New Director Appointed
The Max Planck Society has appointed sociologist Prof. Dr. Steffen Mau (Humboldt University of Berlin) as Director. He will establish a new department focusing on Inequality, Transformation and Conflict.
New Director Appointed
The Max Planck Society has appointed political scientist Prof. Dr. Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam) as Director. She will establish a new department focusing on Political Institutions and Conflict.
About the Institute
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.
INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS
The focus here is on the state at different levels, social and legal categorizations and meso-level organisations. Do organisations and political institutions reflect diversity? Are they open or closed to change?
SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND ATTITUDES
How do different groups perceive the diversification of their cities, neighbourhoods, societies? How inclusive or exclusive are encounters and social interactions and what determines that?
INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
Dynamics surrounding migration and diversity take many forms. What do the experiences of migration and diversification mean to individuals? How is that determined by age, gender, racism? What identifications develop in different contexts and interactions?
INSIGHTS@mpimmg
In INSIGHTS@mpimmg, our researchers give brief 3 minute insights into their work: what they research, how they do it and why it is significant.
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Journal Articles
Emmerich, A. (2026). Jewish Sopranos in Germany: A study of Jewish Muslim cooperation in the post-migrant television series The Zweiflers. Cultural Sociology, 0(0): OnlineFirst, pp. 1-21. Link
Lang, C. (2025). Politics of belonging and urban space: Civil society interventions in French and German cities. Urban Geography, 1-23. Link
Udo, F., & Naidu, M. (2025). African indigenous performances, collective memory, and identity in Post-apartheid uMlazi Township, South Africa.Journal of Asian and African Studies, 00(0), 1-18. Link
Petermann, S., Schönwälder, K., Harris, E., & Cusmano, M. (2025). Diffuse Vielfalt: Migration in individuellen Wahrnehmungen und Kategorisierungen. Soziale Welt, 76(3), 215-243. Link Link zum Online-Anhang
Ursula Moffitt, U., Lukate, J. M., & Veen, D. v. (2025). Incorporating racialization, anti-blackness, and critical whiteness into European psychology: Moving beyond “migrant” integration. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 233(3), 206-216. Link
Cusmano, M. (2025). Traces of the past, visions of the future: How asylum seekers navigate legal im/mobilization. SocArXiv Papers, 1-20. Link
Emmerich, A., & Kalender, M. T. (2025). Islam at the margins: Salafi and progressive Muslims contesting the mainstream in Germany. Religions, online, pp. 1-18. Link
Fiń, A. (2025). Semantic framework for creation of migration photography and their role in visual governance in migration. Ethnicities, online, pp. 1-23. Link
Emmerich, A. (2025). Biodeutsch - (Un)word of the year: Emancipation or Exclusion? A cultural-sociology perspective. European Sociologist, 1(52), 1-3. Link
Sakti, Victoria K. (2025). Older refugee perspectives on death, remembrance, and burial: The East Timorese in Indonesia. Journal of Refugee Studies, 38(1), 66-79. Link
Fliess, N., & Schönwälder, K. (2025). Widespread, but also popular? Exploring attitudes to diversity policies. European Political Science Review, first view, 1-19. Link
Petermann, S., Harris, E., & Schönwälder, K. (2025). Understanding support for diversity: The role of fundamental beliefs. Warum Vielfalt befürwortet wird: Zur Bedeutung grundlegender Überzeugungen. KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Link
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