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Göttinger Literaturherbst

Göttinger Literaturherbst

October 22, 2024
In a talk with journalist Georg Dietz, Steven Vertovec spoke about his book ‘Superdiversität’ (Suhrkamp Verlag 2024). The term coined by Vertovec helps to understand how the increasing diversification processes in modern societies develop. The discussion was held in English.
Insights@MPIMMG

Insights@MPIMMG

November 06, 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: Vanessa Rau on “Love and diversity”.
 
   
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.
MPI-MMG in Dialogue
In the MPI-MMG in Dialogue series, Chang Won Lee, Gracia Liu-Farrer, Anja Weiss and Junjia Ye will discuss ‘Migration, Retention & Incorporation of the Highly Skilled’ on 18 December 2024. The event will be moderated by Helena Hof.
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

QuaMaFa Closing Workshop

Final event of collaborative project “Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia” (QuaMaFa)
Dec 18, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Dec 19, 2024 03:00 PM
MPI-MMG, Goettingen

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Migration, Retention & Incorporation of the Highly Skilled"

Public discussion
Dec 18, 2024 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11

ALUMNI HOUR | Julia Martínez-Ariño (University of Groningen): "Building an Academic Career as a Work-in-Progress: Insights from my 'Unplanned' Journey"

Julia Martínez-Ariño (University of Groningen)
Jan 15, 2025 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Zoom Meeting

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

Workshop organized by Goran Janev, Monika Palmberger, Steven Vertovec, and Jeremy F. Walton
Jan 29, 2025 - Feb 1, 2025
Harnack House Berlin

MPI-MMG @ Conferences

▪   Swetlana Torno: "Intergenerational care, citizenship and future making: Contemplating the mobility of Tajik seniors between Tajikistan and Russia"
Les études sur l'Asie centrale: pluridisciplinarité et connexions d'un champ
December 11-12, 2024 | Paris


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

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/10.1007/978-3-031-64725-3
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://www.bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenreihe/519287/religionsverfassungsrecht-revisited/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/schooling-the-nation/C17A639E1EF9E1448842B6ACEA6216F5
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-eu-migrant-generation-in-asia
https://profilebooks.com/work/how-to-live-with-each-other/

Journal Articles

Gidley, B., Everett, S. S., Druez, E., Ebbiary, A., Emmerich, A., Peretz, D., et al. (2024). Off and on stage interactions: Muslim-Jewish encounter in urban Europe. Ethnicities, OnlineFirst, 0-0. Link

Udo, F., Bhanye, J., Daoudiallo, B., & Naidu, M. (2024). Evaluating the sustainability of local women's climate change adaptation strategies in Durban, South Africa: A feminist political ecology and intersectionality perspective. Sustainable Development, 0, 1-16. Link

Lukate, J. M. (2024). Becoming black? African migrants’ social identity constructions and experiences of racialization in Germany. Identity, 1-19. Link

Hof, H., Muranaka, A., & Park, J. J. (2024). Employment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging East Asian skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants’ access to the labor market. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 0(0), 1-23. Link

Vertovec, S. (2024). Superdiversity and the quest for complexity thinking: A critique of the reductionist approaches to migration and integration. Current issues in migration research: CIMR, 1(1), 32-34. Link

Amr, N., Bass, M., Bialas, U., Lanari, E., Mitchell, K., Schoon, E. W., et al. (2024). Foreclosure, disclosure, and political engagement: A collaborative reflection on scholar-activism in the neoliberal university. Migration and Society, 7(1), 194-205. Link

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

Emmerich, A. (2024). Jewish-Muslim friendship networks: A study of intergenerational boundary work in postwar Germany. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1-29. Link

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Contributions to a collected Edition

Tahiiev, A. (2024). Shia Muslims of Ukraine during the Russian invasion. In E. Muratova, & N. Zasanska (Eds.), Minorities at war: cultural identity and resilience in Ukraine. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group. Link

Vertovec, S. (2023). Jan Blommaert's inspiration. In L. Lessard-Phillips, A. Papoutsi, N. Sigona, & P. Ziss (Eds.), Migration, displacement and diversity: the IRiS anthology (pp. 100-103). Oxford: Oxford Publ. Services; Univ. of Birmingham; IRiS. Link

Ziss, P. (2023). Futures denied: Temporalities of citizenship and the naturalization of Syrians in Turkey. In L. Lessard-Phillips, A. Papoutsi, N. Sigona, & P. Ziss (Eds.), Migration, displacement and diversity: the IRiS anthology (pp. 199-203). Oxford: Oxford Publ. Services; Univ. of Birmingham; IRiS. Link

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

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

Martijn van den Brink (2024). Legislative Authority and Interpretation in the European Union. Oxford University Press.
Bob van der Linden (2024). Romantic Nationalism in India: Cultivation of Culture and the Global Circulation of Ideas. Brill.
Seyla Benhabib and Ayelet Shachar (forthcoming in December 2024). Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders. Cambridge University Press. 

Dana Schmalz (forthcoming in January 2025). Das Bevölkerungsargument: Wie die Sorge vor zu vielen Menschen Politik beeinflusst. Suhrkamp.
Bob van der Linden (forthcoming in 2025). Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity: Art, Music and Philology. Routledge. 

Appointment / Career

2024
  • Jin-Heon Jung | Professor at the National Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification, Korea
  • Farhan Samanani | Lecturer in Social Justice at the King’s College London
► Dora Sampaio was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project RETIREWEL: Retirement across countries: A tripartite analysis of the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry.

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