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- Uses a Bourdieusian framework to analyse how British Pakistani women achieve social mobility
- Analyses the navigation of intersecting identities to see how career trajectories are created
- Captures stories within the community that reflect important trends and ways of thinking on a wider level
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the career aspirations, achievements and consequent social mobility of a group of British Pakistani women. It uses Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to analyse how these women, living in a segregated Pakistani community located in a deprived northern town in the UK with poor employment opportunities, acquired the resources to pursue further and higher education, obtain qualifications and enter professional careers. The author discusses and analyses how cultural capital features in homes, schools and workplaces, as well as how the women navigate and modify intersecting gender, ethnic and class identities in order to create specific career trajectories. Illuminating the rich intersections of biography, history and society, the author captures important qualitative data which acts as a microcosm for contemporary discussions on social mobility, multiculturalism, Muslim communities, race, and gender in Britain.
Authors and Affiliations
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Oxford, UK
Aqsa Saeed
About the author
Aqsa Saeed is a UK-based scholar. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, teaching English in a secondary school and then in a pupil referral unit, she completed her PhD at the Open University. Her current academic interests are in educational research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education, Aspiration and Upward Social Mobility
Book Subtitle: Working Class British Women
Authors: Aqsa Saeed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82261-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82260-6Published: 01 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82263-7Published: 02 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82261-3Published: 28 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 247
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Gender and Education, Ethnicity in Education