{"id":38450,"date":"2026-01-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38450"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:51:50","slug":"implementation-of-educational-policies-for-migrants-a-case-study-in-the-swiss-canton-of-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38450","title":{"rendered":"Implementation of educational policies for migrants: A case study in the Swiss canton of Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s): Barbara Fouquet-Chauprade, Julia Napoli<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14507\/epaa.29.5726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14507\/epaa.29.5726<\/a> <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Swiss context presents a specific pattern being a confederal country relying on a subsidiarity principle. Thus, the cantons operate in a framework of a reduced power of central authority (Boulenger et al., 2012; Revaz, 2020) and are autonomous regarding education policies at local level (Akkari, 2019). However, since the adoption of a new law in 2005, the Federal Council, cantons, municipalities and cities officially collaborate on migration policy (Chifelle, 2018; Facchinetti, 2012). In this particular context, the confederation developed migration policies giving guidance to cantonal governments. Our research aimed at analyzing a confederal policy guidance on migrants\u2019 education and its interpretation in the canton of Geneva. In particular, we examined the \u201ddecoupling\u201d between general guidance from the Confederation and the implementation at local level. For this purpose, we studied the implementation of a cantonal program named <em>L\u2019\u00e9cole des mamans<\/em> (mothers\u2019 school) dedicated to prepare migrants\u2019 families for their children enrolment in primary school. Our main results show that there is a distortion between policy objectives and the implementation phase. \u00a0We also observe a model of resistance to change with no modification of actors\u2019 practices towards migrants\u2019 parents despite the new integration policy guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keywords:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Educational policies, migrants\u2019 integration, policy design, policy implementation<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s): Barbara Fouquet-Chauprade, Julia Napoli Source: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14507\/epaa.29.5726<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[306,7,318,232,77,9,341,387,776,117,91],"class_list":["post-38450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-306","tag-article","tag-children","tag-education","tag-education-policy","tag-english-language","tag-geneva","tag-integration-policy","tag-parents","tag-school-integration","tag-social-integration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38451,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38450\/revisions\/38451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}