| Summary/Abstract |
This article explores how Mizrahi students from Israel’s periphery, first-generation students of higher education, describe the meaning of the categories of ethnicity and periphery on their path to academe. The data were drawn from in-depth interviews with 25 students, born to two Mizrahi parents, who grew up in the country’s periphery. The findings indicate clearly that the ethnic-Mizrahi discourse has been replaced by a class-periphery discourse. They also show that the main agent of the students’ acquisition of quality pre-academic education and higher education was not school but rather the parents.
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