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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Upcoming events
PhD and Postdoc Colloquium in Forced Migration and Refugee Research
15-16 October 2026 – Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrück University (on site), organised by SFB 1604 and the BMBF-funded project 'Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer' (FFVT)
Agency of Female Migrants within the Global South-South Migration Corridor: A Feminist Reflection from Case Study of Nepal
IMIS/SFB Lecture with Dr. Meena Poudel (Sociology, Katmandu)
ARBEIT. SOLIDARITÄT. DEMOKRATIE. Migration in der Transformationsgesellschaft
24. Jahrestagung der Kooperationsstelle Hochschulen und Gewerkschaften in Osnabrück, in Kooperation mit dem Sonderforschungsbereich „Produktion von Migration“ (SFB 1604)
The Production of Border Violence
IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Charles Heller (Social Anthropology, University of Bern)