Families and the academic success of immigrant high school students
The article presents the results of a research on the trajectories of immigrant students’ academic success in Montreal and Sherbrooke. The majority of these students attended a welcoming class. Using interviews as the chosen research method, case studies were conducted to analyze the point of view of the student, parent, and teacher on a student’s school experiences. Thus, twenty-four cases emphasized various levels of mobilization contributing to each trajectory of academic success. Furthermore, a typology of success situations according to family profiles was modeled in three categories : success-continuity, success-promotion, family success. Transversal aspects of the typology are presented.