IMIS - Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien

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

Gruppenfoto, IMIS+SFB 1604
Members of IMIS and the Collaborative Research Centre 'Production of Migration', April 2024

News

You can see red and blue table football figures
© Jens Raddatz

Racial stereotypes influence perceived suitability for playing positions in soccer

A new study by researchers from Osnabrück University and the University of Wuppertal shows that racist stereotypes influence the positions in which soccer players are deployed.

Podium und ein Teil des Publikums während der Diskussion
© Theater Osnabrück

Kulturproduktion in der Migrationsgesellschaft - Aktuelle und zukünftige Herausforderungen

Buchvorstellung, Vortrag und Podiumsdiskussion zu den Ergebnissen des Forschungsprojekts KultMIX im Dialog mit der kulturellen & kulturpolitischen Praxis am 6. Mai 2025 im Theater Osnabrück

Various colorful steals of the traveling exhibition "#ChallengingDemocracy - From Helmut Schmidt to today"
© BKHS/Michael Zapf

The We in the migration society

On Wednesday, May 14, at 7 p.m., Osnabrück University and the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung (BKHS) are hosting the discussion event "Challenge accepted: The We in the Migration Society" at the Westerberg Departmental Library.


 

Events

Teaser, Lecture

›The figure of the migrant‹

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

Teaser, Lecture

›Society of minorities. Living in superdiversity‹

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