Migration Regimes: IMIS | Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien

The individual and collective actions of (potential) migrants are produced in the past and present under various conditions of control—steering, categorization and regulatory undertakings—in the development and partial implementation of which various actors are involved. The contingent characteristics, contexts and developments of these attempted influences and their interactions with the actions and decisions of migrants are the subject of this research area, defined as 'migration regimes.' Researchers in this area seek to address questions such as: Who observes, influences and produces which migrations? Why, how and with what consequences is this being done?

Ongoing research projects:

Processes of violence-induced mobility. "Displaced persons" between repatriation, resettlement and integration in Lower Saxony municipalities after the Second World War

Christoph Rass / Sebastian Huhn

The Holocaust Migration Regime: From Past to Present

Sebastian Musch

Negotiating Resettlement. Negotiations, processes and long-term development of violence-induced migration after World War II

Sebastian Huhn

TRANSMIT 3 - Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration

Helen Schwenken

Link4Skills

Helen Schwenken / Johanna Ullmann

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

Thomas Groß

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

Ulrich Schneckener

The Production of Gender-Differentiating Migration Policies (B3)

Helen Schwenken

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

Christiane Reinecke

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

Christine Lang

Completed research projects:

Hermann Helfgott - Zvi Asaria. Ein transnationales Rabbinerleben im Zeitalter der Extreme, 2019-2021 (Christoph Rass / Frank Wolff / Sebastian Musch)
Juniorprofessur ›Migration und Integration der Russlanddeutschen‹, 2014-2022
Willkommenskultur und Demokratie in Deutschland, 2017-2021 (Helen Schwenken u.a.)
Konfigurierungen von ›Islam‹ und ›Muslimen‹ auf lokaler Ebene in Deutschland, 2016 -2020 (Georg Glasze / Andreas Pott)
ExiTT - Transit - Transformation, 2018-2019 (Andreas Pott / Helen Schwenken)
Interessenvertretung – Kooperation – Konflikt. Zum Verhältnis von Migrantenorganisationen und Gewerkschaften in Hamburg, Offenbach und Stuttgart (1970/80er Jahre), 2017-2019 (Helen Schwenken / Sabine Hess)
Die Mauergesellschaft: Kalter Krieg, Menschenrechte und die deutsch-deutsche Migration 1961-1989, 2013-2018 (Frank Wolff)
Study Group: Migration Regimes, 2013-2017 (Andreas Pott / Christoph Rass / Frank Wolff)
Handbuch Staat und Migration, 2009-2015 (Jochen Oltmer)
Migration und die NS-›Volksgemeinschaft‹: Das Reich, Salzgitter und der Oberharz, 2008-2015 (Jochen Oltmer / Lars Amenda)
Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, 2007-2014 (Klaus J. Bade / Jochen Oltmer)
INTEC. Integration and Naturalisation Tests, The New Way to European Citizenship, 2010 (Anne Walter / Marina Seveker)
Integrationsplan für die Stadt Soest, 2009 (Michael Bommes / Simon Fellmer)
Integrationsplan für die Stadt Ettlingen, 2008 (Michael Bommes / Andreas Pott)
Menschen ohne Papiere in Köln, 2007 (Michael Bommes / Maren Wilmes)
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Migration im modernen Europa", 1995-2005
Migration und Politik in der Weimarer Republik, 2001-2005 (Jochen Oltmer)
PEMINT. The Political Economy of Migration in an Integrating Europe, 2002-2004 (Michael Bommes / Holger Kolb / Kirsten Hoesch / Uwe Hunger)
Fundamental Rights Situation of Irregular Migrants in the European Union (FRIM), (Maren Wilmes)
Menschenrechte / Grundrechtsvergleichung / Handbuch Völkerrechtspraxis, (Albrecht Weber)
Migration und kulturelle Differenz in Gemeinden, 2000-2002 (Klaus J. Bade / Michael Bommes / Ute Koch / Evangelos Karagiannis)
Migration und Recht, (Albrecht Weber)