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The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the
patterns of ethnic educational inequality among the 'second
generation' (that is of the children of migrants born in the
country of destination) in secondary schools and higher education
in ten western countries - Belgium, Britain, Canada, Finland,
France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.
These are countries which have become increasingly diverse in
recent years and which provide a range of educational systems,
immigration rules, and integration policies. The experience of the
second generation, who have been born and educated in the countries
of destination, is widely seen as being a crucial test of whether
western liberal democracies live up to their professed ideals of
fairness and meritocracy. Education is likely to be crucial for the
future integration of ethnic minorities, with important
implications for social cohesion. The book investigates the
educational careers of the second-generation groups using
large-scale national datasets and harmonised analyses of outcomes
in order to identify patterns of success and failure in education
and the mechanisms underlying such inequalities. It examines
whether such differences can be attributed to immigration policies
of the receiving countries, the structure of the education system,
the poverty of the sending countries, their cultural differences
from the destination country, the degree of 'positive selection' of
the migrants, or to more specific characteristics of particular
ethnic minorities. It provides a rigorous description and
quantification of ethnic inequalities in education and makes
important progress in explaining existing inequalities.
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