Leuven Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study

Staff

Prof. dr. Karen Phalet (primary investigator)

Prof. dr. Marc Swyngedouw

Prof. dr. Bart Meuleman

Prof. dr. Jaak Billiet

Viktor Emonds

Project description

The project adresses one of the prime challenges of West European societies, the achievement gap between minority and non-minority youth and the ensuing unequal opportunities later in life. It brings together existing expertise of Leuven-based socio-cultural and developmental psychologists and sociologists around a new socio-cultural approach of school adjustment trajectories. Our main empirical objective is to launch large-scale state-of-the-art longitudinal, multi-levelled and cross-nationally comparative data infrastructure on differential school adjustment trajectories. The project will provide new scientific insights into the critical junctures and the micro-processes that underlie the achievement gap.

Financed by

• Research Council KU Leuven - IDO/10/05
• FWO Predoctoral Fellowship (reference: 11N4315N)