All current projects


Ageing and (im)mobility: gendered experiences of growing old in Tajikistan in the context of mass labor migration (Swetlana Torno)

Ageing in displacement: East Timorese diasporas in Indonesia (Victoria Kumala Sakti)

Becoming Jewish Berlin-style (Vanessa Rau)

Being and Becoming Black – self-(re)presentation and embodiment and the (hidden) diversity of African migrants and refugees in German cities (Johanna M. Lukate)

Belonging on a continuum: legal status journeys and social membership (Ulrike Bialas)

Chinese Christian community and network in Germany (Jie Kang)

Climate displacement and diversification: changing patterns of migration and peri-urban settlement (Jamila Hamidu, Fidelis Udo)

Constructing livelihoods: older Cameroonians in times of mobility (Nele Wolter) 

Converting Muslim – Missionary movement of Chinese Protestant House Church (Jie Kang)

DivA · Diversity assent in urban Germany (Karen Schönwälder, Lucas Drouhot, Nicolas Fliess, Eloisa Harris and Steven Vertovec, in cooperation with Sören Petermann (Ruhr University Bochum)

Diversity and the afterlives of welcome in Italian mountain towns (Elisa Lanari)

Diversity, contestation and migration in education (Hania Sobhy)

ENCOUNTERS · ORA Joint Research Project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model" (Project leaders: Ben Gidley (Overall project lead & UK, London city lead), Matthias Koenig (Joint Germany lead, Frankfurt city lead), Anne-Sophie Lamine (France lead, Strasbourg city lead), Steven Vertovec (Joint Germany lead, Berlin city lead)

Foreign entrepreneurs in Tokyo's and Singapore's knowledge-intensive start-up sector (Helena Hof)

Forever 17: Coming of Age in the German Asylum System (Ulrike Bialas)

How do migrants in Germany make sense of economic inequality? (Margherita Cusmano)

Lived citizenship and uprising in the Middle East: Everyday politics, contestation and belonging (Hania Sobhy)

Love in times of superdiversity - negotiating difference and diversity in intimacy and sexuality (Vanessa Rau)

“Modernization” of Shia Islam (Akif Tahiiev)

Multiculturalism in Shi’ism: diversity of ethnic and religious identities among European Shias (Akif Tahiiev)

The new guards: Re-bordering the Southeast Mediterranean in an age of migration (Michalis Moutselos, Tihomir Sabchev, Steven Vertovec)

Organizing African identities in Germany: movements, migrations, and public positioning in the diaspora (Madeline J. Bass)

Political institutions and the challenge of diversity (Karen Schönwälder, Alex Street (now Caroll College, U.S.A.), Michalis Moutselos (now University of Cyprus, Nikosia) and Nicolas Fliess • Former staff members: Cihan Sinanoglu (DeZIM), Daniel Volkert)

Preservation of Ukrainian identity among female-refugees in Germany during the war 2022 (Yuliya Byelikova)

Retiring from temporary lives: ageing migrant labor in Asia (Megha Amrith)

The road ahead is paved with wireless networks: refugees, mobile technology, and adaptation in Germany (Jessica Rosenfeld)

Super-diversity (Steven Vertovec)

ZOMiDi · Civil society organizations and the challenges of migration and diversity: Agents of Change. Teilprojekt "Behinderung/sexuelle Minderheiten" (Karen Schönwälder, Vanessa Rau, Sanja Bökle, in cooperation with Helen Baykara-Krumme [now University Duisburg-Essen])

 

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