Infancia de la inmigración y educación: la visión de las familias

This paper is aimed at studying the importance that immigrant families place on the education of their children. After analysing the main problems that affect the education of immigrant children, we present the results of a research carried out on a sample of 111 immigrant families whose children ar...

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Autores: Santos Rego, Miguel A., Lorenzo Moledo, Mar, Priegue Caamaño, Diana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/45272
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10201/45272
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Immigrant children
Family
Education
Integration
Infancia de la inmigración
Familia
Educación
Integración
Descripción
Sumario:This paper is aimed at studying the importance that immigrant families place on the education of their children. After analysing the main problems that affect the education of immigrant children, we present the results of a research carried out on a sample of 111 immigrant families whose children are enrolled in compulsory education schools. Our purpose was to determine whether the family's ethnic and cultural background have an influence on the importance given to certain aspects of education. To this end, we conducted a comparative study on families from Morocco (n = 22) and Latin America (n = 73). The results confirm that the ethnic and cultural background do not play a very important role in the importance that parents place on education. It is stressed that there is a need to look for other factors which may have an influence on the importance that immigrant parents place on their children's education.