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

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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.

IMIS Working Paper 22 erschienen

Christoph Rass: ‘Gastarbeiter’ in the Nazi Press (1933–1945). Formative Years of a Key Term in Migration Politics

FuturMig Lecture Series: Lecture series on the futures of migration

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

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.

Teaser: Publication

Out now: Special Issue ›Reflecting on the Geographies of Migration Research‹

This special issue, edited by Christine Lang and Andreas Pott, contains four peer-reviewed articles on perspectives for systematic research into the geographies of migration research. The issue of "Geographische Zeitschrift" is fully open access.

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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