ABSTRACT
This chapter looks into the future and elucidates the girls' ultimate career hopes by investigating the career choices of British ethnic minorities, the myth of unrealistic aspirations and the nature of career guidance offered to the girls. Immigrants in general are more ambitious than their counterparts from similar social and cultural backgrounds in the country of origin. In most cases, this is the fundamental reason why people emigrate. The development of career choices is a complex process. Roberts argues that neither school leavers nor adults typically choose occupations in a meaningful sense. Thus, career choice is not a straightforward process. Career guidance is an attempt to mediate between individual aspirations, talents and values on the one hand and social structures, demands and opportunities on the other. Contrary to what some other researchers contend, the chapter points to British Muslims' phenomenal aspirations to upward social mobility through the route of education and careers.
