Participation in Education of New Migrant Pupils in North Rhine-Westphalia: Regional Disparities and Supra-regional Allocation Patterns

Abstract

This paper discusses the question how the schooling strategies of regional school systems differentially influence the educational participation of new migrant pupils. Based on data from official school statistics, the article reconstructs educational pathways of new migrant pupils in North Rhine-Westphalia: The findings show considerable regional disparities in the distribution of `newcomers' to secondary school types on the one hand; on the other hand, a supra-regional allocation pattern can be reconstructed contributing to a target group-specific negative selection of these pupils into low qualifying school types.