PhD Programme ›Boundary Formations in Migration Societies‹
Duration: 10/2016 to 09/2020
Researchers involved at IMIS: Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer, Prof. Dr. Jannis Panagiotidis, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott, Prof. Dr. Lisa Rosen, Prof. Dr. Helen Schwenken
Doctoral researchers/scholarship holders at IMIS: Malte Borgmann, Maria Consuelo Flores Rojas, Karl Heyer, Simon Sperling
Project partners: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, University of Oldenburg (CMC), Osnabrück University (IMIS)
The doctoral programme "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen" is a cross-university, cultural studies-oriented program in which doctoral candidates find excellent conditions for writing their dissertations. It is based on the integration of already established and nationally and internationally visible research and institutions in the field of migration and border research at the Oldenburg, Göttingen and Osnabrück locations involved. It combines the cultural studies-oriented migration research perspectives gathered at the Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC) at the University of Oldenburg with the main areas of work of the Laboratory for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research at the University of Göttingen, which contributes expertise in border studies in the narrower sense to the doctoral program, and the interdisciplinary focus on migration and integration processes of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University.
The programme offers a framework for doctoral projects that deal with the connection between situated practices of actors, institutions and structures in the production of border formations and the constitution of orders of belonging in historical and contemporary migration society constellations. Through a differentiated description and theorization, the programme analyses these complex, but often unquestioned contexts and thus also contributes to the development and reflection of methods in migration research. To this end, the program integrates already established and nationally and internationally visible research and institutions in the field of migration and border research at the Oldenburg, Göttingen and Osnabrück locations, creating an ideal environment for working on interdisciplinary doctoral projects and thus making a significant contribution to strengthening and further developing a regionally, nationally and internationally significant research focus on migration in Lower Saxony.