Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

200 Aspects of Integration
and openness to interethnic and interreligious contacts
(sections 5.2.2 to 5.2.3). The proportion of foreigners
in the area of residence is also examined in the context
of social integration (section 5.2.5.1).
> In the area of identificational/emotional integration,
attachment to Germany and the country of origin (section
5.2.6) and attachment to the place of residence
(section 5.2.5.2) are employed as indicators. Naturalisation
is often categorised under this dimension. The
aspect of citizenship and the mode of naturalisation is
considered in section 3.4.
5.1.1 Educational level
Education has a major influence on opportunities to participate
in the modern-day knowledge-based society. Analyses
from the microcensus reveal a substantially poorer situation
with regard educational level for people with a migrant background
living in Germany than for people without a migrant
background. A higher proportion of immigrants and their
dependents have no school qualifications or lower school qualifications
than people without a migrant background (Siegert
2008: 47).
School education statistics and various studies show that
Turkish migrants possess a particularly low standard of school
education in comparison to migrants from other recruitment
countries. This applies both to school qualifications acquired by
migrants of the first generation in their home country and to
school qualifications acquired by second-generation migrants
(Siegert 2008). For the first time, schooling and standards of
education are examined below for the entire group of Muslim