Pathways fostering mobility to higher education for vulnerable immigrants in France, Switzerland and Canada

verfasst von

Jake Murdoch, Christine Guégnard, Maarten Koomen, Christian Imdorf, Canisius Kamanzi, Thomas Meyer

Abstract

In this article we wish to clarify not only if, but also how–through which institutional settings–higher education (HE) is accessed by students from vulnerable immigrant groups in France, Switzerland and Canada. We are interested in the possible educational mobility that immigrant youths can experience arising from country-specific educational policies designed to increase the enrolment in HE, particularly the flow from upper-secondary vocational educational tracks to HE ones. We analyse using panel data in each country the accessibility of different pathways to HE while taking into account the characteristics of the students. In terms of educational mobility, in France the democratization of the educational system, including the development of the vocational baccalauréat, has enabled more youths of immigrant background to access HE. In Switzerland and Canada there is more ‘cooling down’ and down-streaming of their educational aspirations towards non HE and more labour market-oriented pathways.

Externe Organisation(en)

Universite de Bourgogne
University of Bern
Université de Montréal

Typ

Artikel

Journal

European Journal of Higher Education

Band

7

Seiten

29-42

Anzahl der Seiten

14

ISSN

2156-8235

Publikationsdatum

02.01.2017

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Ausbildung bzw. Denomination

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 4 – Qualitativ hochwertige Bildung, SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2017.1254918 (Zugang: Unbekannt)