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Report Globale Flucht 2025
[28.5.2025] New publication: Report Globale Flucht 2025 contains short, comprehensive articles on global displacement, refugee protection, and related concepts and terms. Editors: Jochen Oltmer, Marcel Berlinghoff, Frank Düvell, Benjamin Etzold, Christine Lang and Andreas Pott.
Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre "Production of Migration" (SFB 1604)
[28.5.2025] A postdoctoral position is available in the Collaborative Research Centre 'Production of Migration' (E13, full-time, initially limited to two years). The application deadline is 25 June 2025.
›Between Aspiration and Reality: The Administrative Practice of Implementing the Right to Family Reunification for Refugees‹
[2.6.2025] IMIS/SFB Lecture with Dr. Marie Beyrich on 10 June 2025 18:00-19:30h in Room 15/318 (Seminarstraße 20). Marie Beyrich (Law, University of Regensburg) uses empirical cases to illustrate how the legal right to family reunification can be difficult or impossible to implement in practice. She will discuss the practical problems and bureaucratic hurdles that refugees face, and explain how migration is governed by legal frameworks and administrative procedures.
IMIS/SFB Lecture Series: Programme Summer Semester 2025
[31.1.2025] IMIS and SFB 1604 invite you to a joint lecture series: We are looking forward to inspiring lectures with guests from the fields of anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, law, political science and sociology.
Journal of Migration Studies: issue 1/2024 online now
[26.11.2024] Vol. 1/2024 of the Journal of Migration Studies (ZMF) is online now: It comprises four essays and two discussion papers from different disciplines. The new journal is a freely accessible open access journal and is published twice a year. All contributions are subject to a review process for quality assurance. The journal offers a forum for the scolarly examination of the background and conditions of spatial movements of people in the past and present as well as of social change induced by migration processes in contexts of origin, transit and destination. Read more
Journal of Migration Studies (ZMF): Call for Special Issues
[15.11.2024] The Journal of Migration Studies (Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung, ZMF) is a peer-reviewed open access journal in English and German language, published twice a year by the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. It offers a forum for the scholarly examination of the background and conditions of spatial movements of people in the past and present as well as of social change induced by migration processes in contexts of origin, transit, and destination. Contributions present new findings from various disciplines and fields of research, discuss concepts or formulate theoretical proposals.
We invite scholars in migration research to submit proposals for special issues (6-9 contributions) or special thematic sections in a regular issue (3-5 contributions). Proposals can be submitted at any time, without a specific deadline. Call for Special Issues / ZMF website
International conference and inauguration of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1604
[17.7.2024] The international conference ›Production of Migration: Figures, Infrastructures and Spaces‹ and inauguration of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1604 took place from 23-25 October at Osnabrück University.
Germany's first collaborative research center on migration launches
[10.5.2024] What is migration? The new Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich - SFB) "Production of Migration" at Osnabrück University is investigating this question, because the answer to this question is anything but simple: Why, for example, is the Swedish woman living in Germany not referred to as a migrant, but the children and grandchildren of Turkish immigrants born in Germany are? What is the difference between migration and mobility? How and why do terms for immigrants and their descendants change? In the coming years, the SFB will address such questions. eit. Press release / more information on the SFB
New joint project "Futures of Migration"
[3.5.2024] Another success for migration research in Lower Saxony: The University of Osnabrück, under the leadership of IMIS and with the participation of the Universities of Göttingen and Hildesheim, the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media/Georg Eckert Institute and the Friedland Museum, has successfully applied for the new Lower Saxony cooperation format of a Wissenschaftsraum (Science Space) "Futures of Migration" (FuturMig). - What do migration-related future scenarios look like? What social progress and what fears are associated with migration? What ideas are there for shaping the migration society in a solidary and sustainable way? These are questions that the participating academics will address. They will be focussing on the production of "migration futures" in educational contexts.- The project will be funded with almost three million euros over the next five years. With the "Science Spaces" funding programme, the state of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation are supporting cooperation between universities in Lower Saxony and non-university research institutions. 16 projects have received funding approval.
More information: Press release, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur / Press release, Osnabrück University
