Higher Education, Youth and Migration in Contexts of Disadvantage Understanding Aspirations and Capabilities /

• Main Author: Mkwananzi, Faith (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: International education .; Comparative education.; Maturation (Psychology).; Educational sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; International and Comparative Education.; Personal Development.; Sociology of Education.; Migration.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book explores the lives, experiences and the formation of higher educational aspirations among marginalised migrant youth in South Africa. Using a case study based in Johannesburg, the author illuminates their voices in order to demonstrate the reality faced by these young people in the context...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Contextualising Youth Migration and Education
• Chapter 2. Migrant Stories: A Picture of Youth Migration in Southern Africa
• Chapter 3. Education, Youth and Migration from a Capability Lens
• Chapter 4. Higher Educational Aspirations Formation in Contexts of Disadvantage
• Chapter 5. Understanding Migrants Valued Capabilities and Functionings
• Chapter 6. Capabilities and Barriers to Higher Education Aspirations Formation for Marginalised Migrants
• Chapter 7. An Intersectional Analysis of Capabilities, Conversion Factors and Aspirations
• Chapter 8. Looking Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals.