Abstract
Despite the continuing inequality and so-called ‘ethnic gap’ in many Western European societies’ education, labour market and poverty rates, little is known about how minority ethnic children in these contexts experience the relationship between structural inequalities and opportunities in life. Based on in-depth interviews with 35 children aged 11-14, this article analyses how minority ethnic children in Flanders make sense of their social position and how they relate this position to unequal chances in life. Building on a cultural sociological approach, we describe how (1) socio-economically vulnerable children talk about their own social standing; (2) how they shift social class boundaries while they present themselves as socio-economically ‘normal’; and (3) how they perceive the relationship between structural inequality and ethnicity, and the potential impact of ethnic inequality on their own chances in life.
How to Cite
Kostet, I., Verschraegen, G. & Clycq, N., (2022) “Kinderen met een migratieachtergrond over hun sociale positie en levenskansen”, Tijdschrift Sociologie 3, 368–391. doi: https://doi.org/10.38139/TS.2022.29
