National Identity Development Among Minority Youth: Longitudinal Relations with National Fit Perceptions and School Belonging.

ABSTRACT: Across Western Europe, immigrant-origin minority youth often struggle to belong socially and to develop national self-identification. Yet, almost no research to-date has asked how these youth perceive the cultural contents of the national identity in their residence country-or rather, to what extent they perceive youth like them to (mis)fit the national identity. The present study addressed this research gap by centering schools as developmental contexts of evolving belonging and national self-identification and newly inquiring into minority youth's perceptions of national (mis)fit as critical levers of their national identity development. Drawing on data from two annual waves of the Leuven-Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (Leuven-CILS), a sample of 942 Moroccan- and Turkish-origi

SUBMITTER: Gharaei N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11534893 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature