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Success paths of young immigrants in higher
education and the professional world.

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Hello, my name is Imane. I
am a kindergarten teacher.

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I've been here in Catalonia 22 years.

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My parents came the year 76.

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Returned to Morocco, they
stayed there again and then

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came here again.
I was 4 years old then.

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And I started schooling here at
P4 [4 year olds kindergarten].

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Born in Morocco.
Kindergarten teacher in Granollers.

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At first, I remember
not understanding the language

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but I quickly got up to speed with it

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and I did more or less fine.

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In primary education I highlight
as a positive aspect

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that I really ended up fitting
in, even though I felt some

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small differences that my peers
or a teacher made me feel.

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Then, at the ESO stage
[high school equivalent]

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maybe it's my least favorite stage and
the one I would erase from my life.

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Basically because... there are positive
aspects and teachers who support you,

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telling you that you
can, who believe in you.

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But there were also
schoolmates that bullied you,

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that told you that you were different,
to go back to your country

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and this kind of comments, which
have always been present.

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What I would do is go there,
believe more in myself.

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Help my schoolmates.
To the bullies say "hey,

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I'm sorry but I am like you, I am a person
and I have the same rights as you."

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And though we are different, understand
this diversity as a positive aspect

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and not negative, as
I had internalized.

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When I was 16 I started
to get odd jobs.

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As a clerk, as a nanny... I was
a secretary in a gym...

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And basically it was because... You say,
I want a bit of autonomy.

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Not relying on others. So your parents
don't always have to pay for everything.

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And that made me grow up and
trust myself a bit more.

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All this capacity
of effort, this desire

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I have always been grateful to
my family, especially my mother.

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My mother is a mediator. She works for the
town halls around Osona.

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And the truth is that she has always been on the side.
She has been like a role model.

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Always learning,
taking courses.

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Catalan for her is one more language
we use also at home.

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And she is like a role
model or a guiding light.

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Then, in the high school stage was
when I started to really enjoy it.

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I chose the Humanistic path

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and there I did have schoolmates
who wanted to study.

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I really wanted to study.
Also I didn't take mathematics,

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that were something that scared me.

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And my schoolmates just wanted
to keep studying as much as me.

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I enjoyed it a lot. I got better marks

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and then I decided "well yes, why not"

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pursue a career, something that I liked.
So early childhood education.

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And so that's how I started
my childhood education career.

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That, however, once
finished, I always do workshops,

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because as teachers we
have to keep always learning.

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And this restlessness of "I want to learn."

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Really, you just get the degree
and you say "I know nothing".

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So then, do an MA, I've done
an inclusive education master

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Well, today an English course... And keep

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growing as a person, both at
work and and at your daily life too.

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I've always seen that everything
I've been doing... a clerk,

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secretary, whatever, you end up learning,
meeting people, ways of life...

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And so I think I've learned to adapt
to any of the jobs I've been doing.

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That's until I started my job as a teacher.

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Then I said "this
is really my job".

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When I finished the University
I didn't have a clear idea.

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Yes, I like children,
I like, I like this

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but until you don't experience
the everyday, the practice.

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Until you see, until you take
your place, you do not see it.

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And that's when I said "geese! I am

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doing a job I like
and I'm also getting paid."

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This is great!

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I started when I was about 16

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thanks to my brother who
competed professionally.

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Because of this I always...
When I started it was like

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Trying to practice a sport,
because it was good for the body.

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But after a while I saw it was a little
time for me, to evade from my problems,

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to focus on myself, to disconnect.

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And then I started to enjoy it.

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When you saw that there was a lot of work,

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the discipline behind the sport,

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the respect for opponents,
the respect for you mates.

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This made me feel I was
doing the right thing.

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And to this day I still
practice this sport.

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Have you gone back to Morocco?

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The third year of college I
did my field work in Morocco.

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I decided to make it in Morocco.

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Because I never studied there.

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Everyone asks you how
Morocco is and I only had an idea

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thanks to the summers.
Every summer you go there

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you meet and see the family,
always the same people.

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But you are really on vacation.

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And living there is something else.

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We were there two months

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and I really could see the
proximity, that I could see already

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I could see it even more present.

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The hospitality of the people

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learning about different ways of working.

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How do they work in a school,
which is totally different from here.

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The school discipline.

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Different NGOs that
wanted to empower women.

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I think this all enriched me greatly

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and it ended up giving me a little support
that I was lacking.

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Or the information I was lacking because
I really came here when I was 4.

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And about Morocco, I could tell things...

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Well, I've been here on vacation.
I've been visiting this...

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But I was missing how they lived.

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What they did, where were
they headed on the afternoon,

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well, to the youth center. What were
they doing at the youth center?

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And more this everyday life aspect.

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I've always wanted... or
I have been doing things.

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Working, studying...

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Because I think that
nobody gives you anything.

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You have to fend for yourself,
you have to assert yourself.

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And you have to move.

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My recommendation for
all these young people

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who at some point have felt bad,

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or just do not know where to turn to,

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Just say that everyone has
skills and abilities to develop.

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We all have some skills. We are better
at some things and worse at others.

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We just have to look for our way.

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And from the premise that we are unique.

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That does not mean we
have to be all the same.

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Understand diversity as a positive aspect.

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Everybody can do something
that maybe you can't

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but I'm sure you'll find
something that is part of you.

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Not a full stop.