ABSTRACT
Bullying is a serious issue in schools among children from a migrant background; however, systematic investigations in multicultural settings are still limited. This first chapter defines the aim of this book, which is to fill this gap in the research literature and, more specifically, contribute with the result of the research undertaken in a COST-network, TRIBES, a European network of international researchers on the topic of migration and bullying that operated between 2019 and 2023. As the base for the different contributions in this book is Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological model, this chapter will present this framework and show how the different aspects and systems that are addressed in the different chapters relate to this framework. Moreover, an overview of the structures and members of TRIBES is given. As an introduction, this chapter also handles definitional issues of the concepts of bullying and migration.
