Immigrants´ Integration: Educational Opportunities & Life Chances

Programme

Date: 23 June – 28 June 2019

Venue: Congressi Stefano Franscini (CSF), Monte Verità, Ascona, Lago Maggiore, Switzerland (http://www.csf.ethz.ch/).

Final Programme (PDF, 196KB)

Sunday, 23 June 2018

 16:00-19:30  Registration
 19:30  Dinner

Monday, 24 June 2018

 9:15-9:40  Welcome (organisers, CSF/Fond. Monte Verità)
 Session: Immigrant-specific Educational inequalities in Primary and Secondary Schooling
 9:40-10:30

Keynote: Migration and status attainment: a long-term perspective

Ineke Maas (University of Utrecht/NL)

  Coffee break (10:30-10:50)
 10:50-11:30 The primary effect of ethnic origin – rooted in early childhood?

Birgit Becker (Goethe University Frankfurt/DE) & Oliver Klein (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, MZES/DE)

 11:30-12:10 Are students with migration background aiming too high? Competence development after ambitious transitions from primary to secondary education in Germany

Stephan Dochow (University of Bamberg/DE) & SebastianNeumeyer (Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg/DE)

   Lunch (12:20-14:00)
 14:00-14:50 Keynote: Selectivity in European immigration

Cornelia Kristen (University of Bamberg/DE)

 14:50-15:30 Upper secondary education: A cohort comparison with TREE & DAB data for German-speaking Switzerland

David Glauser (University of Bern/CH)

Coffee Break (15:30-15:50)
 15:50-16:30 The story after immigrants’ positive educational choices: Real improvement or back to square one?

Jörg Dollmann & Markus Weißmann (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, MZES/DE)

 16:30-17:10 Do Peers Stabilize Immigrants’ Optimism? The Co-Evolution of Educational Aspirations and Friendship Networks of Ethnic Minority and Ethnic Majority Adolescent

Georg Lorenz (Institute for Educational Quality Improvement, IQB & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/DE), Zsófia Boda (ETH Zurich/CH), Zerrin Salikutluk (Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research, BIM/DE & Malte Jansen (Institute for Educational Quality Improvement, IQB & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/DE)

 17:30-18:30 Keynote & Public Lecture: Family and migration

Laura Bernardi (University of Lausanne/CH)

 19:30  Dinner

Tuesday, 25 June 2019

 Session: Immigrant-specific Educational inequalities – Vocational education and Higher Education
 9:00-9:50 Keynote: Immigrants in Vocational Education and Training from the perspective of training companies

Christian Imdorf (University of Hannover/DE)

 9:50-10:30 Stepping stones and stumbling blocks. Does the regional opportunity structure explain ethnic penalties in education?

Christoph Zangger (University of Zurich/CH)

  Coffee break (10:30-10:50)
 10:50-11:30 Adaptation processes of educational goals in families with a migration background: A longitudinal perspective on the development of idealistic and realistic educational aspirations

Thomas Zimmermann, Birgit Becker (Goethe University Frankfurt/DE) & Cornelia Gresch (Institut for Educational Quality Improvement/DE)

 11:30-12:10 Aim High and Hit the Mark? Educational Choice, Dropout, and Achievement in Upper Secondary Education among Children of Immigrants in Denmark

Jesper Fels Birkelund (University of Copenhagen/DEN)

Lunch (12:20-14:00)
 14:00-14:50 Keynote: Pathways to and within Higher Education for youths of immigrant backgrounds

Jake Murdoch (University of Burgundy/FR)

 14:50-15:30 Counterbalancing Lacking Resources? The Subjective Well-Being of Migrant Youths on Non-Academic and Academic Tracks

Andreas Genoni (University of Hamburg/DE)

 15:30-16:10 “With a little help from my educated friends”. Revising the role of social capital for new immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany

Julia Rüdel & Jan-Philip Steinmann (University of Göttingen/DE)

  Coffee Break & Apero (16:10-16:30)
 16:30-17:30

Chaired Poster Session

  • Agnieszka Kanas (University of Amsterdam/NL), Yuliya Kosyakova & Ehsan Vallizadeh (Institute for Employment Research, IAB/DE): Linguistic enclaves and language proficiency of immigrants: Self-selection or learning?
  • Camilla Borgna (Collegio Carlo Alberto/IT) & Dalit Contini (University of Turin/IT): Divided we stand: Immigrants’ and natives’ decision-making processes at first tracking in Italy
  • Gabriel Tarriba Martinez Lopez (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin/DE): Aiming high or fitting in? The educational aspirations of mixed children in Western Europe
  • Janna Teltemann (University of Hildesheim/DE) & Reinhard Schunck (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne/DE): The Effects of National Performance Standards on Ethnic Educational Inequality – Findings from a Fixed Effects Approach with PISA Data
  • Marcus H. Kristiansen (Utrecht University, ICS/NL), Ineke Maas (Utrecht University, ICS/NL) & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/NL), Sanne Boschman (Utrecht University, ICS/NL) & J. Cok Vrooman (Utrecht University, ICS/NL & The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, SCP/NL): How the Neighborhood Context Affects Refugees’ Transition from Benefit Receipt-to-Work: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Netherlands
  • Milena Prekodravac & Janina Söhn (Sociological Research Institute, SOFI, Göttingen University/DE): Precarious paths to integration of adult immigrants: 
education as a stepping stone or a step backwards?
  • Regine Schmidt (University of Bamberg/DE): Educational selectivity of immigrants’ in Germany
  • Richard Nennstiel (University of Bern/CH): Ethnic penalties on the Swiss VET market? A negative binomial regression approach
  • Sandra Gilgen (University of Bern/CH): Educational Inequalities and Discrimination – When Stereotypes Affect Teacher Track Recommendations for Secondary School
  • Sharon Maya Berger (University of Bern/CH): Happiness, Education and Immigration. A panel analysis of the happiness of immigrants in Switzerland
 19:30  Dinner

Wednesday, 26 June 2019

10:00-17:00  Excursion

(additional information are provided upon arrival)

19:30  Conference Dinner

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Session: Immigrants´ Educational trajectories and life chances – School-to-work transitions and labour market chances
9:40-10:30 Keynote: Ethnic inequalities in Educational trajectories  and  access to employment of second-generation immigrants:  gendered patterns?

Yaël Brinbaum (Conservatoire des arts et métiers, Cnam, LISE, Centre d'études de l'emploi, CEE/FR)

Coffee break (10:30-10:50)
10:50-11:30 Can Training Turn the Tide? Migrant-Native differentials in the uptake and effects of Active Labour Market Policies in Belgium

Tair Kasztan Flechner, Karel Neels & Jonas Wood (University of Antwerp/BE)

 11:30-12:10 Growing up in exile: school-to-work transitions of refugees in Scandinavia

Christopher Jamil de Montgomery (University of Copenhagen/DEN) & Thomas Lorentzen (University of Bergen/NO)

Lunch (12:20-14:00)
14:00-14:40 Human Capital and the Employment Outcomes of Refugees in Austria: Evidence on Gendered Effects of Education and Source Country Characteristics

Nadia Steiber (Institute for Advanced Studies/AT, Wittgenstein Centre for Global Human Capital/AT), Stefan Vogtenhuber & Andrea Leitner (Institute for Advanced Studies/AT):

14:50-16:20 Round Table Presentations

Educational Inequalities: Resources/Integration

  • Alessio Buonomo & Giuseppe Gabrielli (University of Naples Federico II/IT): Does ethnic identity affects the school attainment of second-generation?
  • Marie Labussiere, Maarten Vink & Mark Levels (Maastricht University/NL): Analyzing the impact of citizenship on children of immigrants’ educational trajectories using sequence analysis
  • Michael Beck & Julia Ha (Teacher Training College St. Gallen/CH): Social Integration of Immigrant Youth in Eastern Switzerland
  • Verena Ortmanns (GESIS – Lebniz Institute for the Social Science/DE): Migrants’ German language proficiency and its improvement over time – with a special focus on measuring migrants’ homeland education

Educational Inequalities: Aspirations

  • Judith Offerhaus (University of Cologne/DE): Education is great, the grades not so? Examining the migrant-native differences in attitudes toward education and educational success
  • Katja Pomianowicz (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena/DE): Explaining the immigrant expectation gap in four different countries. The role of educational tracking
  • Markus Weißmann & Tobias Roth (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, MZES/DE): Occupational aspirations and ethnic inequalities at the transition from school to vocational training in Germany
  • Sara Möser (University of Bern/CH): Evolution of Vocational Aspirations of Children of Immigrants

Monetary and Non-Monetary Returns

  • Anja Wunder (Institute for Employment Research, IAB/DE): Task-specific selection and the immigrant wage gap
  • Lex Thijssen (Utrecht University/NL): Is There Evidence for Statistical Discrimination in Hiring? An Empirical Assessment of the Assumptions Underlying Statistical Discrimination Theory
  • Hanna Brenzel & Yuliya Kosyakova (Institute for Employment Research, IAB/DE): How does the length of asylum procedure and legal status affect the labor market integration of refugees in Germany?
Coffee Break (16:20-16:40)
16:40-17:30 Keynote: Social History with Microdata: Life Courses and Social Change

Karl Ulrich Mayer (Yale University/US & New York University, Abu Dhabi/UAE & Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin/DE)

19:30  Dinner

Friday, 28 June 2019

Session: Immigrants´ Life chances – Non-monetary returns on education
 9:30-10:20 Keynote: The role of accent for immigrants’ integration

Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim/DE)

10:20-11:00 Barriers to Integration of Immigrants in Korean and Japanese Labor Markets: Evidence from Survey Data

Nate Breznau (University of Bremen/DE)

11:00-11:40 Do immigrants have to be more skilled? Education, skills, and job quality in Germany

Simone Haasler, Nora Müller (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences/DE), Alexandra Nonnenmacher (University of Siegen/DE) & Alexandra Wicht (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

11:40 Award Presentation & Farewell
Lunch (12:00-13:00)