Examining educational inequalities in two national systems: a comparison of the North African second generation in France and the Mexican second generation in the United States
| Autor: | Yaël Brinbaum, Amy Lutz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Inequality
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration Ethnic group 050301 education 0506 political science Disadvantaged Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Parental education Drop out Political science 050602 political science & public administration North african Demographic economics 0503 education Disadvantage Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 43:2591-2615 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9451 1369-183X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1369183x.2017.1290522 |
| Popis: | This paper aims to compare the educational outcomes of children of immigrants in France and in the United States to highlight the ethnic educational inequalities in both countries. The comparison focuses on children from two groups: North Africans in France and Mexicans in the United States. By using two longitudinal datasets, the French Educational Panel Survey and Add Health, we examine aspirations, expectations, and secondary attainment in the two contexts. We explore in particular the role of parental education on attainment. Immigrant families have high educational aspirations in both contexts. North-African families express higher aspirations than native French with similar background, while there are no significant differences between second-generation Mexicans and the majority group net of parental education. Second-generation children are disadvantaged in school in both countries; they are more likely to drop out and less likely to graduate from high school, but most of the disadvantage i... |
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