Standing Committees Blogs
Exciting new from the Standing Committee "Reflexivities in Migration Studies"! The Special Issue "Towards reflexivity in the study of mobility and diversity: Theories, positionality, and the political economy of knowledge production", published in the...
We are delighted to announce the publication of the book Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies. Pitfalls and Alternatives. It is edited by Prof. Dr. {expert}Janine Dahinden|||{/expert} und Prof. Dr. {expert}Andreas...
We are delighted to announce the publication of the book Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies. Pitfalls and Alternatives. It is edited by Prof. Dr. {expert}Janine Dahinden|||{/expert} and Prof. Dr. {expert}Andreas...
The notion of migration crisis has become pervasive in scholarly, media, and political migration discourses, with significant impact on the way international migration is understood and responded to. Despite its ubiquity, the concept is vaguely defined...
01.07.2025
by {expert}|3185|1|{/expert} Field research is the process of collecting data and developing theory through direct interaction with people and their lifeworlds. It is a unique and often intensive, challenging experience. In this note, I reflect on half...
Podcast news! {expert}Janine Dahinden|||{/expert}, co-director of the Standing Committee "Reflexivities in Migration Studies", discusses together with Manos Dias-Abey the question of how people become ‘migrants’. Episode 3 of the MMB podcast ‘ Migration...
05.11.2024
by Lori Wilkinson , PhD, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada This blog is based on a presentation I gave at the 3 rd Annual Meth@Mig Workshop in Mannheim in April 2024. Research Ethics Boards wield...
22.07.2024
by {expert}|4329|2|{/expert} Besides serving as a melting pot with residents from 170 nations and 43 percent of its population having a migration background, Mannheim was also the host city for migration researchers from all around the world on April...
Transnational families are families whose members are dispersed across two or more countries and who share a sense of collective familyhood across borders (Bryceson and Vuorela 2002). Doing family across borders is a growing form of family that has...
Around one year ago, I set out for my fieldwork in Jamaica . My PhD project seeks to understand how the Chinese community in Jamaica experiences and understands love. I see love both as an analytical category through which to catch a glimpse of...