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Miriam Kuckuck et al., AJERR, 2020; 5:76

Research Article                                                                       AJERR 2020,5:76

              American Journal of Educational Research and Reviews
                                        (ISSN:2474-9265)

Integration through friendships in school classes - A study of pupils
with a migrant background in school friendship networks at primary
and secondary schools in Germany
Miriam Kuckuck, Claudia Henrichwark

Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachhochschule Südwestfalen
                          ABSTRACT
This paper deals with the integration of migrant children in infor-    *Correspondence to Author:
mal communication networks in primary and secondary schools            Jun. Prof. Dr. Miriam Kuckuck
in Germany. The basic assumption is that these networks can            Bergische Universität Wuppertal,
serve as an indicator for the networking and embedding that take       Fakultät für Human- und Sozialwis-
place within the class community and therefore can be used to          senschaften, Institut für Geographie
investigate the integration of pupils with a migrant background.       und Sachunterricht
The initial results of our network analytical study reveal that        Gaußstraße 20, 42119 Wupper-
pupils with a migrant background are well integrated into class        tal, Tel.: 0202/ 439 2407, Raum:
networks. The study discloses that the migrant background does         S.11.24, E-Mail: kuckuck@uni-wup-
not serve as a conclusive characteristic of the pattern of class       pertal.de
networks. The pupils are more or less networked with each other
regardless of their migrant background, though it did emerge that      How to cite this article:
children and adolescents born abroad, in particular, are far more      Miriam Kuckuck, Claudia Hen-
likely to have outgoing relationships that remain unreciprocated.      richwark. Integration through friend-
Remarkable is, that results from primary school correspond with        ships in school classes - A study of
data from secondary school.                                            pupils with a migrant background
                                                                       in school friendship networks at
Keyword: network analysis, integration, school research, friend- primary and secondary schools in
ships, primary school, secondary school                          Germany. American Journal of Ed-
                                                                       ucational Research and Reviews,
                                                                       2020,5:76.

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1. Introduction                                         generation) or whether the persons themselves
                                                        were born in Germany but have at least one par-
(Social) networks are found everywhere nowa-
                                                        ent born abroad (2nd generation).
days: not only the Internet and social platforms
such as Facebook and Instagram connect us,              The epistemological interest of the present study
networks are promoted in science policy and in          is to explore the extent to which children who do
everyday work. Networks can be forced out of            not directly belong to the majority society - i.e.
social relationships based on affection, but also       children with a non-German family language -
by an organizational unit through cooperation           have arrived in the school world and whether
(Holzer 2010). Social relationships can be              successful integration processes can be found in
unique, but they can also result in yearlong            the form of interethnic friendship relationships.
friendships. School especially school classes of-       2. Friendship relations at school
fer a possibility for children and young people to      2.1 Formal and informal education
form friendships. Not only since the migration
                                                        School is the only institution in Germany that
movements in 2015/16, schools in Germany
                                                        must be attended by all children and young peo-
have been characterised by the integration of
                                                        ple. Many tasks are assigned to it in order to pro-
children and young people from different coun-
                                                        vide all pupils with equal educational opportuni-
tries. But these developments have once again
                                                        ties and thus enable them to participate in soci-
sparked a discussion in Germany about the inte-
                                                        ety in the future (Becker 2011). It is considered
gration of children with a migration background.
                                                        a place of "socially controlled and organized so-
Schools play an important role in the integration
                                                        cialization" (Fend, 1981, 2). In this context, Fend
of children with a migration background. Not only
                                                        (2009) describes and explains four functions of
school itself, but also relationships and friend-
                                                        school: (1) enculturation, (2) qualification, (3) al-
ships among the children can lead to better inte-
                                                        location and (4) integration:
gration. According to Esser (2006), friendships
can be seen as an indicator for the integration of      The school teaches language and writing skills
children with a migration background. The extent        as well as values and norms and cultural under-
to which children with a migration background           standings of the world.
are integrated into informal class structures is        Furthermore, school qualifies the students
examined in this paper. For this purpose, friend-       through skills and abilities for a later professional
ship networks are examined with the help of a           life.
standardized questionnaire of children in grades        By means of examinations, a performance hier-
3 and 4 at primary schools in NRW (n=1,216)             archy is created which allows allocation and dis-
and compared with data from 52 classes of 940           tribution over career paths.
pupils in grades 5-10 at secondary schools.             Through the participation of the pupils, they are
To investigate informal communication and con-          to be integrated into society in order to legitimize
tact structures in school classes and in the pri-       the existing forms of social rule. This also in-
vate sphere, the method of social network anal-         cludes preserving cultural diversity and identity
ysis is suitable. Within this study, a distinction is   and providing all children and young people with
made between children with and without a mi-            equal educational opportunities. In addition to
gration background according to the question            language promotion, Fend (2009) also calls for
posed: "A person has a migration background if          the promotion of coexistence (of different reli-
he or she or at least one parent was not born           gions).
with German citizenship" (Federal Statistical Of-       Sometimes, however, the institution school does
fice, n.y.). In addition, according to Stanat &         not fulfil these tasks, as international compara-
Edele (2011), a distinction is made as to whether       tive studies such as PISA (2018) and TIMSS
the persons themselves are immigrants (1st
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(2015) show. Especially male pupils from educa-        social competences and promote the internalisa-
tionally disadvantaged homes are strongly af-          tion of professional and technical competences.
fected by educational poverty - this tendency be-      From this perspective, the peer group offers a
comes even more apparent when there is a mi-           wide range of learning, experience and experi-
gration background, as Quenzel and Hurrel-             mental opportunities, which contribute [to] devel-
mann already (2010) found.                             opment of individual lifestyles, norms, values
The primary goal of school is formal education,        and expressions" (Harring et al., 2010, 9).
which takes place in the classroom. There are          Friendships, unlike family relationships, are cho-
numerous academic discourses and social dis-           sen voluntarily, which means that the people in-
cussions on how teaching and school should be          volved choose for their own sake and not be-
structured (e.g. Hattie, 2009). Here, formal edu-      cause of certain roles or functions. Thus, friend-
cation is organized through curricula and frame-       ships are a voluntarily chosen space, not con-
work guidelines (Harring, 2010).                       trolled by adults, in which children and adoles-
                                                       cents can practice their behaviour, lifestyles, ex-
In addition to this regulated function, the school
                                                       pressions, etc., without the risk of sanctions
offers an arena for everyday exchange between
                                                       (Harring et al., 2010).
peers through informal education (Aufenvenne,
Kuckuck, Leimbrink, Pochadt, Steinbrink, 2018          In friendships, among other things, technical and
a). Informal education is not planned, but rather      professional skills are acquired, such as media
happens unplanned, indirectly and through inci-        and language skills, both of which are of enor-
dental educational processes. Classical places         mous importance for today's pupils. The 15th
of informal education are the family, media            Children and Youth Report also emphasises on
worlds and peers (Harring, 2010). In particular,       the importance of informal learning places and
interaction with peers is of great importance for      the importance of language (Federal Ministry for
almost all aspects of the personality develop-         Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and
ment of children and young people (Trappmann,          Youth 2017). Reinders (2003) has demonstrated
2003).                                                 a positive influence on the acquisition of the Ger-
                                                       man language for young people with a migration
"Conceptually, the totality of all persons with
                                                       background when dealing with Germans of the
whom a person has relationships can be de-
                                                       same age. Conversely, German youths with reg-
scribed as his or her personal social network"
                                                       ular contact to peers with a migration back-
(Laireiter & Lager, 2006, 70). In the context of
                                                       ground show a higher openness towards other
this study, the social networks that children build
                                                       cultures and less xenophobia (Reinders, Man-
up within their school class are of interest. Social
                                                       golds, Greb, 2005).
relationships represent a central reference sys-
tem for every person - regardless of age - which       2.2 Composition of social networks
plays a key role in recognition, well-being and re-    Even though a distinction can be made between
flective self-assurance (Harring et al., 2010).        friendships and peer groups (from Salisch &
With increasing age, at the latest with adoles-        Seiffge-Krenke, 1996), the peer group provides
cence, the importance of relationships with            the framework by limiting the survey within a
peers increases and replaces the importance of         school class consisting of children of the same
family and parents. As a result, new educational       age. Within this peer group, children form friend-
and socialisation spaces for informal learning,        ships that can develop in the course of childhood
such as the acquisition of social skills, are made     from self-referential orientations to forms of part-
possible in the school yard, during free periods       ner-centred fair exchange (Petillon 2011). Sel-
but also in leisure time. "In this way, peer rela-     mann (1984) distinguishes five levels of friend-
tionships - especially friendship relationships -      ship understanding in childhood, including short-
have a significant influence on the acquisition of
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lived playmates, one-sidedly conceived friend-        tendency towards cultural homophilia is not as
ships, but also trusting mutual relationships.        pronounced as in the studies from the Anglo-
Children make friendships based on similarities       American area. Nevertheless, they were able to
(Berscheid, 1985). Friendships are by no means        establish in their sample that the circle of friends
formed indiscriminately.                              among children with a German mother tongue is
                                                      far more homophile than the circle of friends
Gansbergen (2014) has investigated whether
                                                      among children with a migration background.
the proportion of German friends among children
                                                      Following Esser (2006), they argue that the anal-
with a migration background has a positive effect
                                                      ysis of the cultural composition of the circle of
on their success at school. When evaluating the
                                                      friends can be used as a helpful indicator of the
data on primary school children, it became clear
                                                      extent of social integration.
that most children have an educationally homo-
geneous network. The correlations of the grades       McPherson et al (2001) have shown that actors
with the characteristics of the friends are identi-   are more likely to enter into relationships with
cal or comparable for children with and without a     others who are similar to them in terms of age,
migration background. Accordingly, the propor-        gender and ethnic origin. International studies
tion of German friends has no effect on the           have already demonstrated the high influence of
school performance of children with a migration       ethnic composition on friendships (Baerveldt et
background. Regardless of the migration back-         al., 2007; Quillian & Campell, 2003). Zentarra
ground, the cultural and economic capital en-         (2014) and Winkler et al. (2011) were also able
dowment of their family is decisive for pupils        to show in primary school children in Bremen
(Gansbergen, 2014).                                   that especially close friendships with children of
                                                      the same ethnic origin (here Turkish and Rus-
Kuperschmidt, De Rosier & Patterson (1995)
                                                      sian children) are present.
were able to show in Anglo-American children of
primary school age that friends were formed not       Thus far there are few studies on networks of
only in terms of gender and ethnic group ("black"     children (Laireiter & Lager 2006). Older studies
vs. "white"), but also in terms of socio-demo-        on children's networks often focus on social in-
graphic background, school performance and            competence and later misdevelopment (over-
behaviour (e.g. shyness, dealing with aggres-         view in Wittmann 1991). The importance of pos-
sion).                                                itive development in the focus of social interac-
                                                      tion has been less studied so far. However,
This phenomenon is called homophilia and is de-
                                                      these studies could show that socially competent
scribed in a large number of studies among chil-
                                                      children develop better and can also adapt to sit-
dren and young people in terms of gender and
                                                      uations later. In a study with 60 children, Laireiter
ethnic group (e.g. Boulton & Smith, 1996, Gra-
                                                      & Lager (2006) were able to show that in the net-
ham & Cohen ,1997). It has also been shown
                                                      work and competence contexts investigated, so-
that homophilia with regard to ethnic groups, in-
                                                      cial relationships are primarily influenced by spe-
creases with age (Graham et al. ,1998, Aboud,
                                                      cific socially oriented competences such as con-
Mendelson & Purdy, 2003). However, these
                                                      tact ability, self-confidence and appreciation by
studies refer to the United States and United
                                                      others. Kuckuck, Henrichwark and Jeschke
Kingdom English-speaking world only. For the
                                                      (2020) can show that primary school children
German-speaking countries, Reinders & Man-
                                                      with a need for support have fewer friendly rela-
gold (2005) were able to show that homophilia
                                                      tionships than other children in the class and that
and ethnic group (here a division into German,
                                                      a need for support is more likely to lead to ho-
Italian and Turkish 14-year-olds) are less pro-
                                                      mophilic friendships than a migration back-
nounced than in previous studies. Strohmaier,
                                                      ground. However, gender is the most limiting el-
Nestler & Spiel (2006) were able to show in their
                                                      ement of separation.
study with 204 children in the 4th grade that the
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2.3 Interethnic peer relations and friendships          3. Methodological process and description
School is considered to play an important role in       of the underlying data
the integration of children with non-German fam-        Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a suitable
ily languages. Language is often seen as the es-        method for investigating how children with a mi-
sential moment of integration (Esser, 2006). Pre-       gration background are involved in friendship re-
vious research on friendship networks has               lations within school classes. The SNA can be
shown that children in secondary schools with a         used to analyse overall networks, which are de-
second-generation migration background have             fined as a previously delineated set of social ac-
as many contacts as children without a migration        tors (nodes) and relationships (edges/relations)
background (Aufenvenne et al. 2018 a, b, c).            existing between them (Steinbrink, Aufenvenne
However, children who were themselves born              & Schmidt, 2013). In this study, a school class is
abroad (first generation) have significantly fewer      an overall network, the actors are the individual
friendship relationships.                               pupils and the relationships are the mentions of
Windzio and Bicer (2013) have also shown that           the pupils among themselves. These relation-
ethnic segregation in school relationships (low-        ships can be well captured by a network analysis
cost situations) is lower among primary school          (Bicer, Windzio & Wingens, 2014). Based on
children than in private leisure contacts (high-        Fuhse (2016), it is assumed that the relation-
cost situations) among interethnic friendships. In      ships surveyed are comparable. These data
the case of inter-ethnic friendships, the situation     cannot provide any information about the exact
is exactly the other way round: the closer the          intensity of the relationships; this would require
friendships in private life, the higher the relation-   additional qualitative surveys (e.g. through inter-
ships are in school.                                    views). Nevertheless, the data can provide infor-
                                                        mation on whether and how children with a mi-
Windzio (2012) examined the influence of paren-
                                                        gration background are included in class struc-
tal contacts in friendship networks of primary
                                                        tures. When considering friendships as an indi-
school children and was able to show that there
                                                        cator of inclusion in school classes, mutual (re-
is less frequent contact between parents in inter-
                                                        ciprocal) relationships are particularly useful.
ethnic friendships and that the children are
therefore less likely to be invited to leisure activ-   Within the framework of the study, the migration
ities such as birthday parties. Bicer (2014) was        background according to Stanat/Edele 2011 will
able to show for German pupils in the 4th grade         be operationalized as follows: Second genera-
that the degree of heterogeneity within the class,      tion children with a migration background are
i.e. children of different ethnicity, has an effect     born in Germany themselves, at least one parent
on friendship relationships. In contrast, class         was born outside Germany. Children with a first-
composition did not play a significant role in pro-     generation migration background were born
moting interethnic friendship among Turkish pu-         abroad (Stanat & Edele, 2011). The data of the
pils.                                                   present study was collected together with stu-
                                                        dents during teaching research seminars at the
Previous research on integration, friendships,
                                                        University of Osnabrück and the Bergische Uni-
and school lacks network analytical data that
                                                        versität Wuppertal. Pupils of secondary schools
would allow a comparison between primary and
                                                        (grades 5-10) in Lower Saxony were surveyed
secondary school students in Germany. This ar-
                                                        as well as children in grades 3 and 4 at primary
ticle aims to close this research gap by address-
                                                        schools in North Rhine-Westphalia. In total, data
ing the following question: To what extent are
                                                        from 2,201 pupils from 113 classes is available
pupils with a migration background integrated
                                                        (Tab.1).
into school friendship networks and with whom
                                                        Just under half of the children at primary schools
do they maintain friendships?

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(49%) and over half of the pupils at secondary                hardly ever occurred so far, but there are at least
schools have no migration background (Tab. 2).                two students per survey who could help with
A standardized questionnaire was used for the                 problems and questions. In addition to the stu-
data collection, which has already been tested                dent survey, the teachers of the respective class
with secondary school students (Aufenvenne et                 also fill out a questionnaire in order to obtain fur-
al., 2018a, 2018b,2018c) and was then modified                ther information about the children (special edu-
and used for the survey with primary school chil-             cational needs, time spent in Germany, class af-
dren (Kuckuck et al., 2020). In addition to attrib-           filiation, etc.) After all data has been entered into
utes of the individual children such as age, gen-             an Excel table (relations and attributes), the data
der, language spoken at home and relational                   is anonymised and adjusted. Each child is given
data for friendships was collected. For this pur-             a code which allows the assignment to a class,
pose, questions are asked about school and pri-               but does not allow any further conclusions such
vate friendship relationships (e.g. Who would                 as the name. The stored attributes such as gen-
you like to sit next to when working with a part-             der and age can be recognized depending on
ner? Who do you invite to your home?). On the                 the question. After cleansing and anonymizing
prepared questionnaire the children find the first            the data, they are evaluated and illustrated with
names of each child in their own class, so that               the help of the network analysis programs UCI-
the corresponding answers only have to be cir-                Net (Borgatti et al., 2009) and Gephi (Bastian, et
cled. The data collection takes about 25 minutes              al., 2009).
per class. Language barriers or problems have

                  Table 1: Number and distribution of classes examined (n=113)

 Primary School                 Secondary School

 3. Kl.          4. Kl.         5. Kl.           6. Kl.        7. Kl.         8. Kl.      9. Kl.       10. Kl.

 n=34            n= 27          n= 9             n= 7          n= 6           n= 8        n= 7         n= 10

 n= 61                          n= 52

          Table 2: Distribution of pupils according to migration background (n= 2,201)

                                                             Primary School              Secondary School

 Pupils without a migration background                       49 %                        55 %

 Pupils with a migration background of the 2nd generation 17 %                           13 %

 Pupils with a migration background of the 1st generation    34 %                        32 %

With the help of these programs, various calcu-               For this article the degree centrality is calculated
lations on the friendship networks in the classes             in the first step. "Degree centrality is the sum of
can now be performed.                                         the relations that an actor has to other actors in
                                                              the network" (Steinbrink et al. 2013). For this
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purpose, all relations of a child are counted. Pu-     way" (Steinbrink et al., 2013, 54). This makes it
pils with many relationships within their class-       possible to indicate within a class whether pupils
room network can be considered more important          with certain attributes (gender, migration back-
than those with few relationships. A distinction       ground) are more strongly networked with one
can be made between inbound relationships              another. Homophilia is indicated by means of the
(Indegree) and outbound relationships (Outde-          normalized E-I-Index. "[Roughly speaking], net-
gree). Inbound relationships thus show how of-         works with values between -0.5 and -1 can be
ten a pupil A was mentioned by her classmates.         interpreted as homophilic and those with values
Outgoing relationships show how many class-            between 0.5 and 1 as heterophilic" (Steinbrink et
mates A names. The data also shows who                 al., 2013, 54).
names whom or is named by whom. The calcu-             4. results
lation thus provides information about the social
                                                       4.1 Density
activity of individual pupils and is thus an indica-
tor of their sociability. The mutual naming (recip-    The analysis of the class networks shows how
rocal relationships) is of particular importance       differently the classes are structured. There are
when considering friendship relationships. Re-         classes in which the pupils have many relation-
ciprocal relationships are defined as relation-        ships with each other and classes in which the
ships between at least two students who name           number of relationships is much smaller. This is
each other (Fuhse, 2016). Friendship relation-         shown in Figure 1 by the number of lines be-
ships can only be discussed when they are              tween the individual points. The calculation of
named reciprocally. For this purpose, two-tailed       the density values underlines the range of the
t-tests were calculated to determine statistical       different class structures. The minimum value is
significance with a significance level of
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4.2 Centrality of pupils                                    without a migration background and those of the
 The calculation of degree centrality is important          first generation in terms of incoming, outgoing
for determining the position of pupils with a mi-           and reciprocal relationships (< 0.05). Not statis-
gration background and those who need support               tically significant are the mean values of the re-
(Tab. 3). There is a statistically significant differ-      lationships between the children without a migra-
ence in network activity between the children               tion background and the children of the second
                                                            generation.

                                              Table 3: Degree centrality
                           Indegree                     Outdegree                    reciprocal relations

                           Primary       Secondary      Primary         Secondary    Primary          Secondary
                           School        School         School          School       School           School

 Pupils without a mi-
 gration background             9,0             10,1          8,6            9,7            6,8             7,3

 Pupils with a migration
 background of the 2nd
 generation                     8,6              8,8          8,6            8,9            6,6             6,2

 Pupils with a migration
 background of the 1st
 generation                     6,3              6,4          8,7            11,4           4,9             4,7

When comparing the average number of rela-                  4.3 Homophily
tionships, it becomes clear that the children with-          In addition to the average number of relation-
out a migration background and the children of              ships as an indicator of integration, interests in-
the second generation have far more ingoing,                clude who students have friendships with. For
outgoing and reciprocal relationships than the              this reason, friendship relationships are consid-
children of the first generation. This phenome-             ered from the perspective of gender and migra-
non applies to primary and secondary school                 tion background. For this purpose, the statistical
classes alike. There is a large difference be-              homophile value is calculated using the E-I Index
tween outgoing and incoming relationships                   (see Table 3) (E-I Index: values between -0.5
among first generation children in secondary                and -1 are referred to as homophile). While the
schools (11.4 to 6.4 average relationships). This           migration background in no way leads to sepa-
may be an indicator of the sociability of pupils in         ration within the class, the formation of friend-
the                                                         ships is homophilic in terms of gender.
On the other hand, this could also be an indicator
that efforts are not reciprocated by in-depth rela-
tionships. It is also clear that reciprocal relation-
ships are lower in all three groups.

                                                 Table 4: Homophile
Homophile                             Primary School                     Secondary School
Gender                                -0,55                              -0,68
migration background                  -0,18                              -0,17

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