Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity is one of the foremost centers for the multi-disciplinary study of diversity, in its multiple forms, in today’s globalizing world. The Institute consists of three thematically-focused departments: the Department of Religious Diversity, the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity and the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics.more
Leibniz Prize 2019 for Ayelet Shachar
Ayelet Shachar, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity (MPI MMG), has been awarded the 2019 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for her groundbreaking work on citizenship and the legal frameworks of multicultural societies. Awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Leibniz Prize is Germany’s most prestigious research award.https://stories.mmg.mpg.de/Leibniz_Prize_2019_Ayelet_Shachar/index.html
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(Congregational singing in the dedication of Shimen’gen Church, Fugong County, 27 July 2014. Photo: Ying Diao)
The DATARAMA
A Multimedia-Tool for Research, Teaching and PresentationFor scientists who rely on visual data or data visualizations, the limitations of monitors, multiple monitor spans or projection facilities can present serious limitations for data gathering and the analysis and presentation of findings. Arising from MPI-MMG’s ‘GlobaldiverCities’ project, the Datarama is a unique research and presentation tool that provides a significant solution to the limitations of working with visual data.
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The Here and Now in Forced Migration: Everyday Intimacies, Imaginaries and Bureaucracies
22-23 October 2020 | Göttingen
Regulating and Experiencing Immigrant Status Transition: Comparing Entry, Settlement, and Naturalization
22 May 2020 | Berlin
Journal Articles
Heil, T. (2019). Conviviality as diasporic knowledge. African diaspora, 11(1-2), 53-70.
Yamamura, S. (2019). Transnational professionals’ socio-spatialventuring out to the Tokyo global city-region. Regional studies, regional science, 6(1), 512-519.
Tayob, S. (2019). Disgust as embodied critique: being middle class and Muslim in Mumbai. South Asia: journal of South Asian studies.
Drouhot, L.G., & Nee, V. (2019). Assimilation and the Second Generation in Europe and America: Blending and Segregating Social Dynamics Between Immigrants and Natives. Annual Review of Sociology, 45, 177-199.
Amrith, M. (2019). The substance of care: Ethical dilemmas in migrant medical labour. Ethnos, 1-17.
Contributions to a collected Edition
Binaisa, N. (2019). Lagos: negotiating urban mobilities in an age of mobile telephony. In A. F. Mendy (Ed.), Mobilités, circulations et frontières: Migrations, mobilités et développement en Afrique Tome 1 (pp. 137-151). Daraja Press.
Tayob, S. (2019). Molecular Halal: producing, debating, and evading Halal certification in South Africa. In K. Dmitriev, J. Hauser, & B. Orfali (Eds.), Insatiable appetite: food as cultural signifier in the Middle East and beyond. Leiden: Brill.
Rau, V. (2019). Turning the Kaleidoscope and pluralism inside-out: the case of Berlin’s Jewish scene. In J.-J. Bock (Ed.), Emergent religious pluralisms (pp. 195-221). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature.
Ahmad, I. (2019). Democracy as rumour: media, religion, and the 2014 Indian elections. In I. Ahmad, & P. Kanungo (Eds.), The algebra of warfare-welfare. A long view of India's 2014 election (pp. 55-90). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Working Papers
WP 19-05 Daniel Hiebert (University of British Colombia): Superdiversity and Cities - Technical Report
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WP 19-06 Massimiliano Spotti (Tilburg University): Interactional regimes of sociolinguistic behaviour: An ethnographic exploration of the scales at play across the spaces of an asylum-seeking centre
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