Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

204 Aspects of Integration
nominations are closely linked to the country of origin and the
attendant grounds for immigrating, as is revealed below.
5.1.1.2 Comparison between the countries of origin
Among the Muslim interviewees with a migrant background
63 per cent have attended school in Germany, while the
corresponding figure for the Christian interviewees stands at
39 per cent. The respective proportions reflect the age structure
at the time of immigration. The highest share of interviewees
who received their schooling in Germany is to be found among
Muslim and non-Muslim Turkish migrants (66 per cent, 73 per
cent) and among migrants from North Africa (63 per cent, 80
per cent), while the lowest levels apply among migrants from
Central Asia/CIS (14 per cent, 31 per cent).
Table 34: Schooling among interviewees with migrant background
according to region of origin and religion (in per cent)
Country
in which
school
attended
Religion
Southeast
Turkey
Europe
Central
Asia/CIS
Iran
South/
Southeast
Asia
Midd-
North
le
Africa
East
Other
parts of
Africa
Total
Germany Muslims 57,6 66,4 14,3 44,3 61,7 53,8 63,1 30,0 63,0
Other
religion
39,4 72,9 30,9 38,9 45,3 63,4 80,0 55,1 38,7
Country of
origin
Muslims 74,2 57,2 95,2 85,7 61,7 69,8 57,4 83,3 61,2
Other
religion
73,4 41,7 89,5 88,9 72,2 67,6 25,0 75,3 80,7
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 4,312
45 per cent of all interviewees who attended school in
Germany also attended school in their country of origin. This indicates
that almost half of the immigrant pupils were so-called
“lateral entrants” into the German education system. Some of