Chancennachteile von Jugendlichen aus Migrationsfamilien beim Übergang in berufliche Ausbildung

Abstract

Starting from the well documented fact that young people from migrant families are less successful in the transition from school to initial vocational education and training than non-migrants, we, in this paper, analyze the influence of social class on this transition difference. The central question is whether the difference in the transition between migrants and non-migrants can be mainly explained by inherent differences in social class or if migration background has an independent influence on transition. Our results show, first, that the educational aspirations of migrants and non-migrants clearly differ at the end of the school career. Migrants without access to tertiary education are significantly less interested in an apprenticeship or in other forms of fully qualifying vocational education and training than non-migrants, while migrants with access to tertiary education even more frequently apply for vocational education and training than the respective group of non-migrants. Social class has an influence on educational aspiration but does not eliminate the independent effect of migration background. Second, our results confirm that the success of transition to vocational education and training differs strongly between migrants and non-migrants. However, a negative effect of migration background can only be shown for migrants without access to tertiary education. Migrants who have access to tertiary education have the same transition chances as the respective group of non-migrants. The disadvantage for migrants without access to tertiary education remains even when including aspects of social class and it affects all different regions of origin.