Vincent, C;
Neal, S;
Iqbal, H;
(2017)
Encounters with Diversity: Children's Friendships and Parental Responses.
Urban Studies
, 54
(8)
pp. 1974-1989.
10.1177/0042098016634610.
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Abstract
This paper reports on a project exploring the friendships of children and adults in 'super-diverse' (Vertovec 2007) localities in London, England, examining whether and how friendships are made and maintained across ethnic and social class differences. The aim is to identify what friendships reveal about the nature and extent of ethnic and social divisions in contemporary multicultural society. Drawing on interviews with children and their parents, this paper analyses affective parental responses to their children’s friendships, identifying instances where parents seek to manage these friendships. We identify the importance of the ‘ease of similarity’ for many parents concerning their children’s friendships, and the relative lack of concrete practices amongst parents to support their children’s friendships across difference. However, we also note parental support for living in super-diverse localities and children attending schools therein.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Encounters with Diversity: Children's Friendships and Parental Responses |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098016634610 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016634610 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Diversity, social class, ethnicity, friendship, schools |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475913 |
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