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Ein paar offene Bücher an einem Schreibtisch, an dem eine Person arbeitet.
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Ein Mann in der Bibliothek Alte Münze zieht ein Buch aus einem Bücherregal.
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Drei junge Personen sitzen zusammen und schauen fröhlich in ein Buch
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IMIS | Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien

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News

Neu: IMIS Working Paper zu Perspektiven von Menschen mit Rassismuserfahrungen auf den NSU-Komplex

Lara Çelikel untersucht, welche Bedeutung der NSU-Komplex für Menschen mit Rassismuserfahrungen hat, wie er auf sie persönlich und im Verhältnis zu Staat und Gesellschaft wirkt, und wie sie ihn darin verorten.

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IMIS/SFB 1604 at the IMISCOE Annual Conference on Decentering Migration Studies

Our team presents papers and offers panels & workshops on a large variety of topics such as decentering spatial perspectives on migration studies, reflexivity, knowledge gaps regarding (forced) migration in the Global East, and decentering the far right.

 Conference programme (Paris, 1-4 July 2025)
Three women smile in front of the camera.
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Racism from the perspective of Social Education

She researches racism-sensitive educational processes from the perspective of Social Education: on June 18, educational scientist Prof. Dr. Lisa Janotta gave her inaugural lecture.

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Events

Teaser, Lecture

›The figure of the migrant‹

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Thomas Nail (online talk)

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Teaser, Lecture

›Society of minorities. Living in superdiversity‹

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

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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