Oliver Winkler, PhD, is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Germany. He is head of the research group “Educational Integration of Refugee Children and Youth in Germany (EDIREG)” (funded by the Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth). He is chairmen of the research section “Sociology of Education” of the German Sociological Association. His work focuses on educational inequality and policy, migration and integration, sociology of the life course, and labour market inequalities.Melanie Olczyk, PhD, is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Germany. She has been a member of the junior research group “Educational Integration of Refugee Children and Youth in Germany (EDIREG)” since 2021. Her research focuses on the sociology of education, particularly educational inequalities in the context of migration, as well as social and gender inequalities. She examines the role of formal and institutional conditions of learning and socialisation, also drawing on cross-national comparisons.

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