Migrant penalties in educational achievement : second-generation Immigrants in Western Europe / Camilla Borgna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borgna, Camilla, author.

Series:

Changing welfare states

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of immigrants--Education--Europe, Western.

Children of immigrants.

Children of immigrants--Education--Government policy--Europe, Western.

Education and state--Social aspects--Europe, Western.

Education and state.

Education and state--Social aspects.

Children of immigrants--Education.

Government policy.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]

Summary:

The integration of second-generation immigrants has proved to be a major challenge for Europe in recent years. Though these people are born in their host nations, they often experience worse social and economic outcomes than other citizens. This volume focuses on one particular, important challenge: the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants. Looking at data from seventeen European nations, Camilla Borgna shows that migrant penalties in educational achievement exist in each one - but that, unexpectedly, the penalties tend to be greater in countries in which socioeconomic inequalities in education are generally more modest, a finding that should prompt reconsideration of a number of policy approaches.

Contents:

1 Introduction 13

1.1 Children of migrants in Europe: which equal opportunities? 13

1.2 The promise of diversity-oriented methods 18

1.3 Structure of the book 21

2 Conceptual framework and case selection 25

2.1 Social inequalities in education 25

2.2 Educational systems as opportunity structures 28

2.3 Defining children of immigrants 32

2.4 Case selection: comparing immigration societies 35

2.5 Educational systems in Western Europe 40

3 The educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in Western Europe 47

3.1 Previous studies 47

3.1.1 A double disadvantage 49

3.1.2 The role of teachers, classrooms, and schools 58

3.1.3 Cross-country differences 62

3.2 Migrant penalties in educational achievement 72

3.2.1 Research questions and hypotheses 73

3.2.2 Analytical strategy 75

3.2.3 Data, operationalization, and models 78

3.2.4 Results and discussion 81

3.3 Compound disadvantages 89

3.3.1 Research questions 90

3.3.2 Analytical strategy 91

3.3.3 Operationalization: fuzzy-set calibration 93

3.3.4 Results and discussion 94

4 The role of educational systems for migrant learning disadvantage 99

4.1 Previous studies 99

4.1.1 Educational institutions and socioeconomic disadvantage 99

4.1.2 Educational institutions and migrant learning disadvantage 100

4.1.3 Cross-country explanatory studies 104

4.2 Hypotheses formulation 110

4.2.1 Theoretically relevant dimensions of educational systems 110

4.2.2 Contextual factors 113

4.3 Analytical strategy 115

4.4 Operationalization 117

4.4.1 Variable construction 117

4.4.2 Fuzzy-set calibration 120

4.5 Results from a variable-oriented approach 124

4.5.1 Bivariate correlations 124

4.5.2 Multivariate analysis 127

4.5.3 Regression-tree analysis 129

4.6 Results from a diversity-oriented approach 132

4.6.1 Assessing individual necessity and sufficiency 132

4.6.2 Institutional configurations 138

4.6.3 fsQCA: model construction and robustness checks 140

4.6.4 Final fsQCA results and discussion 147

5 Conclusions 159

5.1 Key findings 159

5.2 Methodological contributions 165

5.3 Policy implications 167

5.4 Limitations and outlook 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index.

ISBN:

9789462981348

9462981345

OCLC:

957507615