Lecture on Immigrant Student Integration Now Available Online
SOFI professors Jan O. Jonsson and Carina Mood, recently presented their research findings at a lecture at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Their research focuses on the integration of children and youth with immigrant backgrounds in Swedish schools.
Jonsson and Mood's research shows, among other things, that students with foreign backgrounds generally have stronger school engagement and higher ambitions compared to their native-born peers. Despite some challenges for newly arrived students, the study shows that school integration is going better than many believe.
This project aims to describe and understand the fundamentals of integration of youth, and its variation across five countries (Norway, Sweden, England, Germany and the Netherlands). We use the large-scale CILS4EU/CILS-NOR data on young people of immigrant and majority origins.
Research at the Level of Living-unit includes studies of individuals' living conditions, social stratification and economic and social inequality. Here we study what living conditions in society look like today for both adults and children, and how the standard of living in society has changed over time and between generations.