British Pakistani Boys, Education and the Role of Religion

Students' educational drive and ethnic capital

“…Nor such analyses combined with racial discrimination or other features of racism. Despite the socioeconomic disadvantage of their parents, and their own, and racism, in several countries, some, even most, ethnic minority young people have been doing better than their white peers (Basit & Modood, 2016;Kao et al, 2013;Khattab, 2018;Modood, 2004;Strand, 2011). This is quite a sociological challenge; in Bourdieusian terms, groups with less access to dominant groups' economic, social and cultural capitals are doing better in state education and access to higher education, including prestigious institutions, than their white working-class peers.…”