De-Coupling or Remaining Closely Coupled to 'Home': Educational Strategies around Identity-Making and Advantage of Israeli Global Middle-Class Families in London

Autor/inn/en	Yemini, Miri; Maxwell, Claire
Titel	De-Coupling or Remaining Closely Coupled to 'Home': Educational Strategies around Identity-Making and Advantage of Israeli Global Middle-Class Families in London
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39 (2018) 7, S.1030-1044 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2018.1454299
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Middle Class; Family (Sociological Unit); Mothers; Migrants; Jews; Politics; Mother Attitudes; Child Rearing; Education; United Kingdom (London); Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mittelschicht; Familie; Mother; Mutter; Migrantin; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Politik; Mutterliebe; Kindererziehung; Bildung; Erziehung
Abstract	This article makes an empirical contribution to the study of the global middle class (GMC), and sheds light on the complex relationships that are constructed and sustained by these families with their 'home nation' through their educational strategies. Drawing on an inductive analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with Israeli migrant mothers in the United Kingdom who constitute a specific fraction of the GMC, this article examines families' identity constructions and how these shape their educational practices. The participants constitute a growing phenomenon -- highly educated, mobile middle-class families who live and move around the world, and position themselves using global frames of references. We emphasise how country of origin acts as a symbolic object in the cultivation of their children's identity and how different types of attachment to 'home nation' are perceived as offering valuable capital for the GMC. The article therefore contributes much-needed empirical analyses on education strategies within the GMC, and challenges the suggestion that critical to the definition of the GMC is that they are 'rootless'. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01