Research projects A-Z: IMIS | Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien

Current IMIS projects

DeZIM research networking

Andreas Pott / Marcel Berlinghoff

Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT)

Christine Lang / Jochen Oltmer / Andreas Pott / Franck Düvell

Social Spaces of Migration (GeRäuMig)

Andreas Pott / Mert Pekşen

INCLUSIVITY: Inclusivity Norms to Counter Polarization in European Societies

Maarten van Zalk

Link4Skills

Helen Schwenken / Johanna Ullmann

Mass data-based long-term models of migration-induced growing diversity in an urban context: Foreigner registration files as cultural assets and the basis for reflexive migration research

Christoph Rass / Andreas Pott

Measuring Irregular Migration and related policies (MIrreM)

Franck Düvell

Research Group ›The Production of Knowledge on Migration‹

Helen Schwenken / Thomas Groß / Jochen Oltmer / Andreas Pott / Christoph Rass / Maurice Stierl

Internationale Flüchtlingspolitik und die Aushandlung von Schutz, Fürsorge und Teilhabe nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg am Beispiel des "Altenheims" für DPs und Flüchtlinge in Varel

Sebastian Huhn

Norms, Administration, and Refugee Agency: Negotiating the Regime

Christoph Rass / Frank Wolff

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

SOLICITY: Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Global Perspective

Harald Bauder (project director), Lead at IMIS: Helen Schwenken / Andreas Pott

Collaborative Research Centre ›Production of Migration‹ (SFB 1604)

Andreas Pott (Spokesperson) / Helen Schwenken (Dep. Spokesperson)

The Holocaust Migration Regime: From Past to Present

Sebastian Musch

TRANSMIT 3 - Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration

Helen Schwenken

Research cluster ›Futures of migration‹ (FuturMig)

Helen Schwenken / Jochen Oltmer / Andreas Pott / Christoph Rass

The Production of the ›Others‹: (De-)Thematizing Migration-Related Difference (A1)

Julia Becker

The Production of the Discriminated in Antiracist Movements (A2)

Aladin El-Mafaalani

»You are Guest Worker Children!« Science, School and the Production of Figures of Migration (A3)

Christoph Rass / Lale Yildirim

Fragmented Worlds of Work in the (Post-)Pandemic: The Production of Inequality through Figures of Migrant Workers (A4)

Hajo Holst

›Refugees‹ and Others: The Production of Refugee-Related Figures since the 1970s (A5)

Isabella Löhr / Jochen Oltmer

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

Mosques and the Production of Belonging (B4)

Rauf Ceylan

The Multilingual Hospital. The Production of Migration through Language as Communicative and Social Infrastructure (B5)

Christine Dimroth

The Production of Urban Spaces of Migration by Local Administrations and Science (C1)

Jochen Oltmer / Andreas Pott

›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

The Production of Spaces of Migrant Disappearance (C4)

Maurice Stierl

The Production of Climate Flight as an Occasion for Theorisation (C5)

Andreas Pott / Thomas Scheffer

Integrated Research Training Group

Christine Lang / Helen Schwenken

Transfer Project: Reflexive Migration Research in the Museum. Potentials and Perspectives of Virtual Realities

Julia Becker / Aladin El-Mafaalani / Christoph Rass / Lale Yildirim

Completed research projects

The list is in progress. It is not complete.

Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer

Neighborhoods of Arrival. Negotiations over Migration and Urban Space in Hamburg in the 20th Century

Exile in the Federal Republic of Germany: Conditions and challenges for artists

Analysis of the transition from school to work in Lower Saxony

Education and career of immigrant children as scholarship holders of the HERTIE Foundation (START program)

Coping with Exclusion. Chinese Migrant Networks in the Americas and across the Pacific in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Research training group ›The Production of Migration‹

DFG Research Training Group ›Migration in Modern Europe‹

Hermann Helfgott - Zvi Asaria. A transnational rabbi's life in the age of extremes

Shaping municipal diversity

Configurations of Islam and Muslims in Germany on a local level

KoopLab: Participation through cooperative open space development in arrival quarters

Migrants as a target group for volunteer work in civil protection and disaster control

Coordination of refugee activities at Osnabrück University

Cultural Production in the Migration Society (KultMIX)

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

The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES)

Renegotiation of local orders: Migration-induced diversity, intergroup relations, conflicts and integration dynamics in the district

QSInova model project: Qualification-oriented training for semi-skilled and unskilled people with a migration background

PhD Programme ›Boundary Formations in Migration Societies‹

Maritime Rescue in the Mediterranean Sea

Spaces of the Migration Society (RäuMig)

TRANSMIT - Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration (I & II)

Junior Professorship ›Migration and Integration of Russian-Germans‹

Women with a migration background in civil society engagement. Inclusion and participation work with refugees (FemPart)

Research Network on Discrimination and Racism (FoDiRa)

Welcome culture and democracy in Germany. Refugee policy initiatives as places of active citizenship, collective conflict negotiation and democratic learning

From Refugee Support to Escape Aid - Refugee Protection as a Conflicting Issue in the German Migration Regime and the Role of Civil Society Initiatives