Why Do the Results of Immigrant Students Depend So Much on Their Country of Origin and so Little on Their Country of Destination?

Carabaña, Julio

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“…If stereotypes about origin country groups reflect underlying reality, they should be similar across countries because groups that have favorable outcomes in one European country tend to have favorable outcomes in other European countries as well [16,[35][36][37][38]. Table 4 shows the correlation matrix between the primary variables across datasets.…”

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Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes?

Kirkegaard¹,

Carl

Bjerrekær

2020

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Stereotypes about 32 country-of-origin groups were measured using an online survey of the adult, non-elderly Danish population (n = 476 after quality control). Participants were asked to estimate each group’s net fiscal contribution in Denmark. These estimates were then compared to the actual net fiscal contributions for the 32 groups, taken from a report by the Danish Ministry of Finance. Stereotypes were found to be highly accurate, both at the aggregate level (r = 0.81) and at the individual level (median r = 0.62). Interestingly, participants over- rather than underestimated the net fiscal contributions of groups from countries with a higher percentage of Muslims. Indeed, this was true at both the aggregate and individual levels (r = −0.25 and median r = −0.49, respectively). Participants were also asked to say how many immigrants from each group should be admitted to Denmark. There was a very strong correlation between participants’ aggregate immigration policy preferences and their estimates of the 32 groups’ fiscal contributions (r = 0.98), suggesting that their preferences partly reflect accurate stereotypes. Most of the analyses were pre-registered.

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Section: Comparison With Results From the Study Of The United Kingdommentioning

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Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes?

Kirkegaard¹,

Carl

Bjerrekær

2020

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“…En España, PISA cuenta con la importantísima limitación de no distinguir el origen nacional del alumno; solo permite conocer si este es de origen nativo o no. La limitación es de suma importancia porque está ampliamente demostrado que el rendimiento varía fuertemente según el origen nacional, que se muestra, de hecho, más determinante que los factores vinculados al destino (Carabaña 2011).…”

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Inmigración, lengua y rendimiento académico en España. Una revisión sistemática de la literatura

Álvarez-Sotomayor¹,

Martínez-Cousinou

2020

Rev. int. sociol.

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Desde los años noventa, han proliferado en España los trabajos que abordan las relaciones entre inmigración, dominio de la lengua escolar y rendimiento académico del alumnado con padres inmigrantes. En su mayoría defienden la hipótesis de la desventaja lingüística como clave para explicar su inferior rendimiento académico. Este artículo revisa esta literatura en el marco español, valorando sus contribuciones, limitaciones y lagunas. Pese a los avances, se concluye que la práctica ausencia de estudios que midan simultáneamente el dominio de la lengua escolar y el rendimiento académico imposibilita un conocimiento empírico riguroso de tal relación y, con ello, el contraste de dicha hipótesis. El tamaño de las muestras y de las submuestras de los grupos de origen y el adecuado control de determinadas variables relevantes son señalados como otros obstáculos a salvar en futuras investigaciones.

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“…Lynn (2012) Skin colorTempler and Arikawa 2006Skin reflectance Templer (2008) GDP 1500s 19th century age heaping (measure of numeracy) Baten and Juif (2013) Temperature: annual mean Vanhanen (2009) Average winter temperature Meisenberg and Woodley (2013) Latitude Dama (2011) The fourth reason is that the cognitive ability scores of international migrants tend to correlate with the cognitive ability scores of those from the regions of origin. That is, to some extent, contemporaneous migrants carry their region of origin abilities with them and the differences brought persist at least until the second or third generation (Carabaña, 2011;De Philippis, 2013;Fuerst, 2014;Kirkegaard, 2015). For an explicit discussion of contemporaneous differences between races in twenty-three multiracial societies, readers are cautiously referred to Lynn (2008) (cautiously because the work is badly in need of updating 98 ).…”

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The Nature of Race: the Genealogy of the Concept and the Biological Construct’s Contemporaneous Utility

Fuerst¹

2015

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Racial constructionists, anti-naturalists, and anti-realists have challenged users of the biological race concept to provide and defend, from the perspective of biology, biological philosophy, and ethics, a biologically informed concept of race. In this paper, an ontoepistemology of biology is developed. What it is, by this, to be "biological real" and "biologically meaningful" and to represent a "biological natural division" is explained. Early 18th century race concepts are discussed in detail and are shown to be both sensible and not greatly dissimilar to modern concepts. A general biological race concept (GBRC) is developed. It is explained what the GBRC does and does not entail and how this concept unifies the plethora of specific ones, past and present. Other race concepts as developed in the philosophical literature are discussed in relation to the GBRC. The sense in which races are both real and natural is explained. Racial essentialism of the relational sort is shown to be coherent. Next, the GBRC is discussed in relation to anthropological discourse. Traditional human racial classifications are defended from common criticisms: historical incoherence, arbitrariness, cluster discordance, etc. Whether or not these traditional human races could qualify as taxa subspeciesor even speciesis considered. It is argued that they could qualify as taxa subspecies by liberal readings of conventional standards. Further, it is pointed out that some species concepts potentially allow certain human populations to be designated as species. It is explained why, by conventional population genetic and statistical standards, genetic differences between major human racial groups are at least moderate. Behavioral genetic differences associated with human races are discussed in general and in specific. The matter of race differences in cognitive ability is briefly considered. Finally, the race concept is defended from various criticisms. First, logical and empirical critiques are dissected. These include: biological scientific, sociological, ontological, onto-epistemological, semantic, and teleological arguments. None are found to have any merit. Second, moral-based arguments are investigated in context to a general ethical frame and are counter-critiqued. Racial inequality, racial nepotism, and the "Racial Worldview" are discussed. What is dubbed the Anti-Racial Worldview is rejected on both empirical and moral grounds. Finally, an area of future investigationthe politics of the destruction of the race conceptis pointed to.

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Why Do the Results of Immigrant Students Depend So Much on Their Country of Origin and so Little on Their Country of Destination?

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes?

Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes?

Inmigración, lengua y rendimiento académico en España. Una revisión sistemática de la literatura

The Nature of Race: the Genealogy of the Concept and the Biological Construct’s Contemporaneous Utility

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