A majority of the young people who contributed to the Save the Children Scotland study reported experiences of racism at school and in their communities.
Children mostly spoke positively about school and teachers, and looked forward to it more than holidays and weekends.
However, some felt teachers didn't encourage them to do well at school because they knew they couldn't afford to go to university.
Children were more likely than their parents to view Glasgow as their home, however.
There were 105 racist incidents in Glasgow schools in 2003 involving asylum-seeking and refugee children, up from 77 in 2002.
However, there were 150 more of those pupils in December 2003 than a year earlier.
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