Summary / Resumé
Katja Neuhoff: Integration by Education. Challenges for school and vocational education
The group of female and male migrants in Germany is heterogeneous, as the problems it meets with are accordingly manifold. It is united, however, by its relation towards the host society in matters of integration. Integration, in fact, is regarded in Germany still as a duty to be fulfi lled by the immigrants and less as a genuine task of society as a whole. This uneven perception of integration is refl ected not only by the unbalanced relation of demands and supplies in integration but also by the forms of structural discrimination in institutions of education. For education being able to unfold its integrative potential basic changes are necessary which not only relate to the educational sector in general but also the area of social and labour politics as well as home affairs. Integration by education requires a more comprehensive social integration.