Research programme & projects

Migration movements and their consequences are to be understood as processes of interaction and as transnational or multilocal phenomena that arise in global society at large under conditions of diverse political-legal and socio-institutional interventions and attempts at control. Against this background, IMIS focuses its current and future research on the migration process as a whole as well as its initial conditions, production, manifestations and manifold consequences. IMIS also reflects on these processes and the role of migration research itself. Therefore, the research interests and projects at IMIS are currently concentrated in four fields, which are defined below:

 Migration regimes

 Forced migration: Conditions, forms, and consequences

 Migration societies

 Production of knowledge

The  Collaborative Research Centre ‘Production of Migration’ (SFB 1604), launched in 2024, builds on this research programme. Its fifteen sub-projects and theoretical-conceptual work bring together the four research fields.

 

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Ongoing projects

 DeZIM research networking
 Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT)
 Social Spaces of Migration (GeRäuMig)
 INCLUSIVITY: Inclusivity Norms to Counter Polarization in European Societies
 Link4Skills
 Mass data-based long-term models of migration-induced growing diversity in an urban context: Foreigner registration files as cultural assets and the basis for reflexive migration research
 Measuring Irregular Migration and related policies (MIrreM)
 Research Group ›The Production of Knowledge on Migration‹
 Negotiating Resettlement. Negotiations, processes and long-term development of violence-induced migration after World War II
 Norms, Regulation and Refugee Agency: Negotiating the Regime
 Neighborhoods of Arrival. Negotiations over Migration and Urban Space in Hamburg in the 20th Century
 Processes of violence-induced mobility. "Displaced persons" between repatriation, resettlement and integration in Lower Saxony municipalities after the Second World War
 SOLICITY: Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Global Perspective
 The Holocaust Migration Regime: From Past to Present
 TRANSMIT 3 - Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration

Collaborative Research Centre ›Production of Migration‹ (SFB 1604):

  A1 | The Production of the ›Others‹: (De-)Thematizing Migration-Related Difference

  A2 | The Production of the Discriminated in Antiracist Movements

  A3 | »You are Guest Worker Children!« Science, School and the Production of Figures of Migration

  A4 | Fragmented Worlds of Work in the (Post-)Pandemic: The Production of Inequality through Figures of Migrant Workers

  A5 | ›Refugees‹ and Others: The Production of Refugee-Related Figures since the 1970s

  B1 | The Production of (Im-)Mobility: The Visa as Border Infrastructure

  B2 | The Production of Mobility Options: Migration and Border Management in the Framework of the Eastern Partnership of the European Union

  B3 | The Production of Gender-Differentiating Migration Policies

  B4 | Mosques and the Production of Belonging

  B5 | The Multilingual Hospital. The Production of Migration through Language as Communicative and Social Infrastructure

  C1 | The Production of Urban Spaces of Migration by Local Administrations and Science

  C2 | ›Unmaking Migrants?‹ The Production of the EU’s Internal and External Borders in a Historical Postcolonial Perspective

  C3 | The Production of Spaces of Skilled Migration: Recruitment and Mobility of Physicians

  C4 | The Production of Spaces of Migrant Disappearance

  C5 | The Production of Climate Flight as an Occasion for Theorisation

  Transfer Project: Reflexive Migration Research in the Museum. Potentials and Perspectives of Virtual Realities

  Integrated Research Training Group

  Reflexivity Lab