In contrast, her study states that friendships between migrants and non-migrants at Charrington Academy were very common. She draws on Vertovec’s idea of identity matching which makes this possible. Charringtons’ non-migrant population is extremely diverse therefore it is easy for the migrant children to identity match, while the non-migrant population at Bridgehurst is mainly white-British. The teacher-pupil relations within schools are also important, as teachers are likely to transport their views from wider society and channel them into the school. Reynolds found that at Bridgehurst, teachers often generalised and held certain stereotypes on children from certain ethnic groups – it was clear that racism was rife even within the staff at
