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SUMMARY:Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Karoly Takas (Linkoping Universi
 ty) - Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minor
 ity Peer Group? Friendship\, Ethnic Identification\, and Labeling
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DESCRIPTION:It is a puzzle whether and how social exclusion mechanisms hi
 nder the academic performance of disadvantaged minority groups. Using un
 ique social network panel data from elementary school students in Hungar
 y\, we test different predictions of the cultural-ecological theory amon
 g the Roma\, one of the largest ethnic minority groups in Europe. First\
 , we investigate whether high-achieving Roma students are excluded from 
 the minority peer group (acting white hypothesis). Second\, we examine w
 hether high-achieving Roma students aim at passing for white by disident
 ifying with their ethnic minority group (disidentification hypothesis). 
 Third\, we test whether peers and teachers perceive high-achieving Roma 
 students as belonging to the non-Roma group (labeling hypothesis). The f
 indings contradict the acting white and the disidentification hypotheses
 . In line with the labeling hypothesis\, however\, higher academic achie
 vement is associated with a lower likelihood of being perceived as Roma.
  This indicates that with high achievement\, Roma students might lose th
 eir ethnic membership as perceived by others. In the second part of the 
 talk\, we explore the internal logical consistency of theoretical accoun
 ts of oppositional culture by rigorously investigating the above micro m
 echanisms and their consequences on the expected gap in effort between m
 embers of the advantaged and disadvantaged group with Agent-Based Models
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LOCATION:2.016\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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