Ricerc@Sapienza

Education policies can work as integration policies for children with immigrant origins.
The literature on that matter is rich for settlement countries and for the European
countries that have a long tradition of immigration. The lack in the availability of data
in many EU has made dicult to carry out comparative analysis of the integration
process in those countries, particularly for the second-generation. This work lls this
gap, analysing the role of the socio-economic background in the educational outcome of

Immigration into the OECD countries has seen a sharp increase since the middle of the 1980s, even if not at a constant rate. Integration policies are a fundamental tool to help the newly arrived to integrate and assimilate with the native population.