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: Publication

›A psychology of racism within the European Context‹ (Topical Issue)

Becker, J., Essien, I., Halabi, S., Scholaske, L., & Veit, S. (2025). Acknowledging the elephant in the room: A psychology of racism within the European Context. Zeitschrift für Psychologie233, 147-154.

Das Bild zeigt eine Hand, die ein schwarzes Smartphone hält. Vor der Hand und dem Smartphone steht eine kleine, traditionelle russische Matroschka-Puppe. Die Matroschka ist bunt bemalt und hat rote Backen. Der Hintergrund ist ein weißer Tisch oder eine weiße Oberfläche. Die Person, die die Hand hält, trägt einen dunklen Rock und hat rot lackierte Fingernägel und einen Ring am Finger.
© Annika Heyen

DOMiD-Workshop mit Studierenden der Geschichtswissenschaft und des IMIB

Testworkshop des SFB 1604-Transferprojekts am 27.6.2025 beim DOMiD in Köln

Teaser: Press & Media

10 Jahre »Wir schaffen das.«

Aktuelle Medienbeiträge und Interviews von und mit Jochen Oltmer 

Teaser: Publication

›Producing Integration‹

Ramírez, Catherine S., and Christoph Rass. 2025. Producing Integration: The Translation of Non/Belonging in Germany and the United States. History and Theory.

Teaser: Publication

›Migration, Mobility, and Being in Translation‹

Schneck, Peter, and Julie M. Weise. 2025. Migration, Mobility, and Being in Translation. History and Theory.

Teaser: Publication

›Understanding the Many Pasts and Presents of European Labor Mobilities‹

Löhr, Isabella. 2025. A Multi-Fractured Governance: Understanding the Many Pasts and Presents of European Labor Mobilities. Historical Social Research 50: 241258.

Events

06.-07. Oct

The Sociologies of MCA

Joint Workshop of Sociology/Goethe University Frankfurt, Communication Studies/University Duisburg-Essen and SFB 1604

08. Oct

Decolonising the figure of the ‘migrant’: non-binary categorisations and intra-Asian mobilities

Workshop with Laavanya Kathiravelu (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo)

09.-10. Oct

PhD and PostDoc Colloquium in Forced Migration and Refugee Research

SFB 1604 and FFVT host a two-day colloquium in the field of forced migration and refugee research.

09. Oct

Forced (im)mobilities under the conditions of violence: observations and reflections on current pathways of research

Keynote of the SFB 1604/FFVT PhD and PostDoc Colloquium in Forced Migration and Refugee Research by Dr. Benjamin Etzold (bicc, Bonn)

11. Oct

Podiumsdiskussion 40 Jahre Einwanderungsland Deutschland im (unabhängigen) Film

Veranstaltung im Rahmen des FilmFest Osnabrück 

14. Oct

›Reflexive Diversity Research‹

 IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Andrea Bührmann

15. Oct

ReflexLab Workshop with Andrea Bührmann

11. Nov

›The Figure of the Migrant‹

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Thomas Nail (online)

02. Dec

›Society of Minorities. Living in Superdiversity‹

 IMIS/SFB Lecture with Prof. Dr. Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie

16. Dec

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Helge Schwiertz

  

27. Jan

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Christina Boswell

  

10. Feb

IMIS/SFB Lecture with Fabrice Langrognet