Reflexivity Lab

Reflexivity Lab

The ReflexLab is the central space for joint interdisciplinary research in the Collaborative Research Centre. This includes discussions of overarching methodological and conceptual questions as well as the processing of thematic overlaps between the sub-projects and an analysis of what reflexivity means in each individual sub-project and from different disciplinary perspectives.  At the same time, the Reflexivity Lab takes care of the development of an innovative methodology of reflexive migration research and a reflexive theory of the production of migration.

The working formats of the laboratory include WorkLabs on the theorisation of the media of the production of migration and a WorkLab ›Reflexive Methodology‹, in which – in continuous cooperation with the SFB Mercator Fellow and the SFB’s guests – the concept of reflexivity is analysed both theoretically and in terms of research practice from various disciplinary perspectives. The lab also provides a space for creative, experimental work in which new possibilities for knowledge and critique are generated. These are tested, implemented and further developed in dialogue with the SFB’s specific empirical projects. This also includes close co-operation with the transfer project.

The ReflexLab continuously supports the sub-projects in their data collection and analysis processes. Its planned publications include a theoretical volume on the production of migration, a handbook on reflexive migration research and an international anthology on ›Epistemic Trust‹ (together with Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, among others).


Picture of Jens Schneider
© Simone Reukauf

ReflexLab Coordinator : Dr. Jens Schneider

Anthropology
Osnabrück University

Picture of Janine Dahinden
© Janine Dahinden

Mercator Fellow : Prof. Dr. Janine Dahinden

DFG-Mercator-Fellow (2024-2027)

Transnational Studies
University of Neuchâtel

Picture of Isabell Diekmann
© Miriam Sachs

Coordinator ›Figures‹ : Dr. Isabell Diekmann

 Project A2

Sociology
TU Dortmund

Office in Osnabrück: 03/E17

Picture of Nandita Dutta
© Miriam Sachs

Coordinator ›Media Linkage‹ : Dr. Nandita Dutta

 Project C5

Social Geography / Ethnography
Osnabrück University

Picture of Sophie Hinger
© Miriam Sachs

Coordinator ›Spaces‹ : Dr. Sophie Hinger

 Project C1

Social Geography
Osnabrück University

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© privat

Postdoctoral Researcher : Dr. Lekh Nath Paudel

 Project B3

International Political Economy
Osnabrück University

Picture of Nantke Pecht
© Leona Schmidt

Coordinator ›Infrastructures‹ : Dr. Nantke Pecht

 Project B5

Linguistics
University of Münster

Office in Osnabrück: 03/E21

News

Teaser: Workshop

South-South migration, including Chinese migration to South Africa

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

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)

Podium und ein Teil des Publikums während der Diskussion
© Theater Osnabrück

Kulturproduktion in der Migrationsgesellschaft - Aktuelle und zukünftige Herausforderungen

Buchvorstellung, Vortrag und Podiumsdiskussion zu den Ergebnissen des Forschungsprojekts KultMIX im Dialog mit der kulturellen & kulturpolitischen Praxis am 6. Mai 2025 im Theater Osnabrück

Die Schauspielerin Shabaneh Seyedzadeh bei einem Work- shop am Thalia-Theater Hamburg unter Leitung von Altamasch
© Mauricio Bustamante

Kulturproduktion in der Migrationsgesellschaft - Aktuelle und zukünftige Herausforderungen

Vortrag & Diskussion zu den Ergebnissen des Forschungsprojekts KultMIX im Dialog mit der kulturellen & kulturpolitischen Praxis: 6.5.2025 im Theater Osnabrück

Teaser: Workshop

Epistemic Trust in Migration Studies II

Workshop in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen)

Teaser: Workshop

Reflexive Ethnography

Workshop with Prof. Dr. John Bornemann (Anthropology, Princeton University) on central elements of ethnographic research, focusing on the changing meanings of “participant observation”

Teaser: Workshop

Hummustopia: Food-based research on everyday practices of dialogue and democracy

Talk & Discussion with Avraham Rosenblum (Hamburg)

›Introduction to the ReflexLab‹

Jens Schneider & Nandita Dutta on the SFB's Reflexivity Lab

Teaser: Workshop

Ethics and politics of researching and teaching migration

Workshop with Dr. Teresa Piacentini (Sociology, University of Glasgow) on the ethics and politics of conducting migration research and carving out possibilities for doing it better