Resilience Against Discrimination: Explore the Protective Effect on Immigrant Students' Academic Achievement Across 57 Economies

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Abstract

Aims: This study aims to examine the protective effect of resilience that helps immigrant students against discrimination and the differences among immigrant and non-immigrant students across 57 economics.
Methods: A two-level multilevel model was utilized using the PISA 2018 database, we selected 344,043 students from 13,768 schools in 57 economies.
Results: Non-immigrants scored higher than immigrant students. Students performed worse in academic achievement in discriminatory schools but scored higher if they were resilient. Besides, we found that resilience can be a protective factor for immigrant students facing discrimination in schools, specifically, in more severely discriminatory schools, the achievement gap between immigrant and non-immigrant students were narrowed among students with higher level of resilience, but larger among students with lower resilience.

Authors

• Qinhui Huang, Beijing Normal University

• Leifeng Xiao, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Alan C. K. Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Lijun Fan, University of Hong Kong