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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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Lecture by Dr. Mert Pekşen (Osnabrück) on the futures of migration

Over 40 participants followed Dr. Mert Pekşen’s lecture on the lives of refugees in Turkish satellite cities, both on-site and online – offering a powerful look at hope, restrictions, and efforts to shape the future under precarious conditions.

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Out now: Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies

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

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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

Teaser, Lecture

›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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Teaser, Lecture

›Unauthorised Migrants and the Production of Ignorance‹

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Christina Boswell

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Teaser, Lecture

›A Micro Approach to the Forced Medication of Deportees at France’s Air Borders, 1980–1996‹

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Dr. Fabrice Langrognet

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