Jens Schneider

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Osnabrück University

Migration und die zunehmende Vielfalt der Gesellschaft fordern Kulturinstitutionen und die Kulturpolitik heraus. Das betrifft nicht nur die Frage der »Kanonisierung« dessen, was als »Hochkultur« gilt, sondern auch die Kulturproduktion selbst: Wer spricht, wer darf worüber sprechen? Welche Geschichten werden erzählt und damit sichtbar gemacht? Wer i...

Migration und die zunehmende Vielfalt der Gesellschaft fordern Kulturinstitutionen und die Kulturpolitik heraus. Das betrifft nicht nur die Frage der »Kanonisierung« dessen, was als »Hochkultur« gilt, sondern auch die Kulturproduktion selbst: Wer spricht, wer darf worüber sprechen? Welche Geschichten werden erzählt und damit sichtbar gemacht? Wer i...

Migration und die zunehmende Vielfalt der Gesellschaft fordern Kulturinstitutionen und die Kulturpolitik heraus. Das betrifft nicht nur die Frage der »Kanonisierung« dessen, was als »Hochkultur« gilt, sondern auch die Kulturproduktion selbst: Wer spricht, wer darf worüber sprechen? Welche Geschichten werden erzählt und damit sichtbar gemacht? Wer i...

Migration und die zunehmende Vielfalt der Gesellschaft fordern Kulturinstitutionen und die Kulturpolitik heraus. Das betrifft nicht nur die Frage der »Kanonisierung« dessen, was als »Hochkultur« gilt, sondern auch die Kulturproduktion selbst: Wer spricht, wer darf worüber sprechen? Welche Geschichten werden erzählt und damit sichtbar gemacht? Wer i...

Migration und die zunehmende Vielfalt der Gesellschaft fordern Kulturinstitutionen und die Kulturpolitik heraus. Das betrifft nicht nur die Frage der »Kanonisierung« dessen, was als »Hochkultur« gilt, sondern auch die Kulturproduktion selbst: Wer spricht, wer darf worüber sprechen? Welche Geschichten werden erzählt und damit sichtbar gemacht? Wer i...

Migration und die zunehmende Vielfalt der Gesellschaft fordern Kulturinstitutionen und die Kulturpolitik heraus. Das betrifft nicht nur die Frage der »Kanonisierung« dessen, was als »Hochkultur« gilt, sondern auch die Kulturproduktion selbst: Wer spricht, wer darf worüber sprechen? Welche Geschichten werden erzählt und damit sichtbar gemacht? Wer i...

Migration as a driver of cultural change has led not only to reflexions about the role of cultural institutions in producing narratives on belonging or nations but also to criticism of the institutional structures themselves. Manifold approaches have evolved that discuss how cultural institutions can more aptly represent the diversity of migration...

This chapter sketches the state of the debate on the roles and positions of native-born children of immigrants in European countries more than half a century after the transformation of these countries into immigration societies. It focusses on the social mechanisms, potentials and effects of the increasing number of socially upwardly mobile offspr...

This chapter focuses on self-definitions among professionally successful members of the second generation in four European countries: Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. The analysis departs from a concept of identity that allows for simultaneous and intersecting references to different categories of belonging, and looks for the ways in w...

This chapter discusses the wider societal and theoretical implications of the empirical outcomes presented in the previous chapters. It highlights the importance of what has been described as the ‘multiplier effect’ whereby social climbers accumulate relevant social and cultural capital step-by-step to compensate for the lack of directly useful res...

This chapter introduces the Pathways to Success and ELITES projects and explains the decision to focus on children of migrants who have achieved steep social mobility compared to their parents, and the connection with the earlier TIES project, a quantitative comparison of the second generation in several European countries. The first part of the ch...

Research on social networks of immigrants and their descendants usually starts from the distinction between ‘ethnic’ ties and ties to members of the population without migration background. In migration studies ‘ethnic’ ties are repeatedly associated with ‘strong ties’, whereas ‘weak ties’ – that are found to be essential for the access to jobs in...

Abstract The article confronts comparative research outcomes on factors that helped or hindered the educational success of immigrant youth and second generation in the past decades in several European countries with the institutional responses of European educational systems to the challenges of integrating a substantial number of refugee and other...

Abstract Since the war in Syria started in 2011, many children left their war-torn country, alone or together with their families, and fled to neighboring countries in the Middle East, to Turkey or to Europe. This article will compare how Syrian refugee children are included – or not - in school systems both in Europe (Sweden, Germany and Greece) a...

Um das Verhältnis zwischen Migration und Gesellschaft neu denken zu können, kehren Marc Hill und Erol Yildiz etablierte Gewissheiten um und beziehen die Erfahrung von Migration mit ein. Ihr Fokus richtet sich auf geteilte Geschichten, aus denen sich die Vielheit des urbanen Zusammenlebens erschließt. Migration wird so zum Ausgangspunkt weiterer ges...

This chapter discusses the big differences of how refugee children are incorporated into school systems in three European countries (Sweden, Germany and The Netherlands) and in Turkey. Over the past 5 years many refugee children made their way from war-torn countries to neighboring countries in the Middle East or to Europe. This chapter compares ho...

Um das Verhältnis zwischen Migration und Gesellschaft neu denken zu können, kehren Marc Hill und Erol Yildiz etablierte Gewissheiten um und beziehen die Erfahrung von Migration mit ein. Ihr Fokus richtet sich auf geteilte Geschichten, aus denen sich die Vielheit des urbanen Zusammenlebens erschließt. Migration wird so zum Ausgangspunkt weiterer ges...

In public discourse in Germany, identity is widely constructed along the juxtaposition of two categories: “German”—defined primordially in ethnic terms—and “migrant” or “of migration background.” But most urban schools today consist of a majority of children with such “non‐German” backgrounds, while “ethnic German” children have become one minority...

Tempelhof und Mariendorf, zwei eher ruhige, hauptsächlich von der Mittelschicht bewohnte Berliner Stadtviertel, stehen in der Regel nicht im Blick der Forschung über Eingewanderte im städtischen Raum. Die Stadt- und Migrationsforschung beschäftigt sich meist mit ‚klassischen‘ Einwanderungsquartieren bzw. den ‚Chiffren‘ dafür, wie beispielsweise ‚Kr...

We introduce what we have coined the multiplier effect. We explain the steep upward mobility of children of low-educated immigrants by studying how they overcome obstacles on their regular pathway, via alternative routes or through loopholes in the education and labour market system. The idea of the multiplier effect is that they virtually propel t...

Urban areas in Germany, particularly in those (former) industrial zones which have attracted considerable foreign labour since the early 1960s, are developing a “majority minority”-situation in demographic terms: a rapidly increasing share of the population belongs to an ethnic, religious and/or linguistic minority. In many former working class nei...

"Diversifying the teaching force has become a priority in many migrant-receiving jurisdictions worldwide with the growing mismatch between the ethnic backgrounds, cultures, languages, and religions of teachers and those of students and families. Arguments for diversification tend to be couched in terms of disproportionate representation and student...

Seit der Jahrtausendwende hat die Migrations- und Integrationspolitik in Deutschland überraschend Fahrt aufgenommen. Politisch ist nun offiziell, dass Deutschland von Zu- und Abwanderungen (mit)geprägt ist und auch künftig Einwanderung brauchen wird. Parallel sind jedoch auch neue Verwerfungen zu beobachten, welche die Bemühungen um stärkere Inklus...

One of the foremost challenges for contemporary Europe is the integration of new immigrants and their children. The second generation constitutes a rapidly growing and highly visible group of metropolitan youth that faces the dilemma of navigating their ethnic identities in a world that puts a premium on assimilation. This volume examines the lives...

One of the foremost challenges for contemporary Europe is the integration of new immigrants and their children. The second generation constitutes a rapidly growing and highly visible group of metropolitan youth that faces the dilemma of navigating their ethnic identities in a world that puts a premium on assimilation. This volume examines the lives...

One of the foremost challenges for contemporary Europe is the integration of new immigrants and their children. The second generation constitutes a rapidly growing and highly visible group of metropolitan youth that faces the dilemma of navigating their ethnic identities in a world that puts a premium on assimilation. This volume examines the lives...

The public debate about the second generation in Europe has taken a dramatic shift in the last five years. The riots in the banlieues in France, involving mostly Algerian and Moroccan second-generation youth, pitched the cherished republican model into deep crisis. In the Netherlands, arguments about the failure of the country's multicultural socie...

The post-1960 influx of immigrants and the coming of age of their children have made the neighborhoods of the big immigrant-receiving cities in the United States and western Europe increasingly more diverse in ethnic terms (Logan and Zhang 2010). And yet, despite the growing presence of these immigrants, no systematic study has yet been made of the...

Drawing upon results from the TIES survey on the second generation in eight European countries the authors propose a new perspective on integration or assimilation. The proposed comparative integration context theory argues that participation in social organizations and belonging to local communities across European cities is strongly dependent on...

Background/Context Much research is being done on Turkish immigrants and their children in Germany and the Netherlands, but almost always from a national perspective. To compare the situation, for example, regarding educational outcomes across the two countries has proved to be very difficult because of different sets, selection criteria, and time...

TIES policy brief for the stakeholders' conference held in Amsterdam, May 11-13, 2009.

Definitions of identity, which describe its dynamic and complex character, were formulated especially by those academic fields which set their focus predominantly, and often exclusively, on minorities or the excluded: e.g. feminist theory, Cultural Studies and antiracism. But the theory of identity politics as a field of struggle for self-positioni...

In some disciplines of qualitative social research, interviews are not very popular because they are seen as artificial, time consuming and not quite representative. The article explores the possibilities to transform these disadvantages into "virtues" with the help of a consistent discursive approach: How can interview texts be analyzed with regar...

The German debate on migration and citizenship reveals a close connection between the discourse on immigration (and the imagination of Germany as a multicultural society) and general perceptions of German national identity. The article analyses how `Germanness' is constructed and communicated through public and everyday discourses - on the basis of...