Exploring Information Gathering Work Undertaken by Immigrant Parents to Choose a High School in Montreal.

This article explores information gathering work undertaken by immigrant parents before choosing their children’s high school in Montreal. Rooted in an interpretive sociology, it explores the experiences, challenges, and specific needs as they gather information and their agency and proactiveness to mitigate feelings of ignorance and lack of referents by leveraging their skills, advantages, or privileges. It also examines similarities in participants’ experience and variations explained by reconfigured academic capital and/or acquired local social capital and pathways in the host society. By focusing on a seldom-studied category in information gathering work, this article sheds light on experiences as yet rarely explored.