Members, Associates and Guests

Here you can find a brief portrait of all CeMig members and affiliates including a link to their full profiles.

Secondary Members

Secondary members can be academics who teach and do research in the field of migration and work at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen as university lecturers, academic staff or employees in technology and administration.

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

Discipline: Sociology of Rural Regions
Key areas of work: Consequences of demographic change on rural areas
Reseach regions: Hessen, Thüringen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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Faculty of Humanities

Discipline: Social History
Key areas of work: Migration and history of work, Global History, Modern Indian History
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Discipline: Intercultural German Studies

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Discipline: Intercultural German Studies
Key areas of work: Intercultural research and cultural science xenology: connections between science/ migration/ languages, international science communication and interculturality in literature(science)
Research regions: Balkan, Eastern Europe, Germany

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Discipline: Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology

Key areas of work: Criminalization, gender, punishment and prison, legal and political anthropology (including citizenship, NGOs, social movements)
Research regions: Germany/Europe

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Discipline: Intercultural German Studies
Key areas of work: Relationships between internalisation, migration, language(s), language policy and language mediation; literature/film and interculturality/migration
Research regions: Europe and India

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Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology

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Discipline: Intercultural German Studies
Key areas of work: Interkulturelle Sprach- und Literaturdidaktik
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Discipline: English Literature and Cultural Studies
Key areas of work: Postcolonial literature and theory, transcultural literature and theory, global literature
Research regions: Europe, in particular UK; Nigeria; India; North America

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Faculty of Geoscience and Geography

Discipline: Human geography
Key areas of work: Social geography of sustainable resource use
Research regions: Germany, Indonesia

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Faculty of Law

Discipline: Law

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Discipline: Law, Criminology

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Discipline: Civil Law, Labor Law and Social Law

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Discipline: Public Law

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Discipline: Public Law
Key areas of work: Climate Change, "Climate Refugees", EU Law, Underage Migrants
Research regions:Europe, Germany

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Faculty of Social Sciences

Discipline: Sociology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Key areas of work: Borders, border zones, border regimes; flight; transnational migration; labour migration; postcolonial contexts; Global South; biographical research; ethnography; interpretative methods
Research regions: Spain / North Africa; Israel; Germany

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Discipline: Ethnology
Key areas of work: Religion, diaspora, the relationship of religion to alternative forms of social organization and stratification in migration contexts. Religion and media.
Research regions: Indian Ocean, in particular Mauritius and India

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Discipline: Social and Cultural Anthropology
Key areas of work: Academic Coordination & Communication; Mobilities, Tourism and Urban-Rural (Labour) Migration
Research regions: Southeast Asia, esp. Thailand

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Discipline: Cultural Sociologist
Key areas of work: Migration sociology, quantitative methods, transnationalisation processes
Research regions: Germany, especially Göttingen

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Discipline: Social and Cultural Anthropology
Key areas of work: Migration and Climate Change, Migration and Emotions

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Discipline: Social Sciences

Key areas of work: Homelessness and migration, phenomena of social exclusion and inequality, theories and research on racism, methods of qualitative social research.
Research regions: Europe

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Discipline: Political Science, International Relations

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Discipline: Euroculture
Key areas of work: Identity, Belonging and Participation in Europe; Europe in a Global Context
Research regions: Europe, North America, Middle East

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Discipline: Sociology of Work
Key areas of work: Corporate integration of refugees; migration & informal/precarious work
Research regions: Germany, India

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Discipline: Religious Studies, Sociology
Key areas of work: Religious migrant organisations; change of religion in the context of migration; religious and cultural contacts
Research regions: Germany: Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region; Lower Saxony

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Discipline: Sociology
Key areas of work: Qualitative method, biographical and generational research, migration, ethnicity, socio-political conflicts, collective violence, collective dream processing
Research regions: Brazil, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Florida, Ghana, Uganda, Spain, United Kingdom

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Discipline: Sociology
Key areas of work: Poverty and housing emergencies: social exclusion
Research regions: Germany

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Discipline: Sociology
Key areas of work: Refugees; belonging; migration in the context of ethno-political conflicts; interpretative methods in migration research
Research regions: Syria; Israel/Palestine; Border region: Spain/Morocco; Germany

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Faculty of Business and Economics

Discipline: Economics; Development Economics
Key areas of work: Impact of migration on income distribution and poverty
Research regions: Central America

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Discipline: Economic and social history
Key areas of work: Historical migration research, migrant working and living environments in contemporary historical change, immigrant entrepreneurship
Research regions: Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Federal Republic)

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Discipline: Chair of Human Resources Management and Asian Business

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Discipline: Development Economics
Key areas of work: Development cooperation and migration, humanitarian crises and migration
Research regions: Asia (esp. China), global

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Discipline: Development Economics
Key areas of work: Development aid and refugee flows, political outcomes of refugee flows, conflict and migration
Research regions: Global studies, Country focus: Afghanistan

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Discipline: Development Economics

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Discipline: Economics
Key areas of work: Causes and effects of migration
Research regions: esp. Central and South America

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Discipline: Economics, CeMIS

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Student Members

Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology
Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology

Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology


Associates

Discipline: Sociology, Political Science
Key areas of work: German and European asylum and residence law; migration and refugee law. In addition, Reza is a visiting scientist at CeMig from April 2022-March 2024, conducting research in the project Public Health and Migration.
Research regions: Germany, Europe

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Discipline: Sociology
Key areas of work: Labor and migration
Research regions: Germany, Lower Saxony

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Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology
Key areas of work: Citizenship, urban citizenship, Activism and movement, Civil Society, Policy, Urban Governance.
Research regions: China

Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology

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Discipline: Euroculture: Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context; International Law and Legal Studies
Key areas of work: protection, gender, migration and terrorism
Research regions: Middle East and North Africa, Africa, Europe

Discipline: Ethnologie
Key areas of work: Material culture, home-making, flight, postmigration; phenomenology, everyday spaces, gender; urban ethnology
Research regions: Europe

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Discipline: Educational Science, Social Psychology/Anthropology, and Gender Studies

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Discipline: Sociology
Key areas of work: Integration, education, training, work, legal status, integration policy
Research regions: Germany

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Discipline: Interkulturelle Germanistik
Key areas of work: Linguistik.
Research regions: Germany

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Discipline: Philosophy, Bioethics
Key areas of work: Ethical issues and challenges of intercultural communication, social diversity in health care in the context of dementia care for people with migrant background.
Research regions: Germany

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Guests at CeMig

Guests are external scientists who are temporarily affiliated with CeMig for research or doctoral projects.
Research project: Return Migration, Collective Memory and Transnational Spaces: The Case of Turkey-Germany (title)
Research project: Lea Cejvan is a recent graduate of Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN, USA) and has a background in political science, history, international relations, and immigration policy. Her thesis work was a historical summary about the lives of Bosnian immigrants in Lea Cejvan’s hometown, the project she brings with the Fulbright program will take her research questions further: She is interested in the socio-economic circumstances of these migrants, their experiences in Germany, and the cultural, linguistic, and even religious pressures that come along with their position in German society. She believes that there must be a closer documentation of the migrant process and its effects upon the politics and society of the host country.
Research project: Kari Anne K. Drangsland is a human geographer and holds a PhD. in interdisciplinary gender studies. Her thesis “Working to ‘Wait Well’ – Exploring the temporalities of irregular migration in Germany”, is based on one year of fieldwork in Hamburg (2017/2018). The thesis explores the role of time and temporality in the production of migrant illegality and in tolerated migrants’ embodied navigations of life and waiting in Germany. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her present research is part of the international research project “Temporary Protection as a Durable Solution – the Return Turn in Asylum Policies in Europe” (TemPro). She just ended an ethnographic fieldwork in Norway and will in the spring of 2022 set forth the ethnographic research in Hamburg. During seven months in Hamburg where she will explore how temporary protection is configured in law, policy, and everyday practices of state bureaucrats and as well as how it effects refugees.
Research project: During her time as a visiting scholar at CeMig, she will complete the publication cycle and share her findings from three research projects on institutional racism in the German welfare state - including the research she conducted as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin on "Care Ethics and the Production of Racial and Moral Others," and two collaborative follow-up projects on discrimination in health care commissioned by Stiftung Mercator and the German Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, respectively.
Research project: Mark Simon has joined the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology since May 2022. As a political sociologist he has taught before at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka), a non-state university that provides educational programs in partnership with the University of Manchester. His research projects are focused on the issues of political accommodation of diversity and artistic self-expressions of migrants in European and post-Soviet contexts. Under his research fellowship at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, he is exploring the networks of solidarity between post-Soviet artists forced to migrate to Germany in recent years.