*Correspondence to Author: Dipl.-Geogr. Philipp Aufenvenne 1Osnabrück University, Institute for Geography, Seminarstraße 19ab 49074 Osnabrück - Germany How to cite this article: Philipp Aufenvenne,Miriam Kuck- uck, Nina Leimbrink, Max Po- chadt, Malte Steinbrink. Integration through Peers – A Study on the Integration of Migrant Children in Pupil Networks in four German Secondary Schools . American Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, 2018,3:19. eSciPub LLC, Houston, TX USA. Website: http://escipub.com/ Philipp Aufenvenne et al., AJERR, 2018; 3:19 American Journal of Educational Research and Reviews (ISSN:2474-9265) Research Article AJERR 2018,3:19 Integration through Peers – A Study on the Integration of Migrant Children in Pupil Networks in four German Secondary Schools This paper deals with the integration of migrant children in infor- mal communication networks in four diffenrent schools in Ger- many. The basic assumption is that these networks can serve as an indicator for the networking and embedding that take place within the class community and therefore can be used to inves- tigate the integration of pupils with a migrant background. The initial results of our network analytical study reveal that the pu- pils with a migrant background are well integrated into the class networks. The study discloses that the migrant background does not serve as a conclusive characteristic of the pattern of class networks. The pupils are more or less networked with each other regardless of their migrant background, though it did emerge that children and adolescents born abroad, in particular, are far more likely to have outgoing relationships that remain unreciprocated. Keywords: network analysis, social integration, school research, peer groups Acknowledgement: We acknowledge support by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Open Access Publishing Fund of Osnabrück Univer- sity. 1 Dipl.-Geogr. Philipp Aufenvenne, 2 Jun. Prof. Dr. Miriam Kuckuck, 1 MA Nina Leimbrink, 1 BA Max Pochadt, 1 Prof. Dr. Malte Steinbrink 1 Osnabrück University, Institute for Geography, Seminarstraße 19ab 49074 Osnabrück - Germany 2 Bergische Universität Wuppertal, School of Social and Human Sciences, Institute for Geographie Gaußstraße 20 42119 Wuppertal - Germany ABSTRACT http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0001