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JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2199136
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Immigrant proportion; ethno-linguistic diversity; children's outcomes; classroom competencies; social integration
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This study examines the impact of immigrant children on various student outcomes, including academic performance, well-being, and social integration. Using Italy as a case study, the joint effects of immigrant proportion and ethnolinguistic diversity in the classroom were analyzed. The study found that the presence of immigrant children had limited negative effects, which were primarily concentrated on first-generation students.
The educational system is a crucial arena for the integration of the children of immigrants. We study the consequences of the presence of students with a migration background on various student outcomes, overall and distinguishing among natives, second- and first-generation children. We focus on Italy, a country that experienced a rapid increase in the presence of children of immigrants in school. First, we analyze not only students' competencies but also their well-being and social integration. Second, we investigate the joint effects of two dimensions of migrants' presence in the classroom: immigrant proportion and ethnolinguistic diversity. Third, we develop a design to make exposure to a level of immigrant proportion and ethnolinguistic diversity conditionally random. We use data collected by the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Italian School System on the entire population of students enrolled in the fifth grade in 2014-15. Our findings suggest that the immigrant proportion and ethno-linguistic diversity in the classroom have limited detrimental effects; their minor effects are widely independent of each other and approximately linear. The impact is tiny and appears to be concentrated exclusively on first-generation students. Implications for theoretical debate and educational policies are discussed in relation to the findings.
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