How Do Second-Generation Immigrant Students Access Higher Education? The Importance of Vocational Routes to Higher Education in Switzerland, France, and Germany

Murdoch, Jake; Guégnard, Christine; Griga, Dorit; Koomen, Maarten; Imdorf, Christian (2016). How Do Second-Generation Immigrant Students Access Higher Education? The Importance of Vocational Routes to Higher Education in Switzerland, France, and Germany. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 42(2), pp. 245-263. De Gruyter 10.1515/sjs-2016-0011

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We analyse the access to different institutional pathways to higher education for second-generation students, focusing on youths that hold a higher-education entrance certificate. The alternative vocational pathway appears to compensate to some degree, compared to the traditional academic one, for North-African and Southern-European youths in France, those from Turkey in Germany, and to a lesser degree those from Portugal, Turkey, Ex-Yugoslavia, Albania/Kosovo in Switzerland. This is not the case in Switzerland for Western-European, Italian, and Spanish youths who indeed access higher education via the academic pathway more often than Swiss youths. Using youth panel and survey data, multinomial models are applied to analyse these pathway choices.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Education > Sociology of Education

UniBE Contributor:

Murdoch, Jake, Guégnard, Christine, Griga, Dorit, Koomen, Maarten (A), Imdorf, Christian (A)

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education

ISSN:

2297-8348

Publisher:

De Gruyter

Projects:

[1036] Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE) Official URL

Language:

English

Submitter:

Thomas Meyer

Date Deposited:

27 Jul 2016 15:21

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:35

Publisher DOI:

10.1515/sjs-2016-0011

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.84452

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/84452

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