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Jahr 2025
EDIREG at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology
14.05.2025: At the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, Oliver Winkler and Franziska Meyer will be organizing the session "Inequalities in Educational Integration of Young Refugees." In addition, Franziska Meyer will be presenting the paper "Refugee Women’s Transition to VET in Germany: Examining the Role of Gender Norms and Human Capital Endowments."
New publication on refugee women's integration into the German VET system
30.03.2025: The transition rate of refugee women into vocational education and training remains at a persistently low level. A new study, based on the IAB-BAMF-SOEP refugee survey, examines the extent to which this is associated with traditional gender norms as well as the women’s human capital endowments.
Meyer, Franziska (2025): Refugee Women’s Transition to VET in Germany: Examining the Role of Gender Norms and Human Capital Endowments. Social Inclusion 13, p. 1-20. DOI: 10.17645/si.9559
New publication on ALMPs for refugees
20.02.2025: A new study examines on the basis of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees whether participation in the ESF-BAMF program or an active labor market program (ALMP) offered by the Federal Employment Agency is associated with higher chances of refugees entering vocational education and training (VET).
Meyer, Franziska (2025): Integrating young refugees into VET: Do active labor market programs make a difference? Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, DOI: 10.1007/s11618-025-01293-4
Jahr 2024
EDIREG at GEBF 2025
28.10.2024: EDIREG will participate at the 12th GEBF Conference at the University of Mannheim between the 27th of January to the 29th of January 2025. Hannah Glinka presents `"Vielleicht muss ich einen anderen Weg finden." Berufliche Orientierung junger Geflüchteter nach Ankunft in Deutschland`. Oliver WInkler and Franziska Meyer are part of the symposium "Berufsorientierung und Übergänge in berufliche Ausbildung von geflüchteten Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen". Titles of their presentations are "Integration junger Geflüchteter in die berufliche Ausbildung: Wie zielführend sind berufsbezogene Fördermaßnahmen in Deutschland?" (Meyer) and "Entwicklung beruflicher Aspirationen von geflüchteten Schüler:innen nach Klasse 7 und 8" (Winkler & Busse).
Colloquium of the Institute for Sociology
01.10.2024: During the winter semester 2024–2025, the EDIREG project will host the Colloquium of the Institute for Sociology, focusing on the topic of “Integration of Refugees.” All interested parties are warmly invited to attend. The event program is available here .
EDIREG at the IAB workshop in Nuremberg
22.08.2024: Franziska Meyer will give a presentation entitled “Gendered Pathways: Exploring Inequalities in Young Refugee`s Transition to VET in Germany” at the IAB workshop “Training, Education and the Labor Market” on 17.10.2024 in Nuremberg.
EDIREG at the 5th conference of the refugee research network
01.07.2024: The EDIREG project will be represented at the 5th conference of the Refugee Research Network from 16.08.-18.08.2024 in Bonn. Together with Julian Seuring and Gisela Will, Melanie Olczyk will give the presentation: "Spatial inequalities in the context of school enrollment of children with a refugee background". Oliver Winkler is organizing the panel entitled "Spatial inequalities in the educational participation of refugee adolescents and young adults" together with Gisela Will.
EDIREG at the opening of the new premises of the youth employment agency in Kaiserslautern
01.07.2024: As part of the opening ceremony of the Youth Employment Agency of the City of Kaiserslautern, Franziska Meyer will give a lecture on 12.7.2024 entitled "Transitions of young refugees into vocational training", in which previous studies from the EDIREG project will be presented.
EDIREG at 16th ESA Conference
01.04.2024: Hannah Glinka will give a lecture at the 16th Conference of the ESA (European Sociological Association) from 27.08-30.08.2024 in Porto (Portugal) entitled: "Everything is constantly changing and that is constant.": Career orientations of young refugees in Germany over time.
EDIREG at SOEP2024 - 15th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conferenc
11.03.2024: Franziska Meyer is represented at the 15th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2024) with the presentation "Integrating young refugees into VET: Do German active labor market programs make a difference?". The conference will take place from July 4 to July 5, 2024 in Berlin at the BBAW.
Press release: Study on teacher assessments and performance development: Are boys better at math than girls?
05.03.2024: Link to the press release: https://pressemitteilungen.pr.uni-halle.de/index.php?modus=pmanzeige&pm_id=5704
Article by Hannah Glinka and Oliver Winkler accepted in the KZfSS
01.03.2024: The article examines the mathematical and scientific competencies of immigrant adolescents.
Glinka, Hannah, Oliver Winkler (2024): Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Kompetenzen zugewanderter Heranwachsender mit und ohne Fluchtbiographie: Welche Rolle spielt die sozioökonomische und ethno-linguale Schulklassenkomposition? Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Vol. 1 (1). DOI: 10.1007/s11577-024-00938-2 [accepted]