The educational choices of adopted students

Abstract

Students with an adoptive background are in a condition of multiple intersectionalities with an overlap of different identities: adoptive, ethnic, ability, which puts them in a position of possible multiple discrimination. To better assess critical issues and actual resources of such students and of their social environment, our work intends to investigate their educational choices in comparison with those of their adoptive parents and how this data vary from research on intergenerational educational mobility in Italy. We also want to better understand the outcomes of such choices and formative paths. Particular attention is so devoted to critical issues in high school years, post-diploma education, first job experiences.