| Ethnicity, Children & Habitus: Ethnic Chinese School Children in Northern Ireland Contributor(s): Feng-Bing (Author) |
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ISBN: 303910585X ISBN-13: 9783039105854 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $108.21 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Education | Secondary - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 373.182 |
| LCCN: 2004063392 |
| Series: European University Studies: Series 22, Sociology |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.70 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is concerned with the ethnic experience of Chinese secondary school children living in Northern Ireland. The author analyses two sub-groups of Chinese children: those with parents coming from Hong Kong and those with parents coming from Mainland China. The purpose of this study is to investigate how these apparently 'Chinese' children feel about their ethnic identity. By drawing upon Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, and a cultural studies' approach to ethnicity and identity in general, the author examines the characteristics of cultural specificity and heterogeneity. Methodologically, the author has chosen an ethnographic approach. Prominence is given to the definitions, perspectives and voices of the children themselves by conducting open-ended, indepth and informal interviews and by doing so on an extended basis. The whole process continued for two and half years. Close attention was paid to the children's immediate circumstances, their parental occupations and their general social and cultural conditions. |