An ethnography of a homework club started by a group of immigrants parents. A space of social mobility

// ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: The involvement of parents in the education of their children has become a research topic since 1970s, after the Coleman report. Pupil achievement would depend on it and in Canada, a multiculturalist country, it has also to do with parents who have passed through the experience of migration. In this rapprochement of school-families, this paper examines the role of a homework club in French, created at the initiative of parents who have lived the migration. The ethnographical study of this club (boundaries of club, space-time, parents' role, relations with knowledge and homework, relations with language, space of social mobility) shows its aims on display and a particular one, implicit, about making a walkway that allows families to live a social rise through their children. Club works under specific rules copied on Canadian school or inherited from original country. Commending a hierarchical and knowledge-ordered approach, it differentiates from other clubs, more oriented towards ludic activities. The study contradicts in deficit or outgoing discourses, very common at public sphere, on parents, it encourages interest on research about intermediate spaces created on the margins of school and institutions and leads to question the role of state and public politics about the integration of new arrivals. Reproduced by permission of Bibliothèque de Sciences Po