The gender role in the educational empowerment of migrant families from Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet countries

Ivashinenko, N. and Shatalina, V. (2016) The gender role in the educational empowerment of migrant families from Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet countries. Review of Social Studies, 3(2), pp. 33-43.

Abstract

This paper analyses the influence of gender roles in educational empowerment, and the motivation placed on children from migrant families of ethnic Russian-speaking minority school communities and their everyday practices. Interviews with parents and teachers were conducted, and observations of participants were made in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee schools. The findings show how gender roles that are functioning in migrant families are linked with building educational attitudes, and explore the mother's influence on children's educational motivation. Perspectives of these influences on educational empowerment are drawn, and this paper discusses how they are strongly connected with falling levels of poverty and positive integration into the local society of migrant children. These issues are especially important for migrant families. In addition, heritage language preservation is examined as one very important tool for the educational empowerment of migrant children.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Ivashinenko, Dr Nina
• Authors: Ivashinenko, N., and Shatalina, V.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences
• Journal Name: Review of Social Studies