Tamils, Social Capital and Educational Marginalization in Singapore: Labouring to Learn

ISBN-13: 9780367141288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str.

BALACHANDRAN

Opis

This volume examines how social capital mediates the interactive effects of race and class on educational underperformance among Singaporean Tamil secondary school students. It aims to address social inequality in non-liberal multicultural contexts.

O autorze

Lavanya BALACHANDRAN is a Lecturer at the College of Alice & Peter Tan, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests include inequality and stratification in Singapore with a specific focus on family, education, race and ethnicity and social networks.