Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Universität Osnabrück. He studied Anthropology, Musicology, Linguistics and Ethnic Studies at the universities of Hamburg and Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Universität Tübingen. After a two-year research stay at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro he became coordinator of a major European comparative research project at Universiteit van Amsterdam. His major recent publications include “Demographic ‘Megatrends’ and Their Implications” (in: Siirtolaisuus/Migration Journal 3/2018: 26-31); Erfolg nicht vorgesehen. Sozialer Aufstieg in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft – und was ihn so schwer macht (Münster: Waxmann 2018; with C. Lang and A. Pott); “Generation Mix – der Versuch einer Annäherung” (in: M.Hill/E. Yildiz (eds.): Postmigrantische Visionen, Bielefeld: transcript, 129-146); Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts. Critical Perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2016 (edited with Clea Schmidt); “Social Mobility, Habitus and Identity Formation in the Turkish-German Second Generation” (in: New Diversities, Vol. 16, No. 1/2014: 89-105; with Christine Lang); Super-diversity: A New Perspective on Integration, Amsterdam: VU University Press 2013 (with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter? Amsterdam University Press 2012 (edited with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); “Belonging” (in: M. Crul/J. Mollenkopf (eds.): The Changing Face of World Cities: Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States, New York: Russell Sage 2012, 206-32; with Mary Waters, Leo Chavez und Louis de Scipio).

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS)

    University, Osnabrück, Germany
    Senior Researcher

  • IMISCOE Standing Committee "Education and Social Inequality"

    Other, Germany
    Coordinator

  • Universität Osnabrück Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien

    Other, Osnabrück, Germany
    Senior Researcher

Research

Mentoring and other educational support for children of immigrants: research, policy relevance, and good practice

Authors Jens Schneider
Year 2023
Book Title Research Handbook on Migration and Education
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1 Book Chapter

Young refugees in education: the particular challenges of school systems in Europe

Authors Claudia Koehler, Jens Schneider
Year 2019
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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2 Journal Article

Suggested Research

On Continuities. Migration and Institutional (Non-)Change

Authors Joanna Jurkiewicz, Jens Schneider
Year 2024
Book Title Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies
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2 Book Chapter

Second‐generation migrants: Europe and the United States

Authors Maurice Crul and, Jens Schneider
Year 2013
Journal Name The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
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3 Journal Article

Beeinflusst der türkische Migrationshintergrund das Behandlungsergebnis?

Authors Mike Mösko, Jens Schneider, Uwe Koch, ...
Year 2008
Journal Name PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie
6 Journal Article

Becoming Successful in the Business and Law Sectors: Institutional Structures and Individual Resources

Authors Elif Keskiner, Christine Lang, Ali Konyali, ...
Year 2022
Book Title New Social Mobility: Second Generation Pioneers in Europe
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8 Book Chapter
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