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Mizrachi, Maayan; Maxwell, Claire; Yemini, Miri – Education Inquiry, 2022
This study adds to the emerging body of literature on parental practices and trajectories of globally mobile middle-class families, by focusing on families belonging to diverse religious Jewish communities. Through an interview-based, in-depth analysis of three internationally mobile families representing various Jewish religious factions, we…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Middle Class, Role of Religion
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Yemini, Miri; Maxwell, Claire – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Travel has become ubiquitous for most social groups as holidaying abroad has become ever cheaper and ecumene. This paper considers how travel can be understood as part of family practices around children's educations and futures. Drawing on Kaufmann's concept of motility, we examine how spatial mobility might become a form of cultural capital to…
Descriptors: Travel, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Social Mobility
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Maxwell, Claire; Yemini, Miri – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
In this study, we explore how different forms of family mobility shape parental education strategies of three middle-class groups (moored Israeli professionals, immigrants from Israel to the UK and global middle class Israeli families). By focusing on families from the same nationality, we show how different practices of mobility differentiate…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Immigrants, Professional Personnel, Global Approach