The geography of education literature has demonstrated remarkable similarities in school choice strategies across different educational and spatial contexts. The literature finds that school choice strategies of the middle classes rely on deploying different forms of capital (economic, social, and cultural). At the same time, it is evident that the specific geography and institutional idiosyncrasies of the educational landscape are navigated in locally specific ways that are not just classed but also strongly intersect with ethnicity/race. In most contexts moving house plays a central role in school choice. However, residential relocation as part of school choice strategies is highly contingent on national and local regulations of school allocation and enrolment. Investigating the case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam, this paper uses longitudinal individual, geo-coded register data to study the socio-spatial school choice strategies of an entire cohort of first-born children (2012) in a free-school choice landscape. Employing an analysis of the interconnections of residential relocation and school choice, this paper uses multinomial logit models to assess how school is differentiated by social class and migration background and how it is related to residential (re)location. It finds that school choice strategies are differentiated by both class and ethnicity, but also very strongly depend on residential context. Remarkably, the paper finds that while a substantial number of highly educated, high-income parents move and enrol their children in homogeneous middle-class schools, a majority of households do not move and hence navigate the school landscape in which they find themselves. It suggests that school choice policies indeed reduce the need for residential relocation, but at the same time are conducive to school segregation.

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父母自由选择背景下学校选择的社会空间策略

教育文学地理学在不同教育和空间背景下的择校策略上表现出显着的相似性。文献发现，中产阶级的择校策略依赖于部署不同形式的资本（经济、社会和文化）。同时，很明显，教育景观的特定地理和制度特质以当地特定的方式进行导航，这些方式不仅被分类，而且与种族/种族密切相关。在大多数情况下，搬家在学校选择中起着核心作用。然而，作为学校选择策略的一部分，住宅搬迁在很大程度上取决于国家和地方的学校分配和入学规定。调查阿姆斯特丹都会区的案例，本文使用纵向的个人地理编码登记数据来研究免费学校选择环境中整个首生儿童队列（2012 年）的社会空间学校选择策略。通过对住宅搬迁和学校选择的相互联系进行分析，本文使用多项 logit 模型来评估学校如何根据社会阶层和迁移背景进行区分，以及它与住宅（搬迁）选址的关系。它发现学校选择策略因阶级和种族而异，但也非常依赖于居住环境。值得注意的是，该论文发现，虽然大量受过高等教育、高收入的父母将他们的孩子转移到同质的中产阶级学校，大多数家庭不搬家，因此在他们发现自己的学校环境中导航。这表明择校政策确实减少了搬迁的需要，但同时也有利于学校隔离。