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Since the 2005 law, the Federal Council, cantons, municipalities, and cities collaborate officially on migration policy, with confederation guidance for cantonal governments. The study analyzes confederal policy guidance on migrants’ education in Geneva, focusing on “decoupling” between guidance and local implementation via the cantonal program L’école des mamans.","SPECIAL ISSUE  \nInternational Migration and the Right to Education: Challenges for Facing Inequalities in Education Systems Policies  \neducation policy analysis archives  \nA peer-reviewed, independent, open access, multilingual journal  \nArizona State University  \n\n| Volume 29 Number 69 | May 24, 2021 | ISSN 1068-2341 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\nImplementation of Educational Policies for Migrants: A Case Study in the Swiss Canton of Geneva1  \nBarbara Fouquet-Chauprade  \n&  \nJulia Napoli  \nUniveristy of Geneva  \nSwitzerland  \nCitation: Fouquet-Chauprade, B., & Napoli, J. (2021). Implementation of educational policies for migrants: A case study in the Swiss canton of Geneva. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(69) . [https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5726](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5726 This)[ This](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5726 This) article is a part of the special issue, International Migration and the Right to Education: Challenges for Facing Inequalities in Education Systems Policies, guest edited by Ana Lorena de Oliveira Bruel, Isabelle Rigoni, Maïtena Armagnague-Roucher.  \nAbstract: 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  \n1 We would like to extend our warmest thanks to Karelle Stiassny (HEP Vaud-Switzerland), who has contributed greatly to our thinking.  \nmigrants’ education and its interpretation in the canton of Geneva. In particular, we examined the”decoupling” between general guidance from the Confederation and the implementation at local level. For this purpose, we studied the implementation of a cantonal program named L’école des mamans (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. Keywords: Educational policies; migrants’ integration; policy design; policy implementation  \nLa aplicación de políticas educativas para los inmigrantes: Un estudio de caso en el cantónsuizo de Ginebra  \nResumen: El contexto suizo se caracteriza por ser un país confederal que se basa en el principio de subsidiariedad. Así, los cantones operan con independencia de la autoridad central (Boulenger et al., 2012; Revaz, 2020) y son autónomos en lo que trata de las políticas educativas a nivel local (Akkari, 2019) . Sin embargo, desde la adopción de una nueva ley en 2005, el Consejo Federal, los cantones, los municipios y las ciudades colaboran oficialmente en la política migratoria (Chifelle, 2018; Facchinetti, 2012) . En este contexto concreto, la confederación elaboró políticas migratorias que orientan a los gobiernos cantonales. Nuestra investigación tiene como objetivo analizar una orientación política confederal sobre la educación de los migrantes y su interpretación en el cantónde Ginebra. Mas concretamente, examinamos la “disociación” entre las orientaciones generales de la Confederación y la aplicación a nivel local. Para ello, estudiamos la aplicación de un programa cantonal denominado L'école des mamans (la escuela de las madres) dedicado a preparar a las familias de los inmigrantes para que sus hijos se matriculen en la escuela primaria. 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