Segregación escolar y estrategias familiares de elección de centroLa población inmigrada en el contexto escolar de Granada

Résumé

The research approaches the factors and agents that explain school segregation by national origin from the perspective of the population that suffer it to a greater extent, migrant families who have to educate their children in a foreign educational system. Using a mixed methodology, which combines statistical, geographical and qualitative approaches, we firstly calculate the magnitude of the phenomenon in the city of Granada as a case study, secondly, we represent it in the territory through geo-referenced data, and thirdly, we analyse the discourse of headmasters of “high immigrant concentration schools” and migrant families, through their practices of school choice. The results describe a complex social fact, which is influenced by processes of residential, institutional and school choice segregation. Finally, we elaborate ideal-types of families and concentration processes that offer guidelines for understanding a phenomenon that reflects the inequalities that occur in our societies.