Publications

The Inventory of Migration Terms

The Inventory of Migration Terms ("Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe”) is a continuously growing online platform that discusses key concepts and terms of current debates on migration, integration and diversity. The various authors of the Inventory analyze how migration-related terms have been produced and came into being and how they are used in different social fields. The Inventory of Migration Terms is a reference work and tool for readers to engage in current discussions on migration in an informed and reflexive way. 

Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura/Stierl, Maurice (eds.) (2022): Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe. Online:  www.migrationsbegriffe.de. doi:  10.25887/idmb.

The Inventory of Migration Terms was awarded the  Open Access Prize 2022 of Osnabrück University.

Asyl im Dialog - Der Podcast der Refugee Law Clinics Deutschland (2022, February 2): “Das Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe”. Online:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/6WEpe1sNdVlfLrEUjOSATG.

Das Interkulturelle Magazin (2022, January 23): “Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe – Ein multimediales Projekt der Uni Osnabrück”. Online:  https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/das-interkulturelle-magazin/inventar-der-migrationsbegriffe-ein-multimediales-projekt-der-uni-osnabrueck/1846968.

Kultur heute (2022, January 21): “Glossar der Universität Osnabrück: Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe”. Online:  https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/inventar-der-migrationsbegriffe-glossar-der-universitaet-osnabrueck-dlf-f0a33203-100.html. 

 www.migrationsbegriffe.de

Edited Volumes

Buchcover "Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration"
© transcript
 Open Access

Special Issues

  • Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura/Bartels, Inken (eds.) (2025): Rethinking the Production of Knowledge on Migration: A Moral Economies Approach. Special Issue. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. doi:  10.1080/1369183X.2025.2461340.

Journal Articles

  • Stierl, Maurice, Laura Stielike, Philipp Schäfer, Inken Bartels, Anna Amelina, Iva Dodevska, Maissam Nimer, and Omololá S. Olarinde-Olomola. 2025. Reflexivity as Critique? A Conversation on the Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies. Journal of Migration Studies: Online First. doi:  10.48439/ZMF.334.
  • Bartels, Inken (2025): The Symbolic Power of Knowledge Practices. The International Organization for Migration’s Anti-Trafficking Politics in North Africa. In: Geopolitics 1–26. doi:  10.1080/14650045.2024.2430991.  
  • Stielike, Laura/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Bartels, Inken (2025): Rethinking the Production of Knowledge on Migration: A Moral Economies Approach. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51 (10): 2505–2528. doi:  10.1080/1369183X.2025.2461340. 
  • Bartels, Inken (2024): The Politics of (Un)Counting International Migration in Senegal and the Gambia. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50 (9): 2207–2226. doi:  10.1080/1369183X.2024.2307770.
  • Reinecke, Christiane/Löhr, Isabella (2024): Beyond the present, the nation, and Europe: Three different uses of history in reflexive migration studies, In: Migration Studies 12 (3). doi:  10.1093/migration/mnae023.
  • Stielike, Laura/Schäfer, Philipp/Stierl, Maurice/Bartels, Inken (2024): The Moral Economies of Reflexive Migration Studies. In: Migration Studies 12 (3). doi:  10.1093/migration/mnae021. 
  • Schäfer, Philipp (2023): Situiertes Wissen, kritische Begegnungen und die Grenzen von Care. Methodologische Herausforderungen der Koproduktion von Wissen über Migration mit der Polizei. In: Kriminologisches Journal 55 (4): 293–308. doi:  10.3262/KJ2304293.

Book Chapters

  • Bartels, Inken (forthcoming 2025): Migration governance and the politics of knowledge production. Unpacking statistical data practices in West Africa. In: Barben, Daniel/Bauer, Anja/Aarden, Erik (eds.): Handbook on Knowledge Politics. Edgar Elgar. 
  • Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (forthcoming 2025): Practicing Double Reflexivity. Producing Knowledge on the Production of Knowledge on Migration. In: Dahinden, Janine/Pott, Andreas (eds.): Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies: Pitfalls and Alternatives. Springer International Publishing.
  • Schäfer, Philipp (2024): ‘Da ist jetzt nur die vage Aussage im Raum’. Informationsveranstaltungen als Orte der Aushandlung von Nicht-Wissen über Migration. In: Lange, Jan/Dietrich, Manuel/Räuchle, Charlotte (eds.): Lokale Wissensregime der Migration. Springer: 251–272. doi:  10.1007/978-3-658-42507-4_10.
  • Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (2023): Umkämpfte Begriffe: Zur Bedeutung ‘reflexiver’ Perspektiven auf Migration und Sprache. In: (eds.): Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar. transcript:  7–29. Online:  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5712-8/umkaempfte-begriffe-der-migration/?number=978-3-8394-5712-2.
  • Bartels, Inken (2023): Rückkehr. In: Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (eds.): Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar. transcript: 299–313. Online:  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5712-8/umkaempfte-begriffe-der-migration/?number=978-3-8394-5712-2.
  • Schäfer, Philipp (2023): Willkommenskultur. In: Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (eds.): Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar. transcript: 329–342. Online:  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5712-8/umkaempfte-begriffe-der-migration/?number=978-3-8394-5712-2.
  • Stielike, Laura (2023): Big Data. In: Berlinghoff, Marcel/Glorius, Birgit/Kleist, J. Olaf/Scharrer, Tabea (eds.): Handbuch Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung. Nomos: 189–194. 
  • Stielike, Laura (2023): Diaspora. In: Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/ Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (eds.): Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar. transcript: 91–105. Online:  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5712-8/umkaempfte-begriffe-der-migration/?number=978-3-8394-5712-2.
  • Stielike, Laura (2022): Producing Migration Knowledge: From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy? In: Ehlers, Sarah/Esselborn, Stefan (eds.): Evidence in Action between Science and Society. Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge. Routledge: 113–138. doi:  10.4324/9781003188612-13. 
  • Stielike, Laura (2022): Politiken der Wissensproduktion: Das Beispiel der Migrationsforschung. In: Weingart, Peter/Schuppert, Gunnar Folke/Römhildt, Roland (eds.): Herrschaft und Wissen. Nomos: 219–240. doi:   10.5771/9783748910602-219.  Available online here.
  • Stielike, Laura (2022): Migration Multiple? Big Data, Knowledge Practices and the Governability of Migration. In: Sandberg, Maria/Rossi, Luca/Galis, Vasilis/Bak Jørgensen, Martin (eds.): Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies. Caring for (Big) Data. Springer: 113–138. doi:  10.1007/978-3-030-81226-3_5. 

Shorter Contributions

Selected Presentations

  • 07/2025: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura/Stierl, Maurice: “Centre the Margins to Decentre the Core. Blind Spots in the Postcolonial Critique of Migration Studies”, Panel “Recentring Migration Studies”, 22nd Annual IMISCOE Conference, Institut Convergences Migrations, Paris-Aubervilliers and online.
  • 07/2025: Bartels, Inken: “The Invention of ‘Irregular Migration’: Decentering Western Concepts and Categories in the International Policy Discourse on West African Mobility” , 22nd Annual IMISCOE Conference, Institut Convergences Migrations, Paris-Aubervilliers and online.
  • 06/2025: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura: "Beyond 'Facts'. A Four-dimensional Approach to Knowledge Production on Migration", IMIS/SFB Lecture Series, Universität Osnabrück.
  • 06/2025: Schäfer, Philipp: “Umkämpfte Zukünfte der Migration”, Research Workshop “Migrationsgesellschaftliche Zukunftsperspektiven”, University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration HSPV NRW, Münster.
  • 04/2025: Bartels, Inken: “The Invention of ‘Irregular Migration’ in West Africa: Questioning Numbers and Narratives in the International Policy Discourse”, IMISCOE Spring Conference “The Regularity of Irregularity: Rethinking Migration Paradigms”, University for Continuing Education Krems and online.
  • 09/2024: Bartels, Inken: “Rechtsextreme Sprache und Diskursverschiebung am Beispiel Migration”, Fachtag des Behördenkompetenznetzwerks Rechtsextremismus “Rechtsextremismus – steigende Herausforderungen für die Mitte”, Secretary of State for Employment, Social Affairs, Family Affairs and Integration, The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
  • 09/2024: Stielike, Laura: “The Digital Production of Knowledge on Migration”, Center for Social Theory, Department of Sociology, Ghent University.
  • 07/2024: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura/Stierl, Maurice: “The Moral Economies of Reflexive Migration Studies”, Panel “Knowledge Production on Migration”, 21st Annual IMISCOE Conference, ISCTE Lisbon. 
  • 07/2024: Stielike, Laura: “Postcolonial Laboratories, Dangerous Movements, and Function Creep: Digital Geographies of the COVID Crisis”, Panel “Knowledge Production on Migration”, 21st Annual IMISCOE Conference, ISCTE Lisbon.
  • 06/2024: Stielike, Laura: “Counter Knowledge Production on Migration in Digital Times: Reflexivity, Epistemology, Politics”, COST Action DATAMIG Workshop, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (online).
  • 09/2023: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielieke, Laura/Stierl, Maurice: “The Moral Economies of Reflexive Migration Studies”, Conference “Migration Studies and Social Theory: Problematizing Ontologies; De-centering Migration”, University of Tübingen.
  • 09/2023: Schäfer, Philipp: “Situiertes Wissen, kritische Begegnungen und die Grenzen von Care. Methodische Herausforderungen der Koproduktion von Wissen über Migration mit der Polizei”, AK Empirische Polizeiforschung Conference “Polizei und Forschung: Stillstand oder Fortschritt?”, South East Hesse Police Headquarters, Offenbach.
  • 07/2023: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura: “Practicing Double Reflexivity. Producing Knowledge on the Production of Knowledge on Migration”, Panel “Care and harm in the production of knowledge on migration”, 20th Annual IMISCOE Conference, University of Warsaw. 
  • 03/2023: Bartels, Inken: “Managing ‘migration crises’ and the politics of measuring migration in West Africa”, ESA Research Network 35 “Sociology of Migration” Midterm Conference “Departures, arrivals, border-crossings:  changing migrations in times of crises”, University of Naples Federico II.
  • 03/2023: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura/Stierl, Maurice: “Sanctioned Ignorance? Postcolonial Challenges for Sociological Migration Research”, Conference “Cultural Sociology in Postcolonial Perspective”, Section Cultural Sociology of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Osnabrück University.
  • 03/2023: Schäfer, Philipp: “Die Produktion polizeilichen Wissens über Migration”, German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) (online).
  • 02/2023: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura: “Contested Terminologies of Migration: Presenting the ‘Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe’”, Workshop “Vocabularies of Migration. Reflexive Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity, Translation and Language in Migration Research”, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen (online).
  • 11/2022: Bartels, Inken: “Les politiques des statistiques migratoires en Afrique de l’Ouest”, Winter School “Pratiques bureaucratiques et expertise professionnelle dans le contexte colonial et postcolonial (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)”, Dakar.
  • 11/2022: Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura: “Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration”. Invited lecture at the FiST colloquium “Leitkultur, Integration, Flüchtling, Migrationshintergrund, Halbsprachigkeit. Begriffe der Migration in der Kontroverse”, University of Cologne.
  • 10/2022: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura: Workshop “Between care and harm. How can we (self)reflexively study the production of knowledge on migration?”, German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) Conference, Humboldt University Berlin.
  • 10/2022: Schäfer, Philipp: “Über Sozialprognostik und lokale Integrationspolitik”, German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) Conference, Berlin.
  • 09/2022: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura: “Practicing Double Reflexivity. Producing Knowledge on the Production of Knowledge on Migration”, Panel of the section “Migration and ethnic minorities” on “Reflexivity as a Methogological Challenge for Migration Research”, 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association “Polarized Worlds”, University of Bielefeld.
  • 07/2022: Schäfer, Philipp: “How to Reflexively Study the Production of Knowledge on Migration in and through Police Research Institutions?”, easst Conference, Madrid.
  • 01/2022: Bartels, Inken/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura: “Practicing Double Reflexivity. Producing Knowledge on the Production of Knowledge on Migration”, Authors workshop for the anthology “Reflexivities in Migration Studies”, London.
  • 07/2021: Bartels, Inken: “The Politics of (Un)Counting International Migration in West Africa”, 18th Annual IMISCOE Conference, Luxembourg (online).
  • 01/2021: Bartels, Inken/Stielike, Laura: “What Difference Does the Digital Make? A Comparative Perspective on Statistical and Big Data Based Knowledge Production on Migration“, Panel “Doing Reflexive Migration Studies in Digital Times”, ESA RN 35 „Sociology of Migration” Midterm Conference “Towards Reflexivity in Migration Studies. Knowledge Production in Times of Contested Politics and Post Colonial Dynamics”, Technical University Berlin (online).
  • 01/2021: Bartels, Inken: “The Politics of (Un)Counting International Migration in West Africa”, STS-MIGTEC Workshop (online).
  • 01/2021: Stielike, Laura: “Migration Multiple. Big Data, Knowledge Practices and the Governability of Migration”, STS-MIGTEC Workshop (online). 
  • 09/2020 Stielike, Laura: “Data, Power, Knowledge. An Intersectional Analysis of Big Data based Research on (Forced) Migration”, Panel "Forced Migration Research Meets Intersectionality”, 3rd Conference of the German Network of Forced Migration Research, University of Cologne (online).
  • 07/2020: Stielike, Laura: “Practicing Double Reflexivity. Big Data and the Production of Knowledge about the Production of Knowledge about Migration”, Panel “Reflexivity in Migration Studies”, 17th Annual IMISCOE Conference (online).
  • 04/2020: Stielike, Laura: “Big Data, Migration Governance and the Production of Knowledge”, German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) (online).
  • 02/2020: Stielike, Laura: “Producing Migration Knowledge. From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy”, Pre-Conference Workshop “Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice”, Munich.
  • 10/2019: Stielike, Laura: “The Crisis of European Migration Governance and the Promises of Big Data”, Conference “Digital Fortress Europe: Exploring Boundaries between Media, Migration and Technology”, Brussels.
  • 09/2019: Stielike, Laura: “Counting Insecurities. Data and the Governability of Migration”, Conference “Data Power: global in/securities”, University of Bremen.

 

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