Corresponding members of IMIS
Dr. Isabell Diekmann
University of Dortmund, Sociology: Migration and social inequality, prejudice/group-related misanthropy, discrimination, (anti-Muslim) racism, anti-racism. Member of the SFB 1604 "Production of Migration", Osnabrück University/IMIS. Further information
Prof. Dr. Christine Dimroth
University of Münster, Linguistics: Language acquisition and multilingualism; information structure and discourse Organisation; scope particles and polarity; comparative linguistics and Thinking for Speaking. Principal Investigator, project B5 in the SFB 1604 "Production of Migration", IMIS/Osnabrück University. read more
Prof. Dr. Aladin El-Mafaalani
University of Dortmund, Sociology of Migration and Education: Superdiversity in institutions of childhood and youth; Regional educational disparities in the context of migration; Racism and discrimination research; Educational success and educational inequality. Principal Investigator in the Project A2 and Transfer Project of the SFB 1604 "Production of Migration", IMIS/Osnabrück University. Further information
Kornelius Ens
Extraordinary Professor (Klaipėda, Lithuania) and Director of the Museum of Russian-German Cultural History. Historical migration research: migration and museum mediation; memory cultures and trauma education in the context of migration; historical migration research with a focus on Russian-Germans. Further information
Prof. Dr. Martin Geiger
Carleton University, Ottawa/Canada: Geographical and interdisciplinary migration research, social geography (political geography and population geography), transformation and governance research, regional focus: Southern/Eastern Europe and North America. Further information
Dr. Iryna Lapshyna
Ukranian Catholic University, Lviv/Ukraine, International Eonomics: labor migration, irregular migration, diaspora, development, Ukraine. Further information
Prof. Dr. Isabella Löhr
Professor of International History of the 20th Century at the FU Berlin and Head of the Department "Globalizations in a Divided World" at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF), Principal Investigator in the A5 project of the SFB 1604 "Production of Migration", IMIS/Osnabrück University. Further information
Prof. Panikos Panayi
Ph.D., Professor of European History, De Montfort University of Leicester/UK: Historical Migration Studies, Minorities, Racism and Violence. Further information
Dr. Nantke Pecht
University of Münster, Institute of German Studies: Migration-related multilingualism, contact linguistics, language variation & language change, attitude research, Ruhr German. PostDoc in the Project B5 of the SFB 1604 "Production of Migration", Osnabrück University/IMIS. Further information
PD Dr. Hans-Christian Petersen
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (BKGE) in Oldenburg: Russlanddeutsche Geschichte und post(ost)migrantische Gesellschaft, Antiosteuropäischer und antislawischer Rassismus, Karl Stumpp und die Datafizierung russlanddeutscher Migrationen, Stadtgeschichte des östlichen Europa und sozialer Raum, Geschichte der deutschen „Ostforschung". Weitere Informationen
Prof. Dr. Christiane Reinecke
Europa-Institut Flensburg, Department of History. Modern and Contemporary History: Transnational migration, knowledge and urban history of the 19th to 21st centuries with a focus on (post)colonial British, French and German-German history. History of migration and illegality in the context of globalization and decolonization. History of modern migration and border regimes. History of the production and circulation of knowledge about the social, about race, class, sex and gender. History of urban inequalities and peripheries. Theories and methods of transnational research, actor-network theory, postcolonial theory and spatial research. Principal Investigator, C2 project of the SFB 1604 "Production of Migration", IMIS/Osnabrück University. Further information
Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheffer
Sociology: Sociology of the state, sociology of law, migration research, sociology of climate change, practice and discourse research, science and technology studies, sociology of sociology. Principal Investigator, project C5 in the SFB 1604 "Production of Migration", IMIS/Osnabrück University. Read more
Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, comparative cultural and social anthropology: transformation of rural and urban Turkey, Turkish migration to Europe, organization of diversity in European societies, European Islam. Further information
Prof. Dr. Antonie Schmiz
FU Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Department of Globalization, Transformation, Gender. Further information
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schroeder
University of Potsdam, Linguistics: language contact, contrastive linguistics, language typology, multilingualism in schools. Further information
Dr. Helge Schwiertz
University of Hamburg, Political Science: Migration and border regimes, (pro-)migrant organizing, social movements, citizenship studies, democracy and political theory. Further information
Prof. em. Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt
University of Münster, political science: comparative political research, comparative migration and integration research, migration and European integration, self-help and social capital, politics and history of the Federal Republic of Germany, comparative local politics. Further information
Prof. Dr. Manuela Westphal
University of Kassel, Education Science: Intercultural parenting and family work; adolescence, gender and migration; intercultural education research; intercultural and gender-equitable education and counselling concepts; socialization and heterogeneity. Further information
Prof. Dr. Lale Yildirim
Kiel University, Department of History, Didactics of History: Historical Thinking/Learning in Diversity, Empirical Historical-Cultural Research, Historical Migration Research, Participatory Digital Public History, Historical-Cultural Agency and Participation in the Migration Society, Historical Identity. Principal Investigator in the A3 project and the Transfer Project of the SFB1604 "Production of Migration", IMIS/Osnabrück University. Further information