Migration Regimes

The individual and collective actions of (potential) migrants are produced in the past and present under various conditions of control—steering, categorization and regulatory undertakings—in the development and partial implementation of which various actors are involved. The contingent characteristics, contexts and developments of these attempted influences and their interactions with the actions and decisions of migrants are the subject of this research area, defined as 'migration regimes.' Researchers in this area seek to address questions such as: Who observes, influences and produces which migrations? Why, how and with what consequences is this being done?


Ongoing research projects:

Processes of violence-induced mobility. "Displaced persons" between repatriation, resettlement and integration in Lower Saxony municipalities after the Second World War

Christoph Rass / Sebastian Huhn

The Holocaust Migration Regime: From Past to Present

Sebastian Musch

Negotiating Resettlement. Negotiations, processes and long-term development of violence-induced migration after World War II 

Sebastian Huhn

TRANSMIT 3 - Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration

Helen Schwenken

Link4Skills

Helen Schwenken / Johanna Ullmann

The Production of (Im-)Mobility: The Visa as Border Infrastructure (B1)

Thomas Groß

The Production of Mobility Options: Migration and Border Management in the Framework of the Eastern Partnership of the European Union (B2)

Ulrich Schneckener

The Production of Gender-Differentiating Migration Policies (B3)

Helen Schwenken

›Unmaking Migrants?‹ The Production of the EU’s Internal and External Borders in a Historical Postcolonial Perspective (C2)

Christiane Reinecke

The Production of Spaces of Skilled Migration: Recruitment and Mobility of Physicians (C3)

Christine Lang

Completed research projects: