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
Prof. Dr. Claudia Neu
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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Key areas of work: Consequences of demographic change on rural areas
Reseach regions: Hessen, Thüringen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Faculty of Law
Nicola Adam
Discipline: Public Law
Key areas of work: Climate Change, "Climate Refugees", EU Law, Underage Migrants
Research regions:Europe, Germany
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Key areas of work: Climate Change, "Climate Refugees", EU Law, Underage Migrants
Research regions:Europe, Germany
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Faculty of Humanities
Prof. Dr. Ravi Ahuja
Discipline: Social History
Key areas of work: Migration and history of work, Global History, Modern Indian History
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Key areas of work: Migration and history of work, Global History, Modern Indian History
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Discipline: Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology
Key areas of work: Migration and border regime research, trauma research, anthropology of emotions; migration and public health. Reza Bayat is a research assistant at the research group Public Health and Migration.
Research regions: Germany, Europe
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Key areas of work: Migration and border regime research, trauma research, anthropology of emotions; migration and public health. Reza Bayat is a research assistant at the research group Public Health and Migration.
Research regions: Germany, Europe
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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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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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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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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: Intercultural German Studies
Key areas of work: Interkulturelle Sprach- und Literaturdidaktik
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Key areas of work: Interkulturelle Sprach- und Literaturdidaktik
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Faculty of Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr
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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Theology
Prof. Dr. Bernd Schröder
Discipline: Religion teaching
Key areas of work: Intercultural learning in religious education at school; religious education ecumenics
Research regions: Germany
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Key areas of work: Intercultural learning in religious education at school; religious education ecumenics
Research regions: Germany
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Discipline: Religious Studies
Key areas of work: Religion and politics, national and religious identities, intertwined and global historical approaches
Research regions: India, Europe, North America
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Key areas of work: Religion and politics, national and religious identities, intertwined and global historical approaches
Research regions: India, Europe, North America
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Faculty of Business and Economics
Dr. Adriana Cardozo
Discipline: Economics; Development Economics
Key areas of work: Impact of migration on income distribution and poverty
Research regions: Central America
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Key areas of work: Impact of migration on income distribution and poverty
Research regions: Central America
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Discipline: Development Economics
Key areas of work: Migration and remittances, asylum application determinants
Research regions: Latein America, Iberian Peninsula
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Key areas of work: Migration and remittances, asylum application determinants
Research regions: Latein America, Iberian Peninsula
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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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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: Development Economics
Key areas of work: Development cooperation and migration, humanitarian crises and migration
Research regions: Asia (esp. China), global
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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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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: Economics
Key areas of work: Causes and effects of migration
Research regions: esp. Central and South America
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Key areas of work: Causes and effects of migration
Research regions: esp. Central and South America
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Student Members
Marlene Bergner
Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, Legal Studies
Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology
Discipline: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology
Associates
Dr. Zümrüt Alpinar Sencan
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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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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Discipline: Sociology
Key areas of work: Labor and migration
Research regions: Germany, Lower Saxony
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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
Key areas of work: Citizenship, urban citizenship, Activism and movement, Civil Society, Policy, Urban Governance.
Research regions: China
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
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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Key areas of work: Material culture, home-making, flight, postmigration; phenomenology, everyday spaces, gender; urban ethnology
Research regions: Europe
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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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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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Key areas of work: Linguistik.
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. Ece Çim (October 2020-October 2021)
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.
Dr. Medea Badashvili serves as an Associate Professor at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, where she also heads the Master Program in Gender Studies. Holding a PhD in Human Geography, BA and MA in Socio-Economic and Political Geography, her research interests encompass a wide array of topics, including labor migration, refugee flows, gender equality, domestic violence, women’s economic and political empowerment. Her extensive teaching portfolio covers the courses on gender and migration, feminist theory, global health politics, agency, gender in Eastern European and post-soviet countries and many others.
Abstract of her research: The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 has triggered a global political and security upheaval, causing a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and neighboring regions. Over 8 million Ukrainians have sought refuge in neighboring EU countries and post-soviet states, like Georgia. My research will focus on Ukrainian refugees in Germany, where over a million finding shelter and 180,000 in Georgia. Refugees, mainly women, children, and the elderly, face challenges of integration and adaptation. The study aims to explore the life narratives of Ukrainian refugees, particularly in women-headed households, to understand how displacement reshapes power dynamics and family decision-making. By examining issues of integration, assimilation, and maintaining cultural norms, the research seeks to provide insights into the challenges faced by refugees in adapting to their new societies in Germany and Georgia. This comparative study will contribute to understanding the experiences of Ukrainian refugees in different contexts, shedding light on their struggles and resilience in the face of displacement.
Kontakt: medea.badashvili@uni-goettingen.de; medea.badashvili@tsu.ge
Abstract of her research: The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 has triggered a global political and security upheaval, causing a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and neighboring regions. Over 8 million Ukrainians have sought refuge in neighboring EU countries and post-soviet states, like Georgia. My research will focus on Ukrainian refugees in Germany, where over a million finding shelter and 180,000 in Georgia. Refugees, mainly women, children, and the elderly, face challenges of integration and adaptation. The study aims to explore the life narratives of Ukrainian refugees, particularly in women-headed households, to understand how displacement reshapes power dynamics and family decision-making. By examining issues of integration, assimilation, and maintaining cultural norms, the research seeks to provide insights into the challenges faced by refugees in adapting to their new societies in Germany and Georgia. This comparative study will contribute to understanding the experiences of Ukrainian refugees in different contexts, shedding light on their struggles and resilience in the face of displacement.
Kontakt: medea.badashvili@uni-goettingen.de; medea.badashvili@tsu.ge