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.

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Teaser: Publication
C1 C3 C5 Insight ReflexLab

Out now: Special Issue ›Reflecting on the Geographies of Migration Research‹

This special issue, edited by Christine Lang and Andreas Pott, contains four peer-reviewed articles on perspectives for systematic research into the geographies of migration research. The issue of "Geographische Zeitschrift" is fully open access.

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A5 C1 Publication

›Negotiating Migration: An Outlook from the Perspectives of Historical Migration Research‹

Oltmer, Jochen. 2025. Negotiating Migration: An Outlook from the Perspectives of Historical Migration Research. Journal of Migration Studies 5 (1): 13–27.

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B1 Publication

›An analysis of Germany’s labour migration policy‹

Robinson, Jennifer-Louise, and Thomas Groß. 2025. Qualification as a key criterion? An analysis of Germany’s labour migration policy. Comparative Migration Studies 14 (1): 2.

 Open Access
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C4 C5 Publication

›Modern Slavery and Migration‹

Dutta, Nandita, and Maurice Stierl. 2025. Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries. Sociology.

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Out now: Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies

This open access book brings together cutting-edge work on reflexive approaches within migration studies and emphasizes the boundedness and political character of knowledge production (eds. Janine Dahinden & Andreas Pott).

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IMIS/SFB Lectures, winter semester 2025/26

We are looking forward to discussing the production of migration and various approaches to reflexive migration research with inspiring guests: Andrea Bührmann, Thomas Nail, Maurice Crul/Frans Lelie, Helge Schwiertz, Christina Boswell & Fabrice Langrognet.

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›Unauthorised Migrants and the Production of Ignorance‹

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Christina Boswell

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›A Micro Approach to the Forced Medication of Deportees at France’s Air Borders, 1980–1996‹

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Dr. Fabrice Langrognet

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PhD Spring School "Production of Migration"

International and interdisciplinary Spring School at Osnabrück University (14-17 April 2026), organised by the SFB 1604 Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG)

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Mapping (the Production of) Migration

Workshop with Philippe Rekacewicz

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