Luca Queirolo Palmas

The present contribution analyses in a comparative way the relation between schools and migration in Europe, taking in account different experiences and societal models: the educational system of free choice in Netherlands, the recent arrival and the overlapping between language of the hosting society and the language of the main migrants groups in the case of Spain, the accumulated tradition and the permanent tensions in the management of migration in schools in the case of UK, France and Germany. The contribution focuses on two main aspect: the educational achievement of migrants and the process of educational segregation.