“Tolerance vs. Inclusion: How Immigration Affects Education” a presentation by presentation by Malmberg Scholarship awardee, Faith L. Walls at the institute.
Walls spent a year in Sweden researching how immigration affects education, in particular at bullying/relational aggression among girls in a multi-cultural school setting. As a visiting researcher at Stockholm University, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Walls worked with 6th grade girls at two elementary schools in Södertälje, one of the most immigrant populated municipalities in all of Sweden. Södertälje has immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, including Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Somalia, and Israel.