.countrySingaporefi_FI
dc.publisher.country-codeSG
dc.publisher.isbn978-81-322;978-3-540;978-3-642;978-3-662;978-3-7908;978-3-8274;978-3-8347;978-90-481;978-94-007;978-94-009;978-94-010;978-94-011;978-94-015;978-94-017;978-94-024;978-0-387;978-0-8176;978-1-4419;978-1-4612;978-1-4613;978-1-4614;978-1-4615;978-1-4684;978-1-4757;978-1-4899;978-1-4939;978-1-5041;978-3-319;978-1-4020;978-0-85729;978-1-4471;978-1-84628;978-1-84800;978-1-84882;978-1-84996;978-1-85233;978-3-211;978-3-7091;978-4-431;978-3-322;978-3-409;978-3-531;978-3-658;978-3-663;978-3-8100;978-981-287;978-981-10;978-981-13;978-3-030;978-981-32;978-981-15;978-981-16;978-981-329;978-981-334;978-981-336;978-3-031;978-981-19;
dc.relation.doi10.1007/978-981-19-8241-5_21
dc.source.identifierhttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/186449
dc.titleNegotiated, Given and Self-Made Paths: Immigrant Origin Girls and Post-compulsory Educational Transition in Finland
dc.title.bookFinland’s Famous Education System : Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling
dc.year.issued2023

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