Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference

Educational Choices and Attitudes Towards Multiculturalism and Assimilationism of the Majority and Minorities in Four Croatian Multiethnic Communities

“…Stoga dobiveni rezultati mogu poslužiti obrazovnim politikama u osmišljavanju manjinskog obrazovanja koje će biti usklađenije s potrebama i preferencijama manjina, ali i cjelokupnoga lokalnog stanovništva. Naime, mogućnost da i većina usvoji manjinski jezik koji se na nekom području široko upotrebljava može pridonijeti izgradnji pozitivnih međuetničkih odnosa i socijalne kohezije zajednica (Čorkalo Biruški i Ajduković, 2012b;Lambert, 1992;Murdock, 2016;Wright i Tropp, 2005).…”

“…U psihologijskoj se literaturi razlikuje multikulturalizam kao ideologija, dakle kao normativni društveni obrazac koji opisuje kakvo društvo treba biti, i kao stav prema političkoj ideologiji, koji podrazumijeva prihvaćanje i podršku kulturno heterogenom društvu (Murdock, 2016). Slično se može razumjeti i asimilacionizam, kao ideološki obrazac koji propisuje kako društvo treba izgledati i kao stav prihvaćanja i podrške kulturalno homogenom društvu, te uvjerenje da se sve kulturne grupe u društvu trebaju prilagoditi dominantnoj.…”

“…Kada je riječ o stavu prema asimilacionizmu, manjina ga zagovara još manje nego većina, a slične grupne razlike nalaze se i u drugim višeetničkim kontekstima (Guimond i sur., 2014;Murdock, 2016;Teney, 2011…”

School-Class Co-Ethnic and Immigrant Density and Current Smoking among Immigrant Adolescents

“…Almost 48% of the population of Luxembourg are foreign nationals, making Luxembourg the country with the highest proportion of foreign nationals in the EU (European Union) [26]. People of Portuguese nationality make up 37% of the foreign population and 16% of the whole population of Luxembourg [27,28], making them the largest immigrant group. As a consequence of the large number of immigrants in general and of immigrants of Portuguese descent in particular in Luxembourg, immigrant adolescents of Portuguese descent in Luxembourg attend school-classes that vary considerably both in immigrant and co-ethnic density, providing us with the ideal setting to investigate those ethnic compositional effects.…”

“…Since then, the number of people of Portuguese descent in Luxembourg has risen steadily. Due to a continued influx of Portuguese immigrants, second-generation immigrants of Portuguese descent live alongside very recent immigrants from Portugal [28]. In contrast to many immigrants from earlier immigration waves to Luxembourg, intergenerational upward social mobility is less common among immigrants from Portugal and, on average, their level of education is lower than that of native Luxembourgers or other immigrant groups [28,30].…”