ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on South Asian adolescents in a multi-ethnic comprehensive school in South Wales. It devotes to teachers' opinions about Asian pupils; another on interviews with Asian pupils and another deals with British pupils. The chapter deals with ethnic boundaries, and the social identity of Asian pupils in the school. It shows observation of interaction and associational patterns of participants, in classrooms and other situations within school. The South Asian girls in the school, most of whom were Pakistani Muslims, said that by and large, they socialised with members of their own community. The second generation South Asian students, on the other hand, were comparatively better off. They were in a position to understand the system of education and its procedures. For these pupils, education was a means to future success, to make their lives more secure by effective participation in wider society despite the difficulties they may have faced due to their membership of an ethnic minority group.
