Production of Knowledge: IMIS | Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien

Societies constantly produce 'migration knowledge.' This IMIS research field is concerned with the practices of producing and circulating knowledge about the spatial movement of people in the past and present, which is investigated at the intersection of science and politics, administration and society. The aim of this area of IMIS research is to develop reflexive perspectives for historical, sociological and cultural research on migration on an interdisciplinary basis.

Ongoing research projects:

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

Christoph Rass / Andreas Pott

Research Group ›The Production of Knowledge on Migration‹

Helen Schwenken / Thomas Groß / Jochen Oltmer / Andreas Pott / Christoph Rass / Maurice Stierl

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

Isabella Löhr / Jochen Oltmer

The Production of Climate Flight as an Occasion for Theorisation (C5)

Andreas Pott / Thomas Scheffer

Completed research projects:

Promotionsprogramm ›Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen‹, 2016-2020
Graduiertenkolleg "Die Produktion von Migration", 2015-2019
Foggy Social Structures in a Knowledged-based Society, (Michael Bommes / Holger Kolb)