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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies

Welcome at IMIS!

The Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) is an interdisciplinary, interfaculty research centre based at Osnabrück University. Since the early 1990s, IMIS has focused its academic interest on the various aspects of spatial mobility and intercultural encounters throughout history and in the present day. IMIS's tasks include consolidating and networking interdisciplinary research in the field of migration, and facilitating dialogue between science and practice through its basic research, publications, public events, and the scientific consulting activities of its members.   Read more

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Members of IMIS and the Collaborative Research Centre 'Production of Migration', April 2024

News

IMIS Working Paper 23 published

Christoph Rass & Jonathan Roters: Zum Verhältnis von Produktion und Projektion. Reflexive Perspektiven auf antiziganistische Wissensordnungen

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Colonial past - decolonial future? Shaping the university of the migration society (A/B)

Workshops offered by the FuturMig network partner University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Decolonizing University Göttingen network. This workshop will take place in German.

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Renowned Canadian Humboldt Award winner arrives

Dr. Oliver Schmidtke, Professor at the University of Victoria and winner of this year's Humboldt Research Award, will be conducting research for twelve months at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) and in the Collaborative Research Centre 1604.

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FuturMig Lecture Series: Lecture series on the futures of migration

The FuturMig Lecture Series starts this winter semester with three inspiring lectures.

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Discussion Forum: Negotiating Migration

New issue of the Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung/Journal of Migration Studies on Jochen Oltmer's concept of Negotiating Migration. Contributions by Jochen Oltmer, Isabella Löhr, Christoph Rass, Naika Foroutan and Boris Nieswand, among others.

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Ukraine - Current developments in migration

In a new FFVT briefing, IMIS member Dr. Franck Düvell summarizes the latest developments regarding the refugee situation in and out of Ukraine.

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Upcoming events

Teaser, Lecture

The Production of Migrant and Anti-Migrant Narratives: A Conjunctural Perspective

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Nina Glick-Schiller (Anthropology, Manchester/New York)

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Teaser, Lecture

Stabilizing Repair: How Institutions Change to Remain the Same

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Kevin Durrheim (Social Psychology, Johannesburg)

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Teaser, Lecture

A Moral Geography Approach to Human Migration

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Dr. Camille Schmoll (Geography, EHESS Paris)

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Teaser, Lecture

Research on Racism? Exploring the Development of an Academic Practice between Empirical Research, Theory and Politics

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril (Educational Science, Bielefeld)

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