Julian Seuring

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Office: Wilhelmsplatz 3, Room: AS20/01.08, 96047 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail:julian.seuring(at)lifbi.de
Phone: +49(0)951/863-3639
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Pillar 2: Educational and Social Inequality Across the Entire Life Course

Field: Sociology

Research Interests: Social and ethnic inequality with a special focus on education, language acquisition, survey methodology, quantitative methods
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// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Language Proficiency of Immigrant Youth in the German Educational System

The cumulative dissertation project investigates the causes of immigrant students' acquisition of German language proficiency. I address two overarching research questions: First, I examine how opportunities for minority language use outside the family (e.g., with classmates) relate to immigrant students' proficiency in the language of instruction. Second, I analyze the validity of students' self-reported language proficiency - a measure which is commonly used in integration research to indicate the respondents' actual language proficiency.

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// ACADEMIC STUDIES

2006 - 2012
Diploma (Dipl.-Soz.) in Sociology, University of Bamberg and University of Basel

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// PUBLICATIONS

Edele, A., Seuring, J., Schotte, K., Kristen, C., & Stanat, P. (2023). Is the first language a resource, an obstacle, or irrelevant for language minority students’ education? In S. Weinert, G. J. Blossfeld, & H.-P. Blossfeld (Eds.), Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories. Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). (Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment) (1st ed., pp. 349-367). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27007-9_16

Esser, H., & Seuring, J. (2023). Was ist Dein Replicandum?: Eine Antwort auf die Replik von Heisig und Matthewes (2022) zum Beitrag von Esser und Seuring (2020) über „Kognitive Homogenisierung, schulische Leistungen und soziale Bildungsungleichheit“. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 52(3), 338-343. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2023-2021

Seuring, J., Degen, D., Rüdel, J., Ries, F., Diehl, C., Kristen, C., & Koenig, M. (2023). The ENTRA survey: Recent Immigration Processes and Early Integration Trajectories in Germany: Methodological Report. GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. https://nbn- resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-85327-7

Will, G., Seuring, J., & von Maurice, J. (2023). Geflüchtete Kinder in der Grundschule – Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Grundschule, 2023(1), 7-13.

Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Nguyen, H. H. V., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., Alvarez-Benjumea, A., Andersen, H. K., Auer, D., Azevedo, F., Bahnsen, O., Balzer, D., Bauer, G., Bauer, P. C., Baumann, M., Baute, S., Benoit, V., Bernauer, J., Berning, C., . . . Żółtak, T. (2022). Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(44), Article: e2203150119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203150119

Seuring, J., & Will, G. (2022). German language acquisition of refugee children - The role of preschools and language instruction. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, Article 840696. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.840696

Kristen, C., & Seuring, J. (2021). Destination-language acquisition of recently arrived immigrants: Do refugees differ from other immigrants? Journal for Educational Research Online, 13(1), 128-156. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:22068

Esser, H., & Seuring, J. (2020). Kognitive Homogenisierung, schulische Leistungen und soziale Bildungsungleichheit. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 49(5-6), 277-301. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2020-0025

Miyamoto, A., Seuring, J., & Kristen, C. (2020). Immigrant students’ achievements in light of their educational aspirations and academic motivation. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(7), 1348-1370. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1538772

Seuring, J., Rjosk, C., & Stanat, P. (2020). Ethnic classroom composition and minority language use among classmates: Do peers matter for students’ language achievement? European Sociological Review, 36(6), 920-936. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa022

Kristen, C., Seuring, J., & Stanat, P. (2019). Muster und Bedingungen des Erwerbs und Erhalts herkunftssprachlicher Kompetenzen. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 22(1), 143-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-019-00883-3

Olczyk, Seuring, Will and Zinn. 2016. Migranten und ihre Nachkommen im deutschen Bildungssystem: ein aktueller Überblick. In: Diehl, Hunkler and Kristen (Eds.). Ethnische Ungleichheit im Bildungsverlauf. Mechanismen, Befunde, Debatten. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Edele, Seuring, Kristen and Stanat. 2015. Why bother with testing? The validity of immigrants' self-assessment of language proficiency. Social Science Research 52:99-123.

Strobel, B. and Seuring, J. (2016): “Spracherhalt oder Sprachverlagerung. Erstsprachgebrauch und Zweitsprachkompetenzen bei Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund”. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 68(2), 309-339.

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// EXPERIENCE

Professional experience

Since 2021
Research assistant in the project "Bildungswege von geflüchteten Kindern und Jugendlichen [educational trajectories of refugee children and adolescents" at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg, Germany

2017 - 2021
Research assistant and coordinator of the project "Early integration trajectories" (ENTRA), University of Bamberg

2015 - 2017
Research fellow for the project “Immigrants’ first and second language proficiency and social integration” within the DFG Priority Programme 1646 “Education as a Lifelong Process”, University of Bamberg

2013
Research fellow for the NORFACE project "Causes and consequences of early socio-cultural integration processes among new immigrants in Europe", University of Bamberg.

2012 - 2015
Doctoral student and research fellow at the Chair of Sociology and the Analysis of Social Structures,
University of Bamberg

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