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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.

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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

Fieldwork Photo Gallery

The collection of photographs on our website represents the fieldwork activities of our researchers. All social-science research at the Institute, particularly that requiring informed consent and involving visual materials, is designed to follow the ethical guidelines formulated by the American Anthropological Association.

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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 Presentation

For 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.

News & Updates

Scapegoating in times of Corona

Institute Director Steven Vertovec gave a live television interview on Deutsche Welle and PBS America to comment on the coronavirus pandemic, xenophobia and group stigmas.

DWnews TV Interview Thursday, 7th May 2020 with Steven Vertovec, conducted by Anchor Brent Goff

Enduring indifference and the vital labour of migrant domestic workers

April 29, 2020

A Blog by Megha Amrith

This blog was originally published on 27 April 2020 in the Identities COVID-19 Blog Series.

Migrant domestic workers in Singapore have always faced multiple restrictions on their mobilities and rights: their stays are governed by the most restrictive of work permits which require them to live in employers’ homes. Now, their routines have been overturned by the pandemic and trust that has been built over long periods of time has revealed itself to be deeply fragile as new anxieties, coupled with intensifications of existing anxieties, come to the fore.

The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration & Mobility

In her remarkably timely new book, Ayelet Shachar analyzes the return of borders & their radical transformation. Essential for understanding government responses to people on the move, Shachar's vivid description, analytical precision and reasoned persuasion combine to challenge conventional wisdoms about "borders" and how they work. The result: exceptional insights into how migration control can be more just. The Shifting Border offers an indispensable roadmap to immigration and refugee debates all around the world.

Events

Due to the coronavirus, there are currently no public events at the institute.

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Recent MMG Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Issues

Valerie Hänsch (ed), Michael Stasik (ed) and Serawit Bekele Debele (ed), "Temporalities of Waiting in Africa", in Critical African Studies, (2020), Vol. 12, Issue 1. Link

Journal Articles

Schader, M. (2020). Externalization or imitation: the 2015–16 asylum-seeker immigration as a catalyst for local structural change. Ethnic and Racial Studies. doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1763417. Link

Schiller, M., Martínez-Ariño, J., & Bolíbar, M. (2020). A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities. Ethnic and Racial Studies (Special Issue: Diversity in local political practice). DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1738524. Link

Moutselos, M. (2020). What explains diversity-policy adoption? Policy entrepreneurs and advocacy coalitions in two French cities. Ethnic and Racial Studies (Special Issue: Diversity in local political practice) . DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1751861. Link

Tandé, A. (2020): Cultural policies mixing commonality and difference? The case of public libraries in French cities. Ethnic and Racial Studies (Special Issue: Diversity in local political practice) . DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1743334. Link

Tayob, S. (2020). Muslim food culture. Sociocultural Anthropology. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.131. Link

Loiselle, M.-E., Farrall, J., Michaelsen, C., Prantl, J., & Whalan, J. (2020). Elected member influence in the United Nations Security Council. Leiden Journal of International Law, 33(1), 101-115. Link

Contributions to a collected Edition

Koenig, M. (2020). Emile Durkheim and the Sociology of Religion. In H. Joas, & A. Pettenkofer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Émile Durkheim. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Link

Kang, J. (2020). Rural to Urban Protestant House Churches in China. In S. Feuchtwang (Ed.). Handbook on Religion in China (pp. 407-430). Edward Elgar Publisher.

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.

Working Papers

WP 20-04
Steven Vertovec:
Considering the work of ‘integration’
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WP 20-05
Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria):
Religion and Bioregionalism in Cascadia: The Trouble with Categories
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Online Lectures

Here you will find videos from lectures given by distinguished researchers at the MPI MMG.

Blogs

Researchers from the institute describe the development of their projects and the challenges, delights and frustrations of conducting social scientific research.

Diversity Interviews

Here you will find transcripts of interviews with distinguished scientists, led by staff members of the MMG.

MPI-MMG linked Journals

NEW DIVERSITIES

New Diversities is an international, peer reviewed, scholarly and professional journal, published by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

Global Networks

Global Networks publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research on global networks, transnational affairs and practices, and their relation to wider theories of globalization. The journal provides a forum for discussion, debate and the refinement of key ideas in this emerging field.

CityScapes

CityScapes is a 144 page biannual print publication. It is a hybrid of forms, simultaneously invested in scholarly discourse around contemporary urbanism in Africa and the global south, as much as individual everyday experiences and activities of the multitude of actors that are actively involved in shaping cities across the continent and the rest of the developing world.

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