The article summarizes results of the report on 'Education and vocational training of Italians in Germany' drafted 2003 for the International Training Center of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in co-operation with the Centro Studi Emigrazione Roma (CSER). A description of the development and actual trends of educational attainment of Italian students in Germany is given on the basis of official statistics and survey data. Compared with Germans and other immigrant nationalities Italians in general obtain lower school degrees. The results on Italians descending from German-Italian families give new insights in the integration process of second generation immigrants. Different approaches for the explanation of education of migrants are discussed. An integrated model including structural conditions, the education system, socio-economic factors, cultural or ethnic aspects and migration biographies with a special focus on the intergenerational transmission of family social capital is proposed.

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