Children and adolescents with a refugee background are at high risk for traumatization.
Once they arrive in safe countries, schools are the institutions where teachers are …

Social comparisons with peers are important sources of self-development during
adolescence. Many previous studies showed that students' academic self-concepts (ASC) …

Forced migration has become a global megatrend, and many refugees are school aged. As
social integration is key to their wellbeing and success, it is pivotal to determine factors that …

Research on ethnic segregation in schools regularly assumed that ethnic homophily—the
tendency to befriend same-ethnic peers, above and beyond other mechanisms of tie …

Studies show that minority students who were born abroad or whose parents were born
abroad are less successful in school than their majority peers. However, little is known on …

The PROSPER (PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance
Resilience) Peers project has been impressive in many ways: researchers on this project …

Scott Feld's focus theory stimulated one of the most important traditions in the study of the
concept of homophily in connection to individual action and network behavior across …

How does the demographic composition of social contexts affect ethnic segregation in social
networks? Building on formal theory in the tradition of Peter M. Blau, we provide a theoretical …

Refugee adolescents in German schools have fewer friends and are more often rejected
than their classmates. However, refugees are less rejected in more diverse classrooms …