Many Chinese friends choose to immigrate to Australia for the purpose of educating their children. So, how do the children of these Chinese immigrant friends fare in Australia? A disclosed internal Australian government document can give Chinese immigrant parents some relief!
document shows: When it comes to education, descendants of immigrants from Asia do best! Economically, the children of Chinese immigrants do best! At the same time, Australia is one of the best performing countries in the West for immigration!
This government document disclosed by Australia's "Immigration Report" was written for the Australian Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship by Garnett Picot, an expert on immigrant economic integration at the University of Queensland . The study evaluated the educational and economic aspects Performance of descendants of immigrants in Australia.
The results found that in terms of education, the descendants of Asian immigrants performed outstandingly; in terms of labor market performance, the descendants of Chinese immigrants were the best, and the children of immigrants from the Middle East were the weakest. Fortunately, Australia has one of the best educational and economic outcomes for immigrant children in the Western world. This success puts Australia behind most European countries and somewhat ahead of the United States and Canada.
reports that immigrants perform very differently depending on their country of origin. "Children of immigrants from many Asian countries, such as China and India, have particularly high educational performance." Overall, children from Asian immigrant families tend to have the best educational performance.
Children from British and European immigrant families tend to look more Australian, but their average grades are still higher than the average for children from Australian families.
Children of immigrants from Latin America and the Middle East tend to perform worse in education, but are still on par with Australian children (23 to 28 per cent complete university). The
report believes that educational outcomes may be affected by multiple factors, such as parents and expectations for education. Immigrant parents (especially immigrants from Asia) often have higher educational expectations for their children than Australian parents.
Where immigrants live is also important. Migrant families are more likely to live in big cities than native Australian families, where education levels are higher.
At the same time, the group the child belongs to also plays a role. Young people from minority groups have a greater chance of finding role models with higher education in their own group and working with them. Strong interpersonal networks play a certain role.
Also, the school system comes into play. Compared with other countries such as the United States, the quality of education in Australia is less affected by socioeconomic background or location.
The study's analysis of the labor market concluded: "Among second-generation minority populations, immigrants from the Middle East fare worst in terms of economic outcomes, with Chinese best performing."
The report says second-generation immigrants fare the worst in terms of economic outcomes due to average education levels. higher, it is a conceivable consequence that they perform better in terms of economic outcomes.
The income of Australia's first-generation immigrants is very different from that of people born in Australia. The income difference between their second-generation immigrants is significantly smaller. The report said it is likely that the economic integration of immigrants is a multi-generational process, because their income differences are largest in the first generation and then shrink with each generation.
In Australia, the average economic performance of immigrant children is no worse than that of children born in Australia. However, in many Western countries, especially in Europe, the situation of immigrants is not so good.
The authors of the report believe that they have not been able to find many suitable comparisons as to why Australian immigrants perform better than those in Europe, but Switzerland is a comparable example.
The two countries have similar proportions of immigrants, but the difference is that Switzerland has historically accepted immigrants with lower skill levels and from poorer countries, as is the case in many European countries.
Overall, the educational performance (as well as the economic performance) of children of Swiss immigrants is much worse than that of children of native Swiss. The situation in Australia is just the opposite.
First of all, the academic performance of second-generation immigrants in Switzerland in high school is much worse than that of children of native Swiss parents.
This gap in middle school academic performance leads to a gap in their attendance at post-secondary institutions. Children of immigrants are less likely to receive higher education because their high school grades are not good. In Australia, there is no difference in high school grades between immigrant children and Australian native children, so there is no such disadvantage.
As for the reasons for this phenomenon, the report believes that socioeconomic background, including parents’ education level, country of origin and different ethnic groups, are all influencing factors.
In Switzerland, 50% to 75% of the reasons for poor high school performance among immigrant children are related to differences in socioeconomic background, and the reasons are largely caused by immigration policies.
Switzerland has recently changed its immigration policy to focus on higher-skilled immigrants, in part to combat this problem.
Another reason why the second-generation immigrants in Switzerland have poor high school performance is the "diversion" system in secondary schools. Students with immigrant backgrounds often go to categories that do not belong to academic subjects, and therefore have no chance to receive higher education.
Australia does not have such a streaming system. In fact, among students with poorer academic performance in Australian secondary schools, students with immigrant backgrounds are more likely to obtain higher education than students from local families.
The reason why children from immigrant families in Australia have a higher chance of receiving higher education is that, in addition to their better high school grades, it is also related to the higher expectations of parents in immigrant families.
The higher educational attainment of immigrant parents, as well as ethnic effects related to networks, role models, and expectations, all come into play.
Australia receives a large number of immigrants from countries such as China and India with relatively high educational expectations, which is unmatched by Switzerland or most European countries.
In fact, the choice of immigrants can affect many aspects such as the educational, economic, and social outcomes of immigrant children, and various facts have also proven that:
The Australian education and living environment provided by Chinese parents for their children also has a subtle impact on their children. Bring more advantages to your children and pave the way for a brighter and broader future!
