Education policies for migrant schoolchildren in Moscow Region (2010-2015): Lessons from the Californian experience on migrant schoolchildren integration

Present paper is devoted to the analysis of current issues related to the migrant schoolchildren in Moscow. Master thesis consists of two parts. The first part is quantitative one. The main goal of the part is to evaluate how migrant background influence educational achievements of migrant schoolchildren in Moscow. Using Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey over the years 2010 – 2013, it became possible to measure what affects children in their daily life. Based on the binary logistic regression and using control variables devoted to migrant status, educational achievements of children, socio-economic status, age, health issues and gender, the findings suggest that migrant background does not influence educational achievements of schoolchildren in Moscow. Thus, migrant and their local peers have the same educational results on average. The second part of the paper is devoted to the comparison of California and Moscow in terms of immigrant regulation in the sphere of education. I used MIPEX framework to organize the following work. California succeded in two dimensions. First one is an access to education. The dimension is dedicated to the analysis of how educational system is fovorable and accessible for immigrants. California is also better in targeting needs dimension. This dimension explains how parents, children, and tutors have their needs addressed in school. California inferiors Moscow in intercultural education and new opportunities dimension. Hovewer, it is not possible to state that the situation in the states differs a lot. It is the general weaknesses of Moscow and California. The paper represents in depth analysis over the current situation with migrant schoolchildren in Moscow.