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Heinz Bonfadelli | Media Use of Ethnic Minority Youth
54 is based on cultural studies, ethnography and visual methods. The in-
depth interviewing, in particular, offered insights into the relationship
between media and cultural identity and thus further differentiated the
findings from the quantitative investigation. This fieldwork highlights the
function that media and ICT play in processes of identity formation in
an inter-generational setting (see Hermann/Hanetseder 2007).
4. Results
4.1 Structural Inequalities: Parents and Children
A first issue deals with structural inequalities on the basis of background data
concerning the socio-economic status of the parents and the educational level
of the adolescents. Our comparative data demonstrate very pronounced
structural inequalities (Table 4): On the one hand, the social status of the Swiss
families is higher, and on the other hand, the educational level of Swiss
adolescents is significantly higher in comparison to adolescents from a migrant
background.
Socio-Economic Status of Family
Percentages Low Medium High
Swiss Youth 6 62 32
Migrants 34 40 26
Educational Level of Adolescents (Only Secondary School)
Percentages Low Medium High
Swiss Youth 5 44 51
Migrants 24 46 30
Table 4: Socio-Economic Status of Families and Educational Level of Adolescents
But inequalities exist independent of family background: Our data demonstrate
that, in general, more adolescents from a migration background have a lower
educational level, whereas more Swiss adolescents have higher levels of
education. This can be observed independently of the socio-economic status
or the educational background of their parents. Moreover, the influence of
ethnic background is especially strong among adolescents coming from ex-
Yugoslavia, whereas ethnic background seems to be much weaker among
adolescents coming from Italy.
Media – Migration – Integration
European and North American Perspectives
- Titel
- Media – Migration – Integration
- Untertitel
- European and North American Perspectives
- Autoren
- Rainer Geissler
- Horst Pöttker
- Verlag
- transcript Verlag
- Datum
- 2009
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-8376-1032-1
- Abmessungen
- 15.0 x 22.4 cm
- Seiten
- 250
- Schlagwörter
- Integration, Media, Migration, Europe, North America, Sociology of Media, Sociology
- Kategorie
- Medien