Part A looks at a number of countries' experience in the field of immigrants1 children's education. An attempt is made to gain an understanding of these countries' experiences and to present the phenomenon in a world-wide perspective. Sane factors which are considered by researchers, in these countries, as contributory factors to the school failure of imnmigrants' children are isolated, discussed and analysed. This forms a platform of work for our own research. This part also examines sane aspects of the life of Algerian children in France and provides the reader with a clear picture of these pupils' lives, indispensable for the understanding of their socio-educational experience in France as well as in Algeria. Part B deals with the research design and the methodology used in our work. Part C is an analysis of the socio-educational experience of Algerian immigrants' children in France and an attempt to isolate and analyse the factors that make these children fail in the French educational system. Part D investigates the same factors as in Part B. However, it deals with Algerian pupils who have "returned" to Algeria and who are being schooled in the Algerian educational system. Part E draws sane recommendations for the improvement of these children's education and social life. These recommendations are evaluated and re-appraised in the light of experts' and officials' opinions in both Algeria and France.