TEFI TCA – id. code 3919 Final report INDEX INTRODUCTION I ...

TEFI TCA – id. code 3919also highlighted, notwithstanding the continual emphasis on thenecessity for long life learning.The modalities of matching job demands and offers are oftenconnected to the use of informal channels, that do not favour auniversal type of selection of job offers. Unfortunately, not even theinstitutional agencies set up for matching job demands and offers,that should be inspired by principles of a universal character, are ableto fully exercise this role, instead, more often than not, they tend tofavour discrimination of the immigrants. Some analysis have shownhow the intermediary employment agencies, including the publicones, tend to direct the immigrant workers towards those jobsconsidered more adapt for their characteristics or presumedcharacteristics. The action of institutional reproduction of ethnicspecialization does not only comply with the spontaneous mechanismof the employment market, giving out a negative message regardingthe possibility to carry out a universal criteria of selection, butimpedes the emergence of the problem of discrimination.The structural mechanism that hides behind this type of tendency isthe maintaining of a relationship between immigrant job offers andautochthonous ones; the first get the jobs that the second refuse.Participation of the children of immigrants in the educational systemis often a source of problems. In the first place, children ofimmigrants run more risk of failure at school than native children.The school, in many cases, reflects social stratification and may initself reproduce social inequality. Very often, in fact, expectations ofschool results are influenced by stereotypes surrounding thecommunity from which the immigrant child comes from. In secondplace, it must not be forgotten that even so called “normal”Final report 174