“First-generation student”: a helpful or stigmatising label in Dutch student life? - Lieve de Coninck

What happens when an etic category or label like “first-generation students” enters public discourse? In the Netherlands, public discussions of first-generation or first-in-family students and their predicaments have arisen in recent years. But few people grow up thinking of themselves in those terms. Not a common identity-marker, the concept is introduced in other moments, like in news items or in participatory research projects. But to what effect? And does it stigmatize or help?

Article by Lieve de Coninck, illustrated by Eline Veldhuisen, read by Rosalie Post

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