Jan Skrobanek
Biographic Data
| ID | 339604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Skrobanek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Skrobanek |
| SIGNATURE | SKROBANEK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6714-8198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Youth Transition and Social Welfare
This series builds on the Springer Handbook on Childhood and Youth, and on the widespread interest in current issues that pertain to young people and children.The series contributes to the field of youth studies, which encompasses the disciplines of sociology, psychology, education, health, economics, social geography and cultural studies.Within these fields, there is a need to address two distinctive elements in relation to children and youth.Th…
Is the concept of subculture ‘unworkable’ as an analytical tool in youth sociology? A Swiss quantitative perspective on the subculture/post-subculture debate
Facilitating agency in Norwegian pupils struggling to stay in school—An alternative approach to emancipatory education
In this article we discuss a Norwegian alternative educational program which aids pupils struggling to stay in school. The practice displays an unconventional but promising approach to emancipatory education by facilitating agency in struggling pupils. We begin by providing some context on the Norwegian educational system and the Nordic model of education. Thereafter, we clarify our perception of educational equality and its underlying conditions…
Janus-faced discourse in contemporary Norwegian policy framing for tackling educational inequality? A critical analysis of contemporary tensions and contradictions
This paper focuses on contemporary tensions and contradictions in current Norwegian educational policy discourse. Based on critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Norwegian governmental white papers our analysis reveals that contemporary Norwegian policy formulation is torn between an egalitarian and a selection discourse about how to tackle educational inequality in the Norwegian comprehensive school system. The egalitarian discourse is characteris…
The Lives of Third-Country National Migrant Youth in Europe
The idea for this Special Issue emerged from the Editors’ collaboration on the framework of the European project MIMY: EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions [...]
Consonant and Dissonant Experiences-Young Migrants' Understandings of Integration
Our article addresses two aspects of young migrants' understandings of integration: their own ideas of what integration is, and their perception of the destination society's concepts and expectations regarding their integration. We analyze qualitative interviews which were conducted in the Horizon 2020 project MIMY, in Germany, Luxembourg and Norway, using the grounded theory methodology. Our exploration shows that the young migrants' awareness o…
Setting out for new shores! An explorative analysis of agency in youth employment mobility
Based on biographical interviews from an intra-European youth mobility study in Luxembourg and Norway the article aims to contribute to the debate on how to understand and account for complexities of agency in youth intra-European employment mobility. Critically reflecting and operationalising Emirbayer and Misches’s conceptualisation of agentic orientations in the field of intra-European employment mobility of young people, we a) explore the use…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Immigration
Until just a year ago, hardly anyone believed that the increasingly unrestrained growth in mobility could be so abruptly interrupted by a radical immobilisation of large population groups. Neither mobility studies nor other research fields had foreseen this kind of scenario in their mobility and migration models. In the past decades, the belief in unconstrained mobility, as well as the practice of mobility and its scientific modelling, relied on …
Capturing agency in different educational settings. A comparative study on youth perceptions of mobility-framing structures
The geographical mobility of young Europeans takes place within institutional realms that frame young people ́s educational and vocational situations. These institutional framings provide unequal preconditions for going abroad. Starting from an action-oriented theoretical approach, the aim of this work was to explore young people ́s international moves within different mobility settings. Based on 52 qualitative interviews with mobile youth from t…
Structural framework conditions and individual motivations for youth-mobility
European youth mobility seems to be fostering Europe’s unequal pace of integration, which sees certain countries benefit at the expense of others (Ohmacht et al., 2009; van Mol & Timmerman, 2014). Using a comparative approach, the paper aims to relate a macro-level country-typology focussing on human capital with individual mobility-motivations on the micro-level. Our methodological approach is based on a secondary macro-data analysis and analyse…
Why is it so hard? And for whom? Obstacles to intra-European mobility
Even though intra-European youth mobility is valued as a boost for personal and professional development, few opt for it. While obstacles preventing young people to become mobile have been discussed broadly, less attention has been paid to the obstacles for the youth who are already on the move. We offer this rare perspective in regard to intra-European mobility. We focus on youth in four types: pupil mobility, vocational (education and training)…
Class, Lifestyle and Substance Use among Adolescents
Against the backdrop of the continuing controversy regarding the interlinkage between social class, lifestyle and substance use of young people, the article reports the findings of an effort to assess the impact of adolescents’ cultural and economic capital and lifestyle practices on substance use. Drawing on Bourdieu’s work on class, lifestyle and practice, young people’s substance use can be seen as the product of class-specific capital endowme…
Successful placement or displacement in the transition from school to vocational training
A system of qualification options has evolved that is complementary to company-based and school-based vocational training. Thus far, these alternatives have been largely disregarded by vocational education research. Yet with respect to the number of annual entries, those alternatives are currently nearly as significant as conventional vocational training. However, the question remains still unanswered if those alternatives are to be regarded as o…
Cultural Differentiation or Self-Exclusion
Based upon Bourdieu's 'theory of capital' and Willis's 'theory of cultural production', the article scrutinizes the interrelation between perceived discrimination, self-exclusion and cultural differentiation. The empirical analysis is based on a longitudinal study by the German Youth Institute, which was set up to explore the transition of young Turks from school to vocational training and employment. The data point out that young immigrants who …
Perceived Discrimination, Ethnic Identity and the (Re-) Ethnicisation of Youth with a Turkish Ethnic Background in Germany
Previous discussion of the opportunities for young people with an ethnic minority background to integrate into society has focused on advantages or disadvantages caused by human capital or by ethnically motivated, individual, group or institutional discrimination within society. However, in recent years there has been a growing interest in subjectively or collectively perceived discrimination and its effects on ethnic identity and (re-)ethnicisat…
Begrenzung” durch kulturelles Kapital
Region und Nation
Region und Nation
Regionale Identifikation, negative Stereotypisierung und Eigengruppenbevorzugung
Die Beziehung zum Fremden ist Forschungsobjekt zahlreicher Disziplinen. Die Definition des Eigenen, des Sakralen und des Fremden hat neben ihrer kulturellen Einbindung einen starken Verweis auf Gruppe
Soziale Identität und Ausländerfeindlichkeit
Perceived Discrimination, Ethnic Identity and the (Re-) Ethnicisation of Youth with a Turkish Ethnic Background in Germany
Previous discussion of the opportunities for young people with an ethnic minority background to integrate into society has focused on advantages or disadvantages caused by human capital or by ethnically motivated, individual, group or institutional discrimination within society. However, in recent years there has been a growing interest in subjectively or collectively perceived discrimination and its effects on ethnic identity and (re-)ethnicisat…
Soziale Identität und Ausländerfeindlichkeit
Consonant and Dissonant Experiences-Young Migrants' Understandings of Integration
Our article addresses two aspects of young migrants' understandings of integration: their own ideas of what integration is, and their perception of the destination society's concepts and expectations regarding their integration. We analyze qualitative interviews which were conducted in the Horizon 2020 project MIMY, in Germany, Luxembourg and Norway, using the grounded theory methodology. Our exploration shows that the young migrants' awareness o…
Successful placement or displacement in the transition from school to vocational training
A system of qualification options has evolved that is complementary to company-based and school-based vocational training. Thus far, these alternatives have been largely disregarded by vocational education research. Yet with respect to the number of annual entries, those alternatives are currently nearly as significant as conventional vocational training. However, the question remains still unanswered if those alternatives are to be regarded as o…
Begrenzung” durch kulturelles Kapital
Is the concept of subculture ‘unworkable’ as an analytical tool in youth sociology? A Swiss quantitative perspective on the subculture/post-subculture debate
Cultural Differentiation or Self-Exclusion
Based upon Bourdieu's 'theory of capital' and Willis's 'theory of cultural production', the article scrutinizes the interrelation between perceived discrimination, self-exclusion and cultural differentiation. The empirical analysis is based on a longitudinal study by the German Youth Institute, which was set up to explore the transition of young Turks from school to vocational training and employment. The data point out that young immigrants who …
Region und Nation
Region und Nation
Regionale Identifikation, negative Stereotypisierung und Eigengruppenbevorzugung
Die Beziehung zum Fremden ist Forschungsobjekt zahlreicher Disziplinen. Die Definition des Eigenen, des Sakralen und des Fremden hat neben ihrer kulturellen Einbindung einen starken Verweis auf Gruppe
Soziale Identität und Ausländerfeindlichkeit
Begrenzung” durch kulturelles Kapital
Perceived Discrimination, Ethnic Identity and the (Re-) Ethnicisation of Youth with a Turkish Ethnic Background in Germany
Previous discussion of the opportunities for young people with an ethnic minority background to integrate into society has focused on advantages or disadvantages caused by human capital or by ethnically motivated, individual, group or institutional discrimination within society. However, in recent years there has been a growing interest in subjectively or collectively perceived discrimination and its effects on ethnic identity and (re-)ethnicisat…
Cultural Differentiation or Self-Exclusion
Based upon Bourdieu's 'theory of capital' and Willis's 'theory of cultural production', the article scrutinizes the interrelation between perceived discrimination, self-exclusion and cultural differentiation. The empirical analysis is based on a longitudinal study by the German Youth Institute, which was set up to explore the transition of young Turks from school to vocational training and employment. The data point out that young immigrants who …
Successful placement or displacement in the transition from school to vocational training
A system of qualification options has evolved that is complementary to company-based and school-based vocational training. Thus far, these alternatives have been largely disregarded by vocational education research. Yet with respect to the number of annual entries, those alternatives are currently nearly as significant as conventional vocational training. However, the question remains still unanswered if those alternatives are to be regarded as o…
Capturing agency in different educational settings. A comparative study on youth perceptions of mobility-framing structures
The geographical mobility of young Europeans takes place within institutional realms that frame young people ́s educational and vocational situations. These institutional framings provide unequal preconditions for going abroad. Starting from an action-oriented theoretical approach, the aim of this work was to explore young people ́s international moves within different mobility settings. Based on 52 qualitative interviews with mobile youth from t…
Structural framework conditions and individual motivations for youth-mobility
European youth mobility seems to be fostering Europe’s unequal pace of integration, which sees certain countries benefit at the expense of others (Ohmacht et al., 2009; van Mol & Timmerman, 2014). Using a comparative approach, the paper aims to relate a macro-level country-typology focussing on human capital with individual mobility-motivations on the micro-level. Our methodological approach is based on a secondary macro-data analysis and analyse…
Why is it so hard? And for whom? Obstacles to intra-European mobility
Even though intra-European youth mobility is valued as a boost for personal and professional development, few opt for it. While obstacles preventing young people to become mobile have been discussed broadly, less attention has been paid to the obstacles for the youth who are already on the move. We offer this rare perspective in regard to intra-European mobility. We focus on youth in four types: pupil mobility, vocational (education and training)…
Class, Lifestyle and Substance Use among Adolescents
Against the backdrop of the continuing controversy regarding the interlinkage between social class, lifestyle and substance use of young people, the article reports the findings of an effort to assess the impact of adolescents’ cultural and economic capital and lifestyle practices on substance use. Drawing on Bourdieu’s work on class, lifestyle and practice, young people’s substance use can be seen as the product of class-specific capital endowme…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Immigration
Until just a year ago, hardly anyone believed that the increasingly unrestrained growth in mobility could be so abruptly interrupted by a radical immobilisation of large population groups. Neither mobility studies nor other research fields had foreseen this kind of scenario in their mobility and migration models. In the past decades, the belief in unconstrained mobility, as well as the practice of mobility and its scientific modelling, relied on …
Setting out for new shores! An explorative analysis of agency in youth employment mobility
Based on biographical interviews from an intra-European youth mobility study in Luxembourg and Norway the article aims to contribute to the debate on how to understand and account for complexities of agency in youth intra-European employment mobility. Critically reflecting and operationalising Emirbayer and Misches’s conceptualisation of agentic orientations in the field of intra-European employment mobility of young people, we a) explore the use…
The Lives of Third-Country National Migrant Youth in Europe
The idea for this Special Issue emerged from the Editors’ collaboration on the framework of the European project MIMY: EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions [...]
Consonant and Dissonant Experiences-Young Migrants' Understandings of Integration
Our article addresses two aspects of young migrants' understandings of integration: their own ideas of what integration is, and their perception of the destination society's concepts and expectations regarding their integration. We analyze qualitative interviews which were conducted in the Horizon 2020 project MIMY, in Germany, Luxembourg and Norway, using the grounded theory methodology. Our exploration shows that the young migrants' awareness o…
Facilitating agency in Norwegian pupils struggling to stay in school—An alternative approach to emancipatory education
In this article we discuss a Norwegian alternative educational program which aids pupils struggling to stay in school. The practice displays an unconventional but promising approach to emancipatory education by facilitating agency in struggling pupils. We begin by providing some context on the Norwegian educational system and the Nordic model of education. Thereafter, we clarify our perception of educational equality and its underlying conditions…
Janus-faced discourse in contemporary Norwegian policy framing for tackling educational inequality? A critical analysis of contemporary tensions and contradictions
This paper focuses on contemporary tensions and contradictions in current Norwegian educational policy discourse. Based on critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Norwegian governmental white papers our analysis reveals that contemporary Norwegian policy formulation is torn between an egalitarian and a selection discourse about how to tackle educational inequality in the Norwegian comprehensive school system. The egalitarian discourse is characteris…
Youth Transition and Social Welfare
This series builds on the Springer Handbook on Childhood and Youth, and on the widespread interest in current issues that pertain to young people and children.The series contributes to the field of youth studies, which encompasses the disciplines of sociology, psychology, education, health, economics, social geography and cultural studies.Within these fields, there is a need to address two distinctive elements in relation to children and youth.Th…
Is the concept of subculture ‘unworkable’ as an analytical tool in youth sociology? A Swiss quantitative perspective on the subculture/post-subculture debate
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social science (10 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)