KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Differences in educational goals between immigrants and the majority population have often been a... more Differences in educational goals between immigrants and the majority population have often been analysed at specific stages in their educational career. Little is known about longitudinal trajectories and the development of group differences over time. By applying common explanations (immigrant optimism, relative status maintenance, blocked opportunities, ethnic networks and information deficits), we derived specific hypotheses about the development of educational aspirations and expectations over time, focusing on families from Turkey. We drew upon data from the National Educational Panel Study to assess how aspirations and expectations for the highest school degree develop over the course of lower secondary education in Germany’s stratified school system. Applying a multi-actor perspective, we observed trajectories reported by students and their parents. First, we analysed the development of group differences. In line with prior research, we found higher aspirations and expectatio...
This article investigates the educational participation of refugee adolescents in Germany as a ma... more This article investigates the educational participation of refugee adolescents in Germany as a main European destination country of refugee migration. Opportunities and restrictions for school participation vary not only across countries–, but in the case of the Federal Republic of Germany, also within countries. The influence of different regional educational policies on refugees' educational participation and the extent to which they limit or enable individual agency, are however, widely understudied. We thus aim to analyze how different regional educational policies within Germany influence refugee students' educational participation regarding four central indicators: the duration until school enrollment, the type of class attended (newcomer vs. regular class), the type of school attended, and whether they are enrolled in settings appropriate for their age. We rely on a theoretical model which sees educational decisions as the result of rational cost-benefit calculations....
Mastering the language of the destination country is key to immigrant and refugee children's ... more Mastering the language of the destination country is key to immigrant and refugee children's educational success. Refugee children typically face the challenge of starting or continuing their educational carrier in a completely new context and in a completely new language. In this study, we examine the role of preschool attendance and formal language instruction in supporting young refugee children to acquire destination language competencies. We pursue three research objectives: First, we aim at identifying relevant conditions associated with German language acquisition in general. Second, we examine the (relative) importance of institutional learning support in preschool and language instruction. Third, we investigate whether the benefits of attending preschool are more pronounced for refugee children who have only limited exposure to the destination language outside of the institutional context, as compared to children who have more exposure to the language outside of prescho...
With the strong immigration of refugees at the end of the last decade, many minors came to German... more With the strong immigration of refugees at the end of the last decade, many minors came to Germany. Their integration into the German educational system will be one of the central tasks of German society and is important for the medium- and long-term integration of incoming young refugees in various areas of society. Data from the ReGES panel study enable analyses of the early integration process of refugees into the German educational system. The study focuses on two cohorts: 2,405 children of preschool age who are about to start school and 2,415 adolescents in lower secondary education who were followed during the transition into vocational training or upper secondary education. Each cohort was interviewed seven times over three school years from 2018 to 2020, with sampling procedures starting in 2017. This article provides an overview of the study design, contents, and research potential of ReGES. The large number of measures of individual characteristics, including objective com...
Pre-migration conditions can have important consequences for refugees' societal integration i... more Pre-migration conditions can have important consequences for refugees' societal integration in the arrival country. In the case of Syrians, information about the conditions under which they lived prior to migration is often scarce. This paper aims to give an overview over various educational aspects in pre-crisis Syria: The educational system, the educational participation of children and adolescents, and the educational attainment of the adult population. Our findings mainly rely on aggregate data from the Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics and univariate and bivariate analyses of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) carried out in Syria in 2006. We find that early childhood education (ECE) was much less common in Syria compared to Germany. In regards to school enrollment in Syria, most 7- and 8-year-olds attended primary school, whereas dropout rates among 14- to 16-year-olds were high. As common patterns in the educational participation of children and adolescents, w...
Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Will, G., & Rühl, S. (2004). Analytical report on legi... more Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Will, G., & Rühl, S. (2004). Analytical report on legislation: RAXEN national focal point Germany (RAXEN Report / European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, National Focal Point Germany). Wien: europäisches forum für migrationsstudien (efms) Institut an der Universität Bamberg; Europäische Stelle zur Beobachtung von Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-193036
This paper describes the consequences that the non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) in the con... more This paper describes the consequences that the non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic had on the data collection of the panel study ReGES and the solution adopted to continue the field work. The NPI were introduced during the 7th wave of the ReGES study and led to a disruption of the field work. In order to continue the field and to keep the data collected after the NPI comparable to the one collected before the NPI, we decided to switch the face-to-face mode to a telephone interview. The switch made content-related as well as technical and methodological adjustments to the instruments necessary. We also discuss methodological issues that must be taken into account when preparing and analysing the data.
Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Will, G., & Rühl, S. (2004). Analytical report on educ... more Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Will, G., & Rühl, S. (2004). Analytical report on education: national focal point for Germany (RAXEN Report / European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, National Focal Point Germany). Wien: europäisches forum für migrationsstudien (efms) Institut an der Universität Bamberg; Europäische Stelle zur Beobachtung von Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-193023
Terms of use Dieses Dokument steht unter folgender Creative Commons-Lizenz: -Sie dürfen das Werk ... more Terms of use Dieses Dokument steht unter folgender Creative Commons-Lizenz: -Sie dürfen das Werk bzw. den Inhalt unter folgenden Bedingungen vervielfältigen, verbreiten und öffentlich zugänglich machen sowie Abwandlungen und Bearbeitungen des Werkes bzw. Inhaltes anfertigen: Sie müssen den Namen des Autors/Rechteinhabers in der von ihm festgelegten Weise nennen. Dieses Werk bzw. der Inhalt darf nicht für kommerzielle Zwecke verwendet werden. Die neu entstandenen Werke bzw. Inhalte dürfen nur unter Verwendung von Lizenzbedingungen weitergegeben werden, die mit denen dieses Lizenzvertrages identisch oder vergleichbar sind.
Previous research has found that ethnic educational inequalities arise even before children enrol... more Previous research has found that ethnic educational inequalities arise even before children enroll in primary school. It has been shown that especially for migrants, early participation in education has a positive impact on later educational outcomes, with the acquisition of the host-country language being one of the main mechanisms driving this effect. With the influx of over one million refugees into Germany in recent years, the integration of migrant children, especially refugee children, into the educational system is more salient in educational politics than ever. The first empirical findings on early and preschool education among refugees have shown that while a considerable share of refugee children attend a daycare center, they do so at lower rates than native and other migrant children. This paper aims to examine whether inequalities in the early education of refugee children can be explained by diff erent socioeconomic and migration-related factors known to be associated w...
In the recent wave of refugee immigration to Germany, many children and adolescents were among th... more In the recent wave of refugee immigration to Germany, many children and adolescents were among the migrants. Their integration into the German educational system will be a major challenge for the years and decades to come. The paper’s aim is to examine both general and refugee-specific mechanisms that likely explain ethnic and social inequality in education among refugee adolescents. The study is based on ReGES (Refugees in the German Educational System) data collected in five German federal states. Our results show that refugee adolescents attend lower grade levels and lower school types than the general pupil population in Germany. We further posit that established mechanisms to explain social and ethnic inequality are also applicable to refugee adolescents. Among refugee-specific aspects, we identify factors at the federal state level that influence the school placement of young refugees. Furthermore, at the individual level, post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with diff...
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016
In this article we use a combination of retrospective and prospective data from the Polish Migrat... more In this article we use a combination of retrospective and prospective data from the Polish Migration Project to examine the effect of social capital on the likelihood of migrating to Germany. We derive hypotheses from social capital theory about how personal connections to people with migratory experience affect the probability of migration, and we specify models to be estimated using both the retrospective and prospective data. Estimates of retrospective event history models confirm prior findings about social capital’s influence on migration decisions, and these findings are also generally confirmed using prospective data, even when potentially confounding variables are controlled. The prospective data also enable estimation of a two-stage decision model in which people first come to consider migration as an option and then rationally consider whether to depart. The estimates suggest that weak social ties are especially influential in predicting whether migration is considered, wh...
Die Bedeutung sozialen Kapitals für Migrationsprozesse, 2016
Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliograf... more Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografi e; detaillierte bibliografi sche Daten sind im Internet über abrufbar.
Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys, 2016
The data gathered in the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) can be used to describe a... more The data gathered in the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) can be used to describe and analyze the education of immigrants and their offspring across different stages in the school career and the life course and to uncover the origins of ethnic educational inequalities. In order to complement this task, it is necessary to adequately identify the population of interest. For this purpose, the NEPS includes a set of potential immigrant identifiers. This contribution provides an overview of the various measures and illustrates alternative ways of considering immigrants and their descendants. It also addresses a selection of problems that arise when applying one operationalization as opposed to another. The focus is on the country of birth, citizenship, and language use. The analyses are based on NEPS data from three starting cohorts: Kindergarten, Grade 5, and Grade 9. The findings indicate that the size of the immigrant population varies when using different operationalizations as well as across cohorts. Assignments based on citizenship and language use yield a substantially smaller migrant population than assignments via the country of birth. Drawing on the example of the two largest immigrant groups in Germany, namely children and youth of Turkish origin and from the Former Soviet Union, it turns out that the use of certain identifiers may not be equally appropriate for different groups.
Der Buchbeitrag geht auf das Potential der Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) fur Analyse... more Der Buchbeitrag geht auf das Potential der Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) fur Analysen zu Fragestellungen der Integrationsforschung ein. Im Anschluss an eine kurze Einfuhrung in die Rahmenkonzeption des NEPS werden zunachst Moglichkeiten zur Operationalisierung des Migrationshintergrunds aufgezeigt. Nachfolgend werden die fur die einzelnen Startkohorten zur Verfugung stehenden Fallzahlen ausgewiesen und die Zusammensetzung der Migrantenpopulation mit Blick auf den Generationenstatus sowie auf die Zugehorigkeit zu unterschiedlichen Herkunftsgruppen beschrieben. Es zeigt sich, dass der Anteil von Kindern aus Migrationsfamilien in der Kindergartenkohorte mit uber 30 % am hochsten ist, die Migrantenanteile jedoch uber die Startkohorten hinweg – mit zunehmendem Alter der Zielpersonen – zuruckgehen. In allen Stichproben gehoren Zuwanderer aus der Turkei und aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sowie deren Nachkommen zu den grosten Herkunftsgruppen. Die im NEPS erfassten migrationsspezifischen Inhalte – die ubergreifend fur die verschiedenen Startkohorten erhoben werden – stehen anschliesend im Fokus. Mit den zur Verfugung stehenden Angaben lassen sich vielfaltige Problemstellungen zu Prozessen der Integration behandeln. Abschliesend werden die Datenzugangsmoglichkeiten ebenso wie die zentralen Informationsquellen benannt.
KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Differences in educational goals between immigrants and the majority population have often been a... more Differences in educational goals between immigrants and the majority population have often been analysed at specific stages in their educational career. Little is known about longitudinal trajectories and the development of group differences over time. By applying common explanations (immigrant optimism, relative status maintenance, blocked opportunities, ethnic networks and information deficits), we derived specific hypotheses about the development of educational aspirations and expectations over time, focusing on families from Turkey. We drew upon data from the National Educational Panel Study to assess how aspirations and expectations for the highest school degree develop over the course of lower secondary education in Germany’s stratified school system. Applying a multi-actor perspective, we observed trajectories reported by students and their parents. First, we analysed the development of group differences. In line with prior research, we found higher aspirations and expectatio...
This article investigates the educational participation of refugee adolescents in Germany as a ma... more This article investigates the educational participation of refugee adolescents in Germany as a main European destination country of refugee migration. Opportunities and restrictions for school participation vary not only across countries–, but in the case of the Federal Republic of Germany, also within countries. The influence of different regional educational policies on refugees' educational participation and the extent to which they limit or enable individual agency, are however, widely understudied. We thus aim to analyze how different regional educational policies within Germany influence refugee students' educational participation regarding four central indicators: the duration until school enrollment, the type of class attended (newcomer vs. regular class), the type of school attended, and whether they are enrolled in settings appropriate for their age. We rely on a theoretical model which sees educational decisions as the result of rational cost-benefit calculations....
Mastering the language of the destination country is key to immigrant and refugee children's ... more Mastering the language of the destination country is key to immigrant and refugee children's educational success. Refugee children typically face the challenge of starting or continuing their educational carrier in a completely new context and in a completely new language. In this study, we examine the role of preschool attendance and formal language instruction in supporting young refugee children to acquire destination language competencies. We pursue three research objectives: First, we aim at identifying relevant conditions associated with German language acquisition in general. Second, we examine the (relative) importance of institutional learning support in preschool and language instruction. Third, we investigate whether the benefits of attending preschool are more pronounced for refugee children who have only limited exposure to the destination language outside of the institutional context, as compared to children who have more exposure to the language outside of prescho...
With the strong immigration of refugees at the end of the last decade, many minors came to German... more With the strong immigration of refugees at the end of the last decade, many minors came to Germany. Their integration into the German educational system will be one of the central tasks of German society and is important for the medium- and long-term integration of incoming young refugees in various areas of society. Data from the ReGES panel study enable analyses of the early integration process of refugees into the German educational system. The study focuses on two cohorts: 2,405 children of preschool age who are about to start school and 2,415 adolescents in lower secondary education who were followed during the transition into vocational training or upper secondary education. Each cohort was interviewed seven times over three school years from 2018 to 2020, with sampling procedures starting in 2017. This article provides an overview of the study design, contents, and research potential of ReGES. The large number of measures of individual characteristics, including objective com...
Pre-migration conditions can have important consequences for refugees' societal integration i... more Pre-migration conditions can have important consequences for refugees' societal integration in the arrival country. In the case of Syrians, information about the conditions under which they lived prior to migration is often scarce. This paper aims to give an overview over various educational aspects in pre-crisis Syria: The educational system, the educational participation of children and adolescents, and the educational attainment of the adult population. Our findings mainly rely on aggregate data from the Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics and univariate and bivariate analyses of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) carried out in Syria in 2006. We find that early childhood education (ECE) was much less common in Syria compared to Germany. In regards to school enrollment in Syria, most 7- and 8-year-olds attended primary school, whereas dropout rates among 14- to 16-year-olds were high. As common patterns in the educational participation of children and adolescents, w...
Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Will, G., & Rühl, S. (2004). Analytical report on legi... more Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Will, G., & Rühl, S. (2004). Analytical report on legislation: RAXEN national focal point Germany (RAXEN Report / European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, National Focal Point Germany). Wien: europäisches forum für migrationsstudien (efms) Institut an der Universität Bamberg; Europäische Stelle zur Beobachtung von Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-193036
This paper describes the consequences that the non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) in the con... more This paper describes the consequences that the non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic had on the data collection of the panel study ReGES and the solution adopted to continue the field work. The NPI were introduced during the 7th wave of the ReGES study and led to a disruption of the field work. In order to continue the field and to keep the data collected after the NPI comparable to the one collected before the NPI, we decided to switch the face-to-face mode to a telephone interview. The switch made content-related as well as technical and methodological adjustments to the instruments necessary. We also discuss methodological issues that must be taken into account when preparing and analysing the data.
Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Will, G., & Rühl, S. (2004). Analytical report on educ... more Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Will, G., & Rühl, S. (2004). Analytical report on education: national focal point for Germany (RAXEN Report / European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, National Focal Point Germany). Wien: europäisches forum für migrationsstudien (efms) Institut an der Universität Bamberg; Europäische Stelle zur Beobachtung von Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-193023
Terms of use Dieses Dokument steht unter folgender Creative Commons-Lizenz: -Sie dürfen das Werk ... more Terms of use Dieses Dokument steht unter folgender Creative Commons-Lizenz: -Sie dürfen das Werk bzw. den Inhalt unter folgenden Bedingungen vervielfältigen, verbreiten und öffentlich zugänglich machen sowie Abwandlungen und Bearbeitungen des Werkes bzw. Inhaltes anfertigen: Sie müssen den Namen des Autors/Rechteinhabers in der von ihm festgelegten Weise nennen. Dieses Werk bzw. der Inhalt darf nicht für kommerzielle Zwecke verwendet werden. Die neu entstandenen Werke bzw. Inhalte dürfen nur unter Verwendung von Lizenzbedingungen weitergegeben werden, die mit denen dieses Lizenzvertrages identisch oder vergleichbar sind.
Previous research has found that ethnic educational inequalities arise even before children enrol... more Previous research has found that ethnic educational inequalities arise even before children enroll in primary school. It has been shown that especially for migrants, early participation in education has a positive impact on later educational outcomes, with the acquisition of the host-country language being one of the main mechanisms driving this effect. With the influx of over one million refugees into Germany in recent years, the integration of migrant children, especially refugee children, into the educational system is more salient in educational politics than ever. The first empirical findings on early and preschool education among refugees have shown that while a considerable share of refugee children attend a daycare center, they do so at lower rates than native and other migrant children. This paper aims to examine whether inequalities in the early education of refugee children can be explained by diff erent socioeconomic and migration-related factors known to be associated w...
In the recent wave of refugee immigration to Germany, many children and adolescents were among th... more In the recent wave of refugee immigration to Germany, many children and adolescents were among the migrants. Their integration into the German educational system will be a major challenge for the years and decades to come. The paper’s aim is to examine both general and refugee-specific mechanisms that likely explain ethnic and social inequality in education among refugee adolescents. The study is based on ReGES (Refugees in the German Educational System) data collected in five German federal states. Our results show that refugee adolescents attend lower grade levels and lower school types than the general pupil population in Germany. We further posit that established mechanisms to explain social and ethnic inequality are also applicable to refugee adolescents. Among refugee-specific aspects, we identify factors at the federal state level that influence the school placement of young refugees. Furthermore, at the individual level, post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with diff...
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016
In this article we use a combination of retrospective and prospective data from the Polish Migrat... more In this article we use a combination of retrospective and prospective data from the Polish Migration Project to examine the effect of social capital on the likelihood of migrating to Germany. We derive hypotheses from social capital theory about how personal connections to people with migratory experience affect the probability of migration, and we specify models to be estimated using both the retrospective and prospective data. Estimates of retrospective event history models confirm prior findings about social capital’s influence on migration decisions, and these findings are also generally confirmed using prospective data, even when potentially confounding variables are controlled. The prospective data also enable estimation of a two-stage decision model in which people first come to consider migration as an option and then rationally consider whether to depart. The estimates suggest that weak social ties are especially influential in predicting whether migration is considered, wh...
Die Bedeutung sozialen Kapitals für Migrationsprozesse, 2016
Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliograf... more Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografi e; detaillierte bibliografi sche Daten sind im Internet über abrufbar.
Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys, 2016
The data gathered in the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) can be used to describe a... more The data gathered in the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) can be used to describe and analyze the education of immigrants and their offspring across different stages in the school career and the life course and to uncover the origins of ethnic educational inequalities. In order to complement this task, it is necessary to adequately identify the population of interest. For this purpose, the NEPS includes a set of potential immigrant identifiers. This contribution provides an overview of the various measures and illustrates alternative ways of considering immigrants and their descendants. It also addresses a selection of problems that arise when applying one operationalization as opposed to another. The focus is on the country of birth, citizenship, and language use. The analyses are based on NEPS data from three starting cohorts: Kindergarten, Grade 5, and Grade 9. The findings indicate that the size of the immigrant population varies when using different operationalizations as well as across cohorts. Assignments based on citizenship and language use yield a substantially smaller migrant population than assignments via the country of birth. Drawing on the example of the two largest immigrant groups in Germany, namely children and youth of Turkish origin and from the Former Soviet Union, it turns out that the use of certain identifiers may not be equally appropriate for different groups.
Der Buchbeitrag geht auf das Potential der Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) fur Analyse... more Der Buchbeitrag geht auf das Potential der Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) fur Analysen zu Fragestellungen der Integrationsforschung ein. Im Anschluss an eine kurze Einfuhrung in die Rahmenkonzeption des NEPS werden zunachst Moglichkeiten zur Operationalisierung des Migrationshintergrunds aufgezeigt. Nachfolgend werden die fur die einzelnen Startkohorten zur Verfugung stehenden Fallzahlen ausgewiesen und die Zusammensetzung der Migrantenpopulation mit Blick auf den Generationenstatus sowie auf die Zugehorigkeit zu unterschiedlichen Herkunftsgruppen beschrieben. Es zeigt sich, dass der Anteil von Kindern aus Migrationsfamilien in der Kindergartenkohorte mit uber 30 % am hochsten ist, die Migrantenanteile jedoch uber die Startkohorten hinweg – mit zunehmendem Alter der Zielpersonen – zuruckgehen. In allen Stichproben gehoren Zuwanderer aus der Turkei und aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sowie deren Nachkommen zu den grosten Herkunftsgruppen. Die im NEPS erfassten migrationsspezifischen Inhalte – die ubergreifend fur die verschiedenen Startkohorten erhoben werden – stehen anschliesend im Fokus. Mit den zur Verfugung stehenden Angaben lassen sich vielfaltige Problemstellungen zu Prozessen der Integration behandeln. Abschliesend werden die Datenzugangsmoglichkeiten ebenso wie die zentralen Informationsquellen benannt.
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