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Chapter 2 - Access to Higher Education and Retention of Students with a Migrant Background in the Netherlands

A Comparative Analysis

from Part I - Encountering Marginalisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2020

By
Maurice Crul  and
Frans Lelie
Edited by
Jacqueline Bhabha ,
Wenona Giles  and
Faraaz Mahomed
Jacqueline Bhabha
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Wenona Giles
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Faraaz Mahomed
Affiliation:
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
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Summary

This chapter looks at access to and retention in higher education of children of migrants with low levels of education across a number of Western European countries, using data of the Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES) survey. The comparative perspective shows the impact of national institutional arrangements on education. Access to and retention in higher education of children of migrants with low levels of education still show considerable gaps when compared to those of peers of native descent. Data analysis shows that socio-economic background characteristics or the migrant background is only partly responsible for the gaps between students with and without a migrant background. We zoom in on students of Turkish descent in the Dutch school system to analyse whether these gaps are the result of socio-cultural background characteristics related to their ethnic group or migration (their own or that of their parents) or whether the gap in educational outcomes can be explained by how educational institutions provide opportunities or, on the contrary, fail to cater for children of immigrants. Based on detailed information available in the Netherlands, we show how differences in the preparation for higher education that students get can lead to important differences in study success later on.

Keywords

Academic successretention in higher educationaccess to higher educationintegration context theoryschool systemeducationintergenerational mobilitystudent preparationstudents with a migrant background
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A Better Future
The Role of Higher Education for Displaced and Marginalised People
 , pp. 40 - 58
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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