Thesis - PhD (4)
2016
Thesis - PhD
Neighborhoods against the state: Urban policy and violent protest in Western Europe. Dissertation, University of Princeton (2016)
Thesis - Habilitation (1)
2011
Thesis - Habilitation
Städtische Bevölkerungen und ihr spezifisches soziales Kapital. Habilitation, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (2011)
Thesis - Diploma (1)
2017
Thesis - Diploma
Weltwärts - sexwärts?!: Gender, Sexualität(en) und Begehren in internationalen Freiwilligendiensten. Diploma, 171, XXVII pp., Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag, Köln (2017)
Working Paper (165)
2021
Working Paper
The “Diversity Assent” (DivA) survey: Technical report. MMG Working Paper (21-02) (2021), 165 pp.
Working Paper
Superdiversity and social complexity. MMG Working Paper 21-04 (2021), 16 pp.
Working Paper
Post-empire: A prolegomenon to the study of post-imperial legacies and memories. MMG Working Paper (21-03) (2021), 28 pp.
Working Paper
Superdiversity in metropolitan New York: Technical report. MMG Working Paper (21-01) (2021), 22 pp.
2020
Working Paper
The oeuvre of Peter van der Veer. MMG Working Paper (20-01) pp. 1 - 26 (2020)
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Religion and bioregionalism in Cascadia: The trouble with categories. MMG Working Paper 20-05 (2020), 26 pp.
Working Paper
Religion, spirituality, and secularity in the Pacific Northwest: Major themes. MMG Working Paper 20-02 (2020), 26 pp.
Working Paper
Violence, class and masculinity in Egypt: Gendered punishment in Cairene schools. MMG Working Paper 20 (03) (2020)
2019
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Urban community centers in Turkey: Understanding the diversity of contemporary practices. IPC Istanbul Policy Center: Publications / Reports (2019), 24 pp.
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Rethinking the historiography of coolie integration in British Caribbean cities. MMG Working Paper 19-01 (2019)
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Social media, cyber battalions, and political mobilisation in Ghana. Technical Report. (Nov. 2019) pp. 2 - 19 (2019)
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Conviviality on the brink. Mecila: Working Paper Series 14 (2019)
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Superdiversity and cities: Technical report. MMG Working Paper 19-05 (2019)
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Asylum Seekers of the Syrian Conflict: procedures and patterns of settlement in Germany. MMG Working Papers 19 (19-04) pp. 1 - 37 (2019)
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Expensive classrooms, poor learning: The imperatives of reforming school construction in Egypt. Alternative Policy Solutions: Policy Paper (2019)
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Interactional regimes of sociolinguistic behaviour: An ethnographic exploration of the scales at play across the spaces of an asylum-seeking centre. MMG Working Paper 19-06 (2019)
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Diversifications. MMG Working Paper (19-03) (2019)
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Approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity: reconceptualizing the superdiversity debate in ethnic minority entrepreneurship. MMG Working Paper (19-02) pp. 7 - 30 (2019)
2018
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Ageing in a time of mobility: a research agenda. MMG Working Paper (18-01) (2018), 30 pp.
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Carrying out a computer-aided thematic content analysis with ATLAS.ti. MMG Working Paper (18-02) (2018), 30 pp.
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From integration mainstreaming to convivial disintegration: how superdiversity shows the pitfalls of (mainstreaming) immigrant integration. MMG Working Paper (18-03) (2018), 28 pp.
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Conceiving governance: a state of the art and analytical model for research on immigrant integration. Working Paper, Abteilung für Wirtschafts- und Organisationssoziologie 2018 (01) (2018)
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A bundle of bundles of rights – international treaties regarding migration in the light of the theory of property rights. MMG Working Paper (18-06) (2018), 54 pp.
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Ökonomische Analyse und Migrationsrecht: Migration als Zugang zu Institutionengefügen. MMG Working Paper (18-07) (2018), 37 pp.
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The international movement of people: the fourth economic freedom. MMG Working Paper (18-05) (2018), 21 pp.
Working Paper
A critical perspective on associate EU citizenship after Brexit. DCU Brexit Working Paper 2018 (5) (2018)
2017
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Mediating Mumbai: ethnographic explorations of urban linkage. MMG Working Paper (17-12) (2017), 34 pp.
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The judicial politics of ‘burqa bans’ in Belgium and Spain – Socio-legal field dynamics and the standardization of justificatory repertoires. MMG Working Paper (17-10) (2017), 34 pp.
Working Paper
Visual anthropology: a temple anniversary in Singapore. MMG Working Paper (17-08) (2017), 42 pp.
Working Paper
Das Zusammenleben in der vielfältigen Stadt planen. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung: Flüchtlinge - zwischen Ankommen und Zusammenleben 2017 (2) pp. 44 - 49 (2017)
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Cities and the Challenge of Diversity (CityDiv): The Survey, Technical Report. MMG Working Paper (17-09) (2017), 50 pp.
Working Paper
Gender and urban aspirations: the case of highly educated Uyghur women in Shanghai. MMG Working Paper (17-06) (2017), 24 pp.
Working Paper
Dumont’s hierarchy among the Nuosu of China. MMG Working Paper (17-04) (2017), 22 pp.
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Die Infrastruktur des "Wir schaffen das". Informationen zur Raumentwicklung: Flüchtlinge - zwischen Ankommen und Zusammenleben 2017 (2) pp. 138 - 143 (2017)
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Addressing the diversity of asylum-seekers’ needs and aspirations: A report to the Volkswagen foundation. MMG Working Paper (17-05) (2017), 64 pp.
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Christianity and religious syncretism in early twentieth-century China. MMG Working Paper (17-11) (2017), 24 pp.
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Being new and unconnected: Pioneer migrants in London. MMG Working Paper (17-01) (2017), 28 pp.
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Counting Christians in China: A critical reading of "A star in the East: The rise of Christianity in China". MMG Working Paper (17-03) (2017), 12 pp.
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Bridging Hmong/Miao, extending Miaojiang: divided space, translocal contacts, and the imagination of Hmongland. MMG Working Paper (17-02) (2017), 36 pp.
Working Paper
Han Jie (1894-1960): a Christian and intellectual Miao. MMG Working Paper (17-07) (2017), 20 pp.
2016
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Recalling modernity: How nationalist memories shape religious diversity in Quebec and Catalonia. MMG Working Paper (16-02) (2016), 28 pp.
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CAQDAS and grounded theory analysis. MMG Working Paper (16-07) (2016), 32 pp.
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Fraught transactions: The ethics of monetary exchange in India. MMG Working Paper (16-01) (2016), 28 pp.
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Chinese temples and transnational networks: Hokkien communities in Singapore. MMG Working Paper (16-06) (2016), 40 pp.
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How public space affects interethnic contact: a methodological conceptualization. MMG Working Paper (16-05) (2016), 36 pp.
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A reflexive report on filmmaking within a linguistic ethnography with deaf and hearing people in Mumbai. MMG Working Paper (16-04) (2016), 38 pp.
Working Paper
Weak state / tough territory: The South African mobility regime complex. MMG Working Paper (16-03) (2016), 38 pp.
2015
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The sacred diesel: Infrastructures of transportation and religious representation in Manila. MMG Working Paper (15-10) (2015), 18 pp.
Working Paper
Humanities Data Centre: Angebote und Abläufe für ein geisteswissenschaftliches Forschungsdatenzentrum. HDC-Projektbericht (2015)
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A reflection on the necessity for an ‘ontological turn’ in African studies with reference to the ecologies of knowledge production. MMG Working Paper (15-06) (2015), 36 pp.
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On “diversity” and “inclusion”: Exploring paradigms for achieving sign language peoples’ rights. MMG Working Paper (15-02) (2015), 30 pp.
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Describing and disentangling superdiversity through social networks. MWP Red Number Series 2015 (22) (2015)
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Group consciousness and political behavior among citizens of immigrant origin: The case of France. MMG Working Paper (15-07) (2015), 22 pp.
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The case for penal abolition and Ludic Ubuntu in arrow of god. MMG Working Paper (15-09) (2015), 18 pp.
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Bourdieu’s theory of practice in the study of cultural encounters and transnational transfers in migration. MMG Working Paper (15-01) (2015), 28 pp.
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Repertoires of diversity and collective boundaries. Diverging paths between Portugal and Brazil? MMG Working Paper (15-08) (2015), 44 pp.
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The research traineeship: Conducting participant observation in state organisations. MMG Working Paper (15-12) (2015), 24 pp.
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UNESCO as a Red Cross or as a notary of World Heritage? Structures, scale-related interactions and efficacy of UNESCO’s World Heritage regime. MMG Working Paper (15-05) (2015), 44 pp.
Working Paper
The uninhabitable? An essay on “Regions”. MMG Working Paper (15-04) (2015), 36 pp.
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Raised in the USA: An exploratory study of Latino identity in California. MMG Working Paper (15-03) (2015), 42 pp.
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State, religion, and transnationality in the golden triangle. MMG Working Paper (15-11) (2015), 46 pp.
Working Paper
’All the people speak bad English’: Coping with language differences in a super-diverse context. IRis Working Paper 2015 (9) (2015)
2014
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Exploring migration, diversification and urban transformation in contemporary Istanbul: The case of Kumkapı. MMG Working Paper (14-11) (2014), 20 pp.
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Millenarian dreams, modern aspirations: Tribal community-making and contentious politics in colonial Chotanagpur. MMG Working Paper (14-01) (2014), 38 pp.
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Migration, language diversity and education policy: A contextualized analysis of inequality, risk and state effects. MMG Working Paper (14-09) (2014), 30 pp.
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How and why does it matter to understand diverse urban engagements from the migrants’ perspective? MMG Working Paper (14-03) (2014), 22 pp.
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Ballooning evangelism: Psychological warfare and christianity in the divided Korea. MMG Working Paper (14-07) (2014), 36 pp.
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The accommodation of religious diversity in prisons and hospitals in Spain. Recode: Working Paper Series 28 (2014)
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Beyond the separation of church and state: Explaining the new governance of religious diversity in Spain. MMG Working Paper (14-08) (2014), 30 pp.
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Observer on the move: Shadowing ethnography of ethnic flexibility in NYC. MMG Working Paper (14-04) (2014), 20 pp.
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The changing immigrant cartography of Auckland, New Zealand: An Asian ethnic precinct. MMG Working Paper (14-05) (2014), 32 pp.
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Thailand and the global intimate: Transnational marriages, health tourism and retirement migration. MMG Working Paper (14-02) (2014), 24 pp.
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Online archiving as claims to history: New media and religious politics in India. MMG Working Paper (14-10) (2014), 30 pp.
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Urban markets and diversity: Toward a research agenda. MMG Working Paper (14-06) (2014), 34 pp.
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Citizenship and immigration in Western Europe: National trajectories under postnational conditions? A qualitative comparative analysis of selected countries. MMG Working Paper (14-12) (2014), 50 pp.
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Researching social relations in super-diverse neighbourhoods: Mapping the field. IRis Working Paper 2014 (2) (2014)
2013
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A politics of comparative conceptualizations and institutions: two non-European images on European secularity in the writing of the 1961 Turkish constitution. MMG Working Paper (13-02) (2013), 34 pp.
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“you can’t buy a vote”: cash and community in a Mumbai election. MMG Working Paper (13-01) (2013), 50 pp.
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A review of research and policy documents on the international migration of physicians and nurses. MMG Working Paper (13-07) (2013), 40 pp.
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Religion and ethnicity as differentiating factors in the social structure of the Caribbean. MMG Working Paper (13-06) (2013), 32 pp.
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The nationalization of religion: Cultural performances and the youth of Soka Singapore. MMG Working Paper (13-17) (2013), 30 pp.
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Beyond the informal: Reconceptualizing Mumbai‘s urban development. MMG Working Paper (13-13) (2013), 44 pp.
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Belonging in the nation-state: Civic and ethno-belonging among recent refugees to Australia. MMG Working Paper (13-12) (2013), 41 pp.
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Situational ranking and conflict: A bottom-up perspective on urban intergroup life. MMG Working Paper (13-09) (2013), 58 pp.
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Bazaar pagodas in Berlin: gendered religious identities among Vietnamese migrant Women. MMG Working Paper (13-03) (2013), 20 pp.
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Asiatown – A post-socialist bazaar in the eastern part of Berlin. MMG Working Paper (13-08) (2013), 24 pp.
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Friendship and the urban encounter:towards a research agenda. MMG Working Paper (13-10) (2013), 19 pp.
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God can wait: new migrants in Germany between early adaptation and religious re-organisation. Norface Migration Discussion Paper (2013-04) (2013)
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Indian Muslims in a global city: socio-political effects on economic preferences in contemporary Mumbai. MMG Working Paper (13-04) (2013), 30 pp.
Working Paper
Multiple belonging and the challenges to biographic navigation. MMG Working Paper (13-05) (2013), 32 pp.
Working Paper
The logic of diasporic selfhood. MMG Working Paper (13-15) (2013), 22 pp.
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‘Being open, but sometimes closed’: Living together in a super-diverse London neighbourhood. MMG Working Paper (13-11) (2013), 22 pp.
Working Paper
Labour recruitment practices and its class implications: comparing workers in Singapore’s segmented labour market. MMG Working Paper (13-14) (2013), 28 pp.
Working Paper
Transnational medical spaces: Opportunities and restrictions. MMG Working Paper (13-16) (2013), 36 pp.
2012
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Scaling claims of common good: transnational and intercultural advocacy in the Brazilian Amazon. MMG Working Paper (12-03) (2012), 34 pp.
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“After all, they are nomads, aren’t they?”: Roma transnationalism and health issues. MMG Working Paper (12-20) (2012), 24 pp.