News & Updates

Artificial intelligence, quantum physics and future challenges
What opportunities and risks does artificial intelligence offer? What is the relationship between science and politics? What could extraterrestrial life look like? And how was quantum theory developed in Göttingen around 100 years ago? These and other current research questions are the focus of this year's lecture series “Science at the Göttingen Literature Festival”. 
Insights@MPIMMG

Insights@MPIMMG

September 03, 2024
In this series, our researchers give brief 3 minute insights into their work: what they research, how they do it and why it is significant. This time: Victoria Kumala Sakti on Ageing in displacement”.
 
   
Awards for “Forever 17”
Ulrike Bialas’ book ”Forever 17: Coming of Age in the German Asylum System” was rewarded the ”Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award of the American Sociological Association” and the ”Research Award Ethnography of the German Sociological Association”.
Superdiversity. Migration and Social Complexity
This new book Superdiversity by Steven Vertovec presents a convincing case for recognizing new social formations created by changing migration patterns and calls for a re-thinking of public policy and social scientific approaches to social difference.
The Open Access version is now available at www.taylorfrancis.com.
"We need to move away from multiculturalism"
Steven Vertovec researches the complexity of today's migration movements. A conversation about his concept of superdiversity, xenophobia, right-wing populists and the situation in schools. (in German) • Der Standard, 1. September 2024
Vanessa Rau in conversation with Dagmar Herzog
In our second One to One Series video Postdoc Dr. Vanessa Rau is in conversation with Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, on Herzog’s newest book “The Question of Unworthy Life” and contemporary Germany as a migration society.
 

Forthcoming Events

Epistemic Trust and Migration Studies

Conference
Oct 16, 2024 - Oct 18, 2024
Berlin

Ageing in a Time of Mobility: Reflections on the Field from Past to Future

Workshop
Oct 16, 2024 - Oct 18, 2024
Harnack Haus, Berlin

ALUMNI HOUR | Magdalena Suerbaum (Universität Bielefeld, Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies): "The in-between: navigating academic (non-)belonging"

Magdalena Suerbaum (Universität Bielefeld, Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies)
Oct 30, 2024 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Zoom Meeting

The Visceral and the Virtual: Memorial Practices in Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Workshop
Jan 29, 2025 - Feb 1, 2025
Harnack House Berlin

MPI-MMG @ Conferences

▪   Ulrike Bialas: "From Men to Minors: How Legal and Social Constructs of Age Complicate South-North Migration"
Point Sud workshop series
November 12-16, 2024 | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso


MPI-MMG in Dialogue
Our series of events on new research findings and current debates will continue. We will be discussing superdiversity, German migration policy, diversity assent and age and migration. Videos of previous In Dialogue events can be found here.

Career & Calls

Workshop on 8-9 May 2025 | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI MMG), Göttingen, Germany
Deadline for applications is 17 November 2024

Job Offers

Currently we do not have any vacancies.
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CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS

Palgrave Macmillan
Global Diversities

Recent MMG Publications | Monographs and Edited Volumes


https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-55544-2
https://www.routledge.com/Superdiversity-Migration-and-Social-Complexity/Vertovec/p/book/9780415834636#sup
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/aspiring-in-later-life/9781978830400
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo208300969.html
https://profilebooks.com/work/how-to-live-with-each-other/
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-eu-migrant-generation-in-asia
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/schooling-the-nation/C17A639E1EF9E1448842B6ACEA6216F5
https://www.bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenreihe/519287/religionsverfassungsrecht-revisited/

Issues

Sampaio, D., & Amrith, M. (Eds.). (2023). Special issue: Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus [Special Issue]. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(4). Link

Reddy, G., Coultas, C. & Lukate, J.M. (Eds.) (2023). Towards a social psychology of precarity [Special Issue]. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(S1). Link

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Journal Articles

Bialas, U., Lukate, J. M., & Vertovec, S. (2024). Contested categories in the context of international migration: introduction to the special issue. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Link

Bialas, U. (2024). Who is a minor? Age assessments of refugees in Germany and the classificatory multiplicity of the state. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Link

Vertovec, S., & Genest, S. (2024). Super-Diversity and systems thinking: Selected moments from a conversation with Steven Vertovec. Humans, 4(3), 279-283. Link

Fliess, N., Kiani, A., & Østergaard-Nielsen, E. (2024). Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010. Democratization, 1-25. Link

Rau, V., & Baykara-Krumme, H. (2024). Migration meets disability. Approaches to intersectionality in the context of a disability rights organization. Disability & Society. Link

Kyselova, O. (2024). The restriction of labour rights in war conditions: The Ukranian experience. InterEULawEast, 11(1), 167-199. Link

Matyjas-Lysakowska, P., & Kyselova, O. (2024). Employee subordination of civil service officials in the context of remote work: Insights from Polish and Ukranian experience. Futurity: Economics and Law, 4(2), 148-167. Link

Peretz, D. (2024). Mediatization of Jewish–Muslim dialogue in Germany amid COVID‑19. Contemporary Jewry. Link

Lemon, E., Torno, S., & Rashidov, T. (2024). Values education, the family, and youth in Tajikistan: Building docile subjects. Problems of Post-Communism, 1-11. Link

Emmerich, A. (2024). Freundschaftspioniere im Bahnhofsviertel: Juden und Muslime in einer multikulturellen Nachbarschaft. Herder-Korrespondenz: Monatshefte für Gesellschaft und Religion, 2024(5), 30-32. Link

Lanari, E. (2024). Makeshift activism and the afterlives of refugee welcome in Covid-19 Italy. Critique of Anthropology, OnlineFirst, 1-20. Link

Sobhy, H. (2024). When do teachers strike: Between strong Unions, divergent preferences and political opportunity in Tunisia. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-16. Link

Drożdżowicz, A., & Peled, Y. (2024). The complexities of linguistic discrimination. Philosophical Psychology. Link

Vertovec, S., Hiebert, D., Spoonley, P., & Gamlen, A. (2024). Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity. Urban Geography, 45(2), 179-200. Link

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Contributions to a collected Edition

Schönwälder, K., & Petermann, S. (2024). Vielfalt aus Sicht der Bevölkerung: eine alltägliche Normalität. In F. Gesemann, D. Filsinger, & S. Münch (Eds.), Handbuch Lokale Integrationspolitik (pp. 1-13). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Link

Lukate, J. M. (2023). Ein Nachwort auf (Schwarze) Haare. In E. H. Murandu (Ed.), Book about hair (pp. 330-348). Weimar: Lucia Verlag. Link

Seethaler-Wari, S. (2024). Architektur und kulturspezifische Raumnutzung: Wohnraumgestaltung für eine heterogene Bewohner*innenschaft. In F. Werner, P. Piechura, C. Bormann, & I. Breckner (Eds.), Flucht, Raum, Forschung: Eine Einführung in raumwissenschaftliche und planungsrelevanten Themen (pp. 231-250). Wiesbaden: Springer. Link

Szepan, L. (2023). Making the "social business" work: Organizational identity as revolving stage. In M. May, S. Groth, & J. Müske (Eds.), Morality as organizational practice: Negotiating, performing, and navigating moral standards in contexts of work (pp. 125-136). Münster: Waxmann.

Tahiiev, A. (2023). Шиизм на постсоветском пространстве: влияние новых медиа / Shi’ism in the post-Soviet space: the influence of new media. In E. Muratova, & Z. Khabibullina (Eds.), Виртуальный ислам на постсоветском пространстве: киберсреда и религиозные авторитеты / Virtual Islam in the post-Soviet space: cyber environment and religious authorities. (pp. 80-108). Baku: Idrak. Link

Bass, M., Davis, C., Nedsreal, N., & Walendom, L. (2023). Why all the black women sit together on the U-Bahn. In S. Chatterjee, & P.-H. Lee (Eds.), Plural Feminisms: Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis (pp. 59-74). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Link

Amrith, M. (2023). Migrant eldercare workers. In S. Torres, & A. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook on Migration and Ageing. (pp. 217-227). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Link

Amrith, M., Sakti, V. K., & Sampaio, D. (2023). Introduction. In M. Amrith, V. K. Sakti, & D. Sampaio (Eds.), Aspiring in later life: Movements across time, space, and generations (pp. 1-16). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Link

Amrith, M. (2023). Letting go and looking ahead: The aspirations of middle-aged migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong. In M. Amrith, V. K. Sakti, & D. Sampaio (Eds.), Aspiring in later life: Movements across time, space, and generations. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Link

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Alumni News

2023
  • Arndt-Walter Emmerich | Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Hertfordshire
  • Annelies Kusters | Professor of Sociolinguistics at the School of Social Sciences at the Heriot-Watt University
  • Christine Lang | Assistant professor in Social Geography and Reflexive Migration Studies at Osnabrück University
  • Damian Omar Martinez | Research Fellow “María Zambrano” at the Department of Sociology, University of Murcia (Spain)
  • Sabine Mohamed | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University
  • Raphael Susewind | Associate Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Diao, Yin.  2023.  Faith by Aurality in China’s Ethnic Borderland. Media, Mobility, and Christianity at the Margins. Boydell and Brewer.
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781648250743/faith-by-aurality-in-chinas-ethnic-borderland/
Gupta, Radhika. 2023. “Freedom in Captivity: Negotiations of Belonging along Kashmir’s Frontier”.  Cambridge University Press” (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/freedom-in-captivity/8AF1C8BDD9BE3FECAB3D847A87CEDA90)
Liu, Jifeng. 2023. 族群身份與跨國網絡:馬來西亞砂拉越華人基督徒研究 (Ethnic Identities and Transnational Networks: Chinese Christians in Sarawak, Malaysia). Chinese Christian Literature Council (Taiwan).
Mahadev, Neena. 2023. Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka, Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/karma-and-grace/9780231205290 (discount with CUP20).
Vevaina, Leilah. 2023. Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of the City, Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/trust-matters
► Radhika Gupta was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant in 2023 for a project titled “Entangled Universals of Transnational Islamic Charity” (read more)
► Julia Martínez-Ariño was awarded the 2023 ISSR (International Society for Science and Religion) Best Book Award for her book "Urban Secularism."
► Ke-hsien Huang was awarded the ICAS Book Prize of Chinese Language Edition 2023 for his book  “危殆生活:無家者的社會世界與幫助網絡 (Precarious Living: Homeless People and the Helping Networks in Taiwan)“ 春山出版有限公司 SpringHill Publishing Ltd., 2021.
Sahana Udupa was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study small platform discourse. read more

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