<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></abstract>

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.

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

IREDU / Céreq, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, FR-21000 Dijon

SFIVET / Department of Sociology of Education, University of Bern, CH-3052 Zollikofen / CH-3012 Bern

Institute of Sociology / TREE, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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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...

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

Published Online: Jul 06, 2016

Page range: 245 - 265

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2016-0011

Keywords
Second-generation, access, higher education, pathways, international comparison

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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

Published Online: Jul 06, 2016

Page range: 245 - 265

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2016-0011

KeywordsSecond-generation, access, higher education, pathways, international comparison

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Second-generation, access, higher education, pathways, international comparison