Thomas Kemper

Thomas Kemper is a researcher at the Chair of Sociology of Migration and Education within the Department of Social Sciences at Technical University Dortmund. His work focuses on educational disparities, migration, and statistical indicators in school systems. He has held academic positions at Osnabrück University (2019-2024) and the Wuppertal Institute (2015-2019), with a PhD in Educational Sciences from 2015.

• Research Interests: Educational sociology, migration studies, inclusive education, social statistics, and policy analysis.
• Key Projects: Regional educational disparities in migration contexts, operationalization of refugee migration in datasets, statistical indicators on educational inequality.

Kemper's publications emphasize secondary data analysis from official school statistics, particularly in Germany. His recent work explores the evolving classification of migration and language in educational datasets, with a focus on structural inequalities and institutional discrimination.

Collaborations include contributions to policy reports (e.g., NRW inclusion evaluations) and peer-reviewed journals such as Die Deutsche Schule and Zeitschrift für Heilpädagogik. He analyzes how federal states' policies shape educational opportunities for migrant and refugee children.