Isabelle - "I Can Do It"

Isabelle is of Sino-Laotian origin. The youngest of a family of four children, Isabelle is the only one among her siblings to have been born in France and to have been given a French name. She spent her childhood in the French neighbourhood of Haut Du Lièvre, but eventually decided to leave, due to the negative impression of the neighbourhood among outsiders, to pursue her education elsewhere. She credits much of her current success as a psychologist to the diversity of her former neighbourhood. To read more about Isabelle and her family's uplifting story.

Isabelle's story is the first of three illustrative cases that are being published from the French research context of EUMARGINS. 

By T. Sarin
Published May 27, 2011 2:04 PM - Last modified May 27, 2011 2:11 PM