Veranstaltungen der Abteilung für soziokulturelle Vielfalt (in absteigender Reihenfolge)

Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen

"The market model: convergence and variation in immigration regimes worldwide"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18

"Cities of refuge and those that refuse: the policy, politics and praxis of local refugee reception in Europe"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18

"Migration control and global governance: an emergent international regime?"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18

"From migrant integration towards diversity mainstreaming? Between concept and (urban) reality"

Open Lectures Summer 2017
  • Datum: 15.06.2017
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Peter Scholten (Erasmus University Rotterdam & IMISCOE)
  • Peter Scholten is Associate Professor for Public Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and director of IMISCOE, Europe’s largest academic research network in the area of international migration, integration and social cohesion. His work focuses on the governance of migration and migration-related diversity, on multi-level governance, and on the interaction between research and policy-making in the area of migration. Peter has published in various international journals and recently published the book ‘Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe’ together with Andrew Geddes. Also, he is editor in chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. For more information, see www.peterscholten.eu
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall

"The 2017 French presidential election: Results and prospects"

Workshops, conferences 2017
For the second time in the history of the French fifth Republic, the Front National is on the second turn of the presidential election. For the first time, both main parties – the Socialist Party with Benoit Hamon and the Republicans with François Fillon – have been beaten. During a long campaign full of twists and turns (both winners of the primaries were underdogs, fake job scandals, etc.), a new leftist force has emerged, embodied by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and a centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, who never got elected before, won it all. [mehr]

"The politics of naming and counting in the refugee crisis"

Open Lectures Spring 2017
  • Datum: 30.03.2017
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)
  • Nando Sigona is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute of Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include: statelessness; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; ‘illegality’ and the everyday experiences of undocumented migrant children and young people; governance and governmentality of forced migration in the EU; Mediterranean boat migration; Brexit and intra-European migration; and unaccompanied youth migration. He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014) and the forthcoming Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, rights and belonging (2017). Nando is a founding editor of the journal Migration Studies.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall

"Deaf spaces on Mumbai trains. A film by Annelies Kusters

Workshops, conferences 2018
Presentation of film, talk & discussion [mehr]

"Migration out of poverty or flight from collective and individual violence? Biographic self-presentations of migrants andrefugees from and in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Datum: 19.01.2017
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Göttingen)
  • Gabriele Rosenthal is Professor for Qualitative Methodology at the Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany. Major research on the intergenerational impact of the collective and familial history on biographical structures and actional patterns of individuals and family systems. Actual research on migration, ethnicity, collective and armed conflicts and trauma. Teaching qualitative methods, biographical research, family sociology and general sociology. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Holocaust in Three Generations (2009), Ethnicity, Belonging and Biography (2009; together with Artur Bogner) and Belonging to Outsiders and Established at the same Time. Self-Images and We-Images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel (in press).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall

"Registers and Racialization in South Africa"

InCoLaS Workshop "Language and inequality in the age of superdiversity" : Keynote Lecture
James Collins is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University at Albany/SUNY. An anthropologist and linguist by training, his work often combines fine-grained analysis of linguistic practices with ethnographic research engaging theoretical debates about power, identity and inequality. He has done fieldwork in Native American communities in Northern California, and in urban schools and communities in the West, Midwest, and Northeast of the U.S. [mehr]
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