Benjamin Schulz, M.A., is Research Assistant at the University of Mannheim. He was born in Salzwedel, Germany, in 1982 and studied sociology, philosophy and logic at the Universität Leipzig (Germany) and at the University of Karlstad (Sweden). He collaborated in the so-called Polish Migration Project, funded by the German Research Foundation (2004-2008). Since 2007 Benjamin Schulz has been working at the Chair of Sociology and Research Methods at the Universität Leipzig. He focuses on migration and integration issues. In 2005 he received the Wolfgang-Natonek-Award from the Universität Leipzig for outstanding achievements in his studies and for his special commitment to Universität Leipzig. Within NEPS he contributes to pillar 4 “Education acquisition with migration background across the life span”. As a member of the research team led by professor Frank Kalter, he is concerned with issues of “Ethnic resources: social networks and cultural orientations”.