This event will bring together experts on highly skilled migration in major migrant receiving countries in (South) East Asia as well as Germany to explore and compare the challenges of retaining, rather than simply recruiting, highly skilled migrants in ageing societies.
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Given by Dr. Michael McEachrane during the workshop "Black multiplicities, African multiplicities? Theorising Migration, Identity, and Blackness from a European standpoint".
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The roundtable discussion will link the academy to creative explorations of Blackness, with input from guests Dr. Melody Howse (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle), Yero Adugna (Black in Berlin), and Solomon Mekonen (University of Oslo, Norway).
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Final meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model"
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Co-convened by CERC Scholar of Excellence Daniel Hiebert, Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia, Steven Vertovec, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Anna Triandafyllidou, Chair, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec has been working with his "Superdiversity" concept for 20 years. The book "Superdiversity. Migration and Social Complexity", published in 2023, was translated into German for the first time this year under the title "Superdiversität. Migration and Social Complexity" was translated into German for the first time this year. It analyzes the new levels of migration in the 21st century.This is an opportunity for the National Discrimination and Racism Monitorto take a look at his theory together with the author.
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Research meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model"
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The European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum is a long-awaited answer to the refugee problem to some – and a disastrous demolition of refugee rights to others. Its supporters presented the Pact as a historical agreement that comes to address long-standing shortcomings and imbalances in terms of solidarity and responsibility sharing.
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This workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of recent results as well as to encourage future collaborations between the “Gender, Migration, and Social Mobility among West African Women in Europe” Research Group situated at the MPI for Social Anthropology (Halle) and the “Migration, Identity and Blackness in Europe” Research Group based at the MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). The workshop is jointly organized by both groups.
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The International Art and the City Conference was initiated in 2019 and has been hosted in different cities around the world every year. The 6th Conference sponsor is the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) Göttingen and it will take place at the Institute’s facilities 03-05 June 2024.
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The workshop explores the intersection of disability and migration and seeks to get a deeper understanding of the neglect of this intersection, the different or similar logics of both categories of differences, the social and political and historical effects this intersection evokes, and the insights about societal inequality it offers.
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The workshop is organised by Ulrike Bialas and Johanna M. Lukate, who are guest editing two special issues on the contestation of legal and social categories in the context of migration.
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