child of migrant [ second generation migrant | third generation migrant ]

environmental migrant | environmental refugee | eco-refugee

education of the children of migrant workers

European Federation for the Education of the Children of Occupational Travellers | Efecot [Abbr.]

migrant worker | migratory worker

climate change migrant | climate change refugee | climate migrant | climate refugee

Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe [ CCME | Churches' Committee for Migrants in Europe | Churches' Committee on Migrant Workers in Europe | Churches' Committee on Migrant Workers in Western Europe ]

child protection [ child abuse | child soldier | ill-treated child | moral protection of children ]

child care [ baby-sitting | child minding | children's home | crèche | day nursery | kindergarten | nursery ]

PISA shows lower performance of pupils in schools with high concentrations of migrant pupils.[19] Segregation also happens within schools: there is evidence that ability grouping/tracking places a disproportionately high share of migrant pupils into lower-ability streams – reflecting, possibly, lower initial levels of educational attainment and/or linguistic capacity.[20] Finally, the high concentration of children of migrants in special schools for disabled pupils evident in some countries is an extreme case of segregation.[21] It is a priori unlikely that migrant pupils suffer from very different levels of disability across countries.

2. The terms "children from a migrant background", "children of migrants" and "migrant pupils" will be used for the specific purpose of this Paper to refer to the children of all persons living in an EU country where they were not born, irrespective of whether they are third-country nationals, citizens of another EU Member State or subsequently became nationals of the host Member State.

EUROVOC descriptor: vocational training Council of the European Union integration of migrants anti-discriminatory measure schooling cultural pluralism migrant worker child of migrant teaching

Ensure a focus on children who face an increased risk due to multiple disadvantage such as Roma children, some migrant or ethnic minority children, children with special needs or disabilities, children in alternative care and street children, children of imprisoned parents, as well as children within households at particular risk of poverty, such as single parent or large families;