Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/rfp.4738>
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DOI: <
10.4000/rfp.4738>
Abstract
How to account for educational inequality related to a student’s immigrant status? The explanation that has long been hegemonic in France is that this inequality is the result of “cultural discontinuities” between students of working class backgrounds and/or migrants and the school itself. However, educational inequality can also be explained by systemic discrimination. This article shall use the PISA 2003 and 2012 database for France to test these two explanations to account for educational inequality related to a student’s immigrant status. The main hypothesis is that there is a link between increased school segregation of migrants and the development of educational inequality.