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. 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.   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).   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 SFB 1604 "Production of Migration", Osnabrück University/IMIS.   Further information

Dr. Steffen Pötzschke

Postdoctoral Researcher at the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim, Department Survey Design and Methodology. Migration and integration research, transnationalism research, methods of migration research, refugee research.   Further information

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.   Further information

Dr. Hamza Safouane

Sociology: critical migration research, refugee and forced migration studies, discourse analysis, ethnography, qualitative research methodology, oral history.   Further information

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. Klaus Schriewer

Universidad de Murcia/Spain: European ethnology/ethnology; European and regional research, biography and narrative research, migration research, history of theory and cultural theory, relationship between humans and nature (especially nature and landscape awareness), economy and work.   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.   Further information

Bediz Yilmaz-Bayraktar, Ph.D.

Urban Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies.   Further information