SFB 1604 Production of Migration

Welcome to the Collaborative Research Centre ›Production of Migration‹!

The Collaborative Research Centre ›Production of Migration‹ (SFB 1604) conducts theory-based, post-disciplinary and reflexive research on migration. It investigates how migration is practiced, processed and given meaning at different times and in different contexts.

15 research projects are allocated to the three production media: figures, infrastructures and spaces. The SFB also includes an Integrated Research Training Group and the Reflexivity Lab. The Transfer Project applies and tests the perspectives and findings of the Collaborative Research Centre in practice together with a migration museum.

The research centre is hosted by Osnabrück University, partner institutions in the joint project are the University of Münster, the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Europa-Universität Flensburg, TU Dortmund University, Kiel University, and FU Berlin in cooperation with the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Research Potsdam.

News

Teaser: Workshop

Visual experimentation in migration research: participatory methods and documentary practices

ReflexLab Workshop with Dr. Keina Espiñeira (Sociology and Communication Sciences, Universidade da Coruña)

Teaser: Lecture

What if … there had never been settlers? Thinking about coloniality, migration and language

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Ana Deumert (Linguistics, University of Cape Town)

27 May 2025 18:00-19:30

Teaser: Press & Media

›Wider die Verengung des Blicks‹

Die Debatte über Migration polarisiert. Der Sonderforschungsbereich „Produktion von Migration“ der Uni Osnabrück legt Mechanismen der Ausgrenzung offen.

Teaser: Publication

›Grenze‹

Kasparek, Bernd, and Maurice Stierl. 2025. Grenze. In Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe, edited by Inken Bartels, Isabella Löhr, Christiane Reinecke, Philipp Schäfer, Laura Stielike, and Maurice Stierl.

International Conference and Inauguration of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1604

›Production of Migration: Figures, Infrastructures and Spaces‹. Osnabrück University, 23-25 October 2024

Events

27. May

Visual experimentation in migration research: participatory methods and documentary practices

ReflexLab Workshop with Dr. Keina Espiñeira (Sociology and Communication Sciences, Universidade da Coruña)

27. May

What if … there had never been settlers? Thinking about coloniality, migration and language

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Ana Deumert (Linguistics, University of Cape Town)

27 May 2025 18:00-19:30

28. May

South-South migration, including Chinese migration to South Africa

Workshop with Prof. Dr. Ana Deumert & Nkululeko Mabandla (both University of Cape Town)

10. Jun

Between Aspiration and Reality: The Administrative Practice of Implementing the Right to Family Reunification for Refugees

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Dr. Marie Beyrich (Law, University of Regensburg)

10 June 2025 18:00-19:30

24. Jun

Researching Knowledge Production on Migration

IMIS/SFB Lecture with the Research Group ›The Production of Knowledge on Migration‹ (IMIS, Osnabrück University)

24 June 2025 18:00-19:30

15. Jul

Research on Racism? Exploring the Development of an Academic Practice between Empirical Research, Theory and Politics

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril (Educational Science, Bielefeld University)

15 July 2025 18:00-19:30

09.-10. Oct

PhD and PostDoc Colloquium in Forced Migration and Refugee Research

SFB 1604 and FFVT offer a fully-funded two-day colloquium in the field of forced migration and refugee research. It is open to PhD researchers and early career Postdocs based in Germany.