University of Helsinki
“Schools usually neglect to examine how the structural forces of institutionalized racism and transnational ties of identities of immigrants are often tied to contexts of learning and teaching that are connected to diverse localities, cultures, and contradictory conceptions of identity. The focus is usually on minority students’ lack of motivation, academic disengagement, and how low literacy skills rather than examining the role of the complex processes of identity formation that shape radicalized minority and immigrant populations” (Sunil Bhatia, 2011: 77)