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Sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and its funding initiative "Niedersächsisches Vorab"

Duration of the project: 1/2019 – 6/2025

Research group leader: Dr Maurice Stierl

Researchers: Dr. Inken Bartels, Dr. Philipp Schäfer, and Dr. Laura Stielike

Student Assistant: Kristina Veers

The interdisciplinary research group 'The Production of Knowledge on Migration' investigates the production of knowledge on spatial mobilities. As more and more scholars call for a 'reflexive turn' in migration research, the group aims to add to this debate. Its research focuses on the categories, concepts and data that shape representations of spatially mobile people and that inform the various practices of dealing with their mobilities. Inspired by debates in the History, Sociology and Philosophy of Science, the group analyses the production of knowledge as a situated process that involves specific practices, networks and institutions. It puts a particular emphasis on transnational entanglements and actors. Dedicated to a transdisciplinary, collaborative form of research, it brings together young scholars from different disciplines. By exploring the production and circulation of knowledge on migration, the group seeks to make sense of the ways in which migration is continuously produced and reproduced, both as an object of study and as an object of intervention. It thus hopes to deepen our understanding of how mobilities shape societies (and vice versa), both in the past and in the present.