Research
Projects of the department of socio-cultural diversity

List of projects of the department of socio-cultural diversity

Institutions and Organizations

Cities and the Challenge of Diversity: a Study in Germany and France. Project leader: Karen Schönwälder, researchers: Christian Jacobs, Julia Martinez-Ariño, Michalis Moutselos, Maria Schiller, Alexandre Tandé
Hollowing out ascriptive person categories: the concept of employability, its usage by public employment services and its effect on client’s categorization. Christine Weinbach
Planning diversity. The influence of city planning on spatial structures of diversity and the cohabitation of diverse groups. Christian Jacobs
Re-casting local laïcité: The local governance of religious diversity in France. Julia Martínez-Ariño
Research programme: Political institutions and the challenge of diversity. Karen Schönwälder, Christiane Kofri, Cihan Sinanoglu, Alex Street, Daniel Volkert

Post-multicultural cities and the politics of diversity. Maria Schiller
Superdiversity and pathways to health care. Charlie Davison (Essex), Gill Green (Essex), Hannah Bradby (Warwick), Susann Huschke (Berlin), Gabi Alex (Tübingen), Kristine Krause, Felipe Morente Mejías (Jaén), Inmaculada Barroso Benítez (Jaén)

Encounters and Representations

Engaging inequalities: How interactions between recent ‘refugees’ with established Iranians reflect social changes in Germany. Sonja Moghaddari
The road ahead is paved with wireless networks: Refugees, mobile technology, and adaptation in Germany. Jessica Rosenfeld
Socio-cultural diversity and political issue deliberation in Northern Ghana. Elena Gadjanova
Transnational community life: Living apart, celebrating together, expanding social networks. Beate Engelbrecht
Transnational migrant ties: Social formation and reproduction among Armenians in Germany. Astghik Chaloyan

Flows, Dynamics and Urban Space

Deaf-hearing gestural interaction in Mumbai: An ethnography of communication. Annelies Kusters
Diversity of asylum seekers’ needs and aspirations. Susanne Becker, Simona Pagano, Miriam Schader, Steven Vertovec, Shahd Wari
Imaginaries of Opportunity: Regional Migration and Humanitarian Urbanisms in East & Central Africa. Dr. Léonie Newhouse
Migrants' interaction with the formal and informal state in the Russian Federation. Paul Becker
Picturing social encounters. Visual research of diversity in public space. Anna Seegers-Krückeberg
The politics of getting a seat. Diversity, intersectionality and deaf commuters in the “handicapped compartments” of Mumbai suburban trains. Annelies Kusters
Super-diversity. Steven Vertovec
Super-diversity, urbanization and mobile communication technologies in Africa’s cities. Naluwembe Binaisa

Super-diversity, South Africa

COMPLETED PROJECTS

The Ashgate companion to cosmopolitanism. Magdalena Nowicka, Maria Rovisco (York St. John University)
Backlash against multiculturalism?. Steven Vertovec, Susanne Wessendorf
The business of integration: Super-diversity, migrants' religious entrepreneurship, and social transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Peter Kankonde Bukasa
Cohabitation and convivencia. Comparing conviviality in Casamance and Catalonia. Tilmann Heil
Comparing planning interventions in culturally diverse cities of global immigration. Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan
Conditions of conviviality and conflict. Steven Vertovec, Andreas Wimmer (University of California Los Angeles), Stefan Lindemann
The diversification of postwar migration. Alan Gamlen, Steven Vertovec, Norbert Winnige
Diversity and Contact (‘DivCon’). Karen Schönwälder, Steven Vertovec, Sören Petermann (Cologne), Jörg Hüttermann (Bielefeld), Thomas Schmitt (Erlangen), Mijal Gandelsman-Trier (Hamburg), Christian Jacobs, Miles Hewstone and Katharina Schmid (both Oxford), Dietlind Stolle (Montreal)
Diversity and integration in Frankfurt. Steven Vertovec, Regina Römhild (Ludwig- Maximilian-Universität München), Amt für multikulturelle Angelegenheiten (Frankfurt)
Diversity and public administration. Boris Nieswand
Diversity and social identity complexity. Katharina Schmid and Miles Hewstone (both University of Oxford)
Enacting European citizenship. Ayse Caglar, Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University)
Ethnicity in German society. Karen Schönwälder
Ethno-religious diversity and social trust. Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford), Anthony Heath (University of Oxford), Ceri Peach (University of Oxford), Sarah Spencer (University of Oxford), Steven Vertovec
Folk medicine in South India: Representations of diverse identities in medical encounters. Gabriele Alex
Global cities/ Open cities? Segregation in the global South. Darshan Vigneswaran
GLOBALDIVERCITIES - migration and new diversities in global cities: comparatively conceiving, observing and visualizing diversification in urban public spaces. Project leader: Steven Vertovec, Researchers: Sofya Aptekar, Anna Cieslik, Beate Engelbrecht, Dörte Ulka Engelkes, Laavanya Kathiravelu, Raji Matshedisho, Alexei Matveev, Anna Seegers-Krückeberg, Alex Wafer, Junjia Ye, Abbas Yousefpour
Globalization, urban re-invention, and migrants. Ayse Caglar
Home making in diversity: Social and spatial encounters with difference in a migration hub of Istanbul. Kristen Biehl
How generations remember: An ethnographic study of post-war Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Monika Palmberger
Immigrants in German city councils. Christiane Kofri, Karen Schönwälder, Cihan Sinanoglu, Daniel Volkert
Immigrants in German politics: Local elections and local parliaments in Northrhine-Westfalia. Karen Schönwälder, Christiane Kofri
Immigration and political socialization. Alex Street, Michael Jones-Correa (Cornell University), Chris Zepeda-Millán (Loyola Marymount University)
International policing, mobility and crime in Southern Africa. Darshan Vigneswaran
Language factories: Cape Town, Kinshasa, Abidjan, Brussels. Karel Arnaut
Metoikos. Ayse Caglar
Migration. Steven Vertovec
Migration and diversity. Steven Vertovec
Migration and forced labour in Southern Africa. Darshan Vigneswaran
Multiculturalism. Gerd Baumann (University of Amsterdam), Steven Vertovec
Older migrants in Vienna: Aging and social relations. Monika Palmberger
Publication project: "Therapeutic crises, diversification and mainstreaming". Gabi Alex, Kristine Krause, David Parkin
Roma and healthcare: A case study of reproductive health and cultural difference in Madrid. Beatriz Martín Aragón
The Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies. Steven Vertovec
Social relations in super-diverse London. Susanne Wessendorf
Socialising with diversity. Fran Meissner
Super-diversity, South Africa. Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen and various colleagues at the Universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Johannesburg, and Witwatersrand

Tensions of diversity: Living and planning in globalizing urban spaces. Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan
Theorising transnational migration. The status paradox of migration. Boris Nieswand
The transformative capacity of commemorating violent pasts. Claire Whitlinger
Transnationalism. Steven Vertovec
Unrecognized multiculturalism from below-Macedonian realities. Goran Janev
Urban populations and their social capital. Sören Petermann
Writing along the margins: Literacy and agency in a West African city. Karel Arnaut

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