TY - JOUR AU - Fouquet-Chauprade, Barbara AU - Napoli, Julia PY - 2021/05/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Implementation of educational policies for migrants: A case study in the Swiss canton of Geneva JF - Education Policy Analysis Archives JA - EPAA VL - 29 IS - January - July SE - International Migration and the Right to Education DO - 10.14507/epaa.29.5726 UR - https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/5726 SP - 69 AB - <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’ education and its interpretation in the canton of Geneva. In particular, we examined the ”decoupling”<em> </em>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’école des mamans</em> (mothers’ school) dedicated to prepare migrants’ families for their children enrolment in primary school. Our main results show that there is a distortion between policy objectives and the implementation phase.  We also observe a model of resistance to change with no modification of actors’ practices towards migrants’ parents despite the new integration policy guidance.</p> ER -