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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

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Out now: Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies

This open access book (eds. Janine Dahinden & Andreas Pott) brings together cutting-edge work on reflexive approaches within migration studies and emphasizes the boundedness and political character of knowledge production.

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Call for Participation: International PhD Spring School ›Production of Migration‹

The Spring School in April 2026 provides a space for PhD researchers to engage critically with the concept of migration – examining how it is produced through cultural, political, social, and historical processes, including the role of research itself.

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IMIS/SFB Lectures, winter semester 2025/26

We are looking forward to discussing the production of migration and various approaches to reflexive migration research with inspiring guests: Andrea Bührmann, Thomas Nail, Maurice Crul/Frans Lelie, Helge Schwiertz, Christina Boswell & Fabrice Langrognet.

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Upcoming events

›Future-making under precarious conditions. Living as a refugee in Turkish satellite cities‹

Lecture & Discussion with Dr. Mert Pekşen (IMIS, Osnabrück) on 18 November, 16h15

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›Society of Minorities. Living in Superdiversity‹

 IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Maurice Crul & Frans Lelie

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›Figures of Migration and the Production of Society‹

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Dr. Helge Schwiertz

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