Ongoing research projects

TraMS: Transatlantic Exchange in Migration Studies

Exchange programme with Toronto Metropolitan University

Laufzeit: 08/2025 - 07/2029
Förderung: DAAD ISAP-Programm
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christine Lang

Social Spaces of Migration (GeRäuMig)

DeZIM joint project of IMIS/University of Osnabrück University, IKG/University of Bielefeld, BIM/HU Berlin and InZentIM/University of Duisburg-Essen

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2027
Funding: BMFSFJ

Project management: PD Dr. Anna-Lisa Müller (IKG), Dr. Mert Pekşen (IMIS)

Co-leadership at the participating institutes: Prof. Dr. Andreas Blätte (InZentIM), Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott (IMIS), Prof. Dr. Gökçe Yurdakul (BIM), Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick (IKG)

Project collaborator at IMIS: Emma Luna Brahm

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Collaborative Research Center 'Production of Migration'

SFB 1604

Duration 04/2024 - 12/2027
Funding: DFG
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott
Head of the Reflexivity Laboratory: Dr. Jens Schneider
Scientific coordination: Matthias Land

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Integrated Research Training Group of the SFB 1604

Sub-project of the SFB 1604

Duration: 04/2024 - 12/2027
Funding: DFG
Head: Prof. Dr. Christine Lang, Prof. Dr. Helen Schwenken
Coordination: Johanna Ullmann, Xin Wang

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C1 | The Production of Urban Migration Spaces by Municipalities and Science

Sub-project of the SFB 1604

Duration: 04/2024 - 12/2027
Funding: DFG
Head: Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott
Collaborators: Dr. Sophie Hinger, Dr. David Templin

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C3 | The production of Spaces of Skilled Labor Migration: Recruitment and Mobility of Physicians

Sub-project of the SFB 1604

Duration: 04/2024 - 12/2027
Funding: DFG
Head: Prof. Dr. Christine Lang
Collaborators: Jurica Volarević

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C5 | The Production of Climate Flight as an Occasion for Theorizing

Sub-project of the SFB 1604

Duration: 04/2024 - 12/2027
Funding: DFG
Head: Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott (Osnabrück University), Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheffer (Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.)
Employees: Dr. Nandita Dutta, Aurora A. Sauter

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FFVT: Flight and Refugee Research: Networking and Transfer (2)

Joint project of IMIS, BICC, CHREN

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2029
Funding: BMBF
Head at IMIS: Prof. Dr. Christine Lang, Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott
Collaborators at IMIS: Dr. Franck Düvell

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Reflexivities in Migration Studies

IMISCOE Standing Committee

Duration: since 2020
Funding: IMISCOE
Directors: Prof. Dr. Janine Dahinden, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott
Coordinator: PD Dr. Anna-Lisa Müller

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TRANSMIT: Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration

Joint project of the DeZIM research community

Duration: 2020-2024
Funding: BMFSFJ
Head at IMIS: Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott, Prof. Dr. Helen Schwenken
IMIS employees: Judith Altrogge, Philipp Jung

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EuMIGS - European Master in Migration Studies

European network of institutes in the area of migration studies

Duration: 2022-2025
Funding: EU - Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership
Head: Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott
Coordinators: Dr. Sophie Hinger, Dr. Mert Pekşen

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Ongoing Doctorates

  • Caner Aver: Social and spatial mobility of highly qualified people using the example of academics of Turkish origin in Germany
  • Emma Brahm
  • Francina Guggenberger
  • Karl Heyer: Organized Disorder? Ambiguity and Control in the Italian Regime of Migrants' Arrival and Reception
  • Matthias Land: Maps of Migration: Production of Knowledge and Visibility
  • Max Pochadt: Immigration, urban space, figuration - A data-driven geography of the residential location structures of immigrant foreigners in Osnabrück between 1955 and 1980
  • Jurica Volarević
  • Viktor van Versendaal: Migration und Wandel im Krankenhaus
  • Xin Wang: Migration, Education, and Urban Economic Development: Chinese Migration in Düsseldorf