Aina Tarabini is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and Researcher at the GEPS (Globalisation, Education and Social Policy) Research Centre, Spain. Her research focuses on educational inequalities, particularly on the study of youth dispositions, choices and transitions.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Analysing ESL from the perspective of educational exclusion.- Chapter 3. An analytical framework for understanding educational exclusion: excluded from what, how and who?.- Chapter 4. Exclusion as lack of redistribution: school segregation as a paradigm.- Chapter 5. Exclusion as lack of recognition: simplistic models for understanding and addressing diversity.- Chapter 6. Exclusion as lack of care: the importance of teacher expectations.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.