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Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School
Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration
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2008
Summary
One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of China for high school students from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in order to educate young Uyghur and other ethnic minority students through the national curricula.
Although the Xinjiang Classes are supposed to promote ethnic integration between the Muslim Uyghur minority and the Han majority, there often remains a gap between the stated policy goal and its actual implementation. Guided by the theoretical framework of social capital analysis, this book therefore examines how Uyghur students in the Xinjiang Classes respond to the school goal of ethnic integration.
Chen conceptualizes the process of Uyghur students' responses to the school goal of ethnic integration as social recapitalization. While their former social capital from families or communities in Xinjiang is constrained in the boarding school, Uyghur youths are able to develop independent and new social capital to facilitate their schooling. Nonetheless, they lack "bridging social capital," which makes the goal of ethnic integration more difficult to achieve.
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Edition
1/2008
Copyright Year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2112-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3384-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
211
Product Type
Monograph
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Chapter 1 Boarding Schools and National Unity No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 2 Social Capital, Ethnic Integration and Student Response No access Pages 11 - 28
Chapter 3 Uyghur Education in China No access Pages 29 - 42
Chapter 4 Ethnic Integration: Goal vs. Practice No access Pages 43 - 68
Chapter 5 Uyghur Students in the Xinjiang Classes No access Pages 69 - 94
Chapter 6 Social Networks No access Pages 95 - 122
Chapter 7 Norms of Uyghur Students No access Pages 123 - 140
Chapter 8 Special Events No access Pages 141 - 154
Chapter 9 The Negative Side of Social Capital No access Pages 155 - 168
Chapter 10 Process of Social Recapitalization No access Pages 169 - 184
