Research cluster B4: The economic dimension: work, entrepreneurship, economic integration
Contact
Cluster leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Bommes
Institute: IMIS, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies
University: University of Osnabrück
Address: Neuer Graben 19/21
Postal Code: D – 49069 Osnabrück
Country: Germany
Email address: mbommes@uos.de
Cluster assistant: Maren Wilmes, mawilmes@uni-osnabrueck.de
Work Programme until October 2008
The work of B4 is subdivided into two sub-clusters with corresponding conferences relating to previous work and aiming at new research questions. The first conference, Migrant entrepreneurship – conceptions and definitions, is supposed to continue and deepen the items discussed in the workshop Quantitative and qualitative research on ethnic entrepreneurship (Osnabrück 2007), which revealed the need to look in depth at definitions and major concepts and approaches to this subject. The conference will be co-organised with the Task Group 4.4 of the EU network of excellence SUS.DIV (Sustainable Development in a Diverse World). The second conference, Social networks and economic integration of immigrants incorporates questions regarding the coherence between social networks, neighbourhood and economic integration of immigrants. This cluster will finally prepare a research proposal on Foggy social structures: informal economy and illegal migration. More info:...
