Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

Für unsere Nachwuchsförderung suchen wir eine neue Assistenz als Impress Officer (m/w/d)! Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter dem Link: https://bit.ly/4f0yVrk

🎊We are thrilled to announce that the 22nd edition of the Annual Conference "Decentering Migration Studies" will take place in Paris–Aubervilliers @ Institut Convergences Migrations!
✏️Submissions for contributions are open from 3rd of July 2024
➡️Find out more: https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/2117-22nd-imiscoe-annual-conference

🎉Excited to announce the Call for Papers for the 2025
Spring Conference organised by the Migration and Globalisation
🗓️17-19 March 2025
✏️Deadline for paper submissions: 6 September 2024
🔎Find out more: https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/2116-2025-imiscoe-spring-conference

in : Join our Roundtable Discussion on the implications of the new Pact on Migration and Asylum & the European Parliament elections with Sabine Hess, our Alumnus Michalis Moutselos, Marcus Engler, Tihomir Sabchev, and our post doc Tabea Scharrer, who will moderate.
Details: https://t.ly/8i4E0

"There are models & supermodels, powers & superpowers, stars & superstars. Without the suggestion of uniqueness & corresponding rarity, the prefix would not mark a meaningful difference. But what sense does it make to add 'super' to the social phenomenon of diversity?" Gerald Wagner writes a book review of Steven Vertovec's Superdiversität for the FAZ.Net - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German & paywalled) https://t.ly/UoFgq

Steven Vertovec' „Superdiversität“ Komplexität als Versprechen: Steven Vertovec bringt sein Konzept der Superdiversität für die Migrationsforschung in Stellung.

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Jennifer Elrick, from McGill University, as a Scholar in Residence. During her stay she will lay the foundations for a new project that will explore public perceptions of different immigrants, categorised as “high skilled”, “low skilled”, “family members” & “refugees”.

To find out more about Professor Elrick, please visit: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/person/134911/2553

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We're sharing interactive visualizations of in NY. Come & see the social of city @ Lichtkultur, Theaterstraße 3, until 18:00. Our colleagues Dr Norbert Winnige & Alexei Matveev will be happy to greet you there!

Fascinating interview with Xifan Yang and Steven Vertovec in DIE ZEITto mark the publication of with Suhrkamp Verlag They discuss the book, the concept of superdiversity, social complexity and much more! (In German with Paywall)

Steven Vertovec: "Ich zucke zusammen, wenn Leute den Begriff Multikulturalismus nutzen" Wir leben im Zeitalter der Superdiversität, sagt der Ethnologe Steven Vertovec. Unsere Gesellschaften seien sozial viel komplexer, als Politiker oft denken.

Thank you to our Head Librarian Thomas Gerdes & Christof Wittmaack for an informative talk on , which archives qualitative social science research data from all disciplines in order to make them available for scientific reuse t.ly/1Jh1C

Happy to share this article featuring our Alumnus Arndt Emmerich in the FAZ.NET - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German) on: "Juden und Muslime sind keine Feinde".

To find out more about Arndt and his work, please check here: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/person/111139/2541

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/frankfurt-juedisch-muslimische-netzwerke-im-bahnhofsviertel-19624666.html

Dr. Arndt-Walter Emmerich | Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of , we are posting some references to thematically relevant contributions that have emerged from our researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

This article by Karen Schönwälder shows how Germany practiced a racist immigration policy in the post-war period. In spite of massive labor recruitment in the 1950s to the 1970s , workers from from Africa & Asia, including Black European citizens, were not welcome and actively excluded. Germany would today be an even more plural society had this not been the case.

To find out more about Prof Schönwälder's work, please visit: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/645471/schoenwaelder

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0141987042000177324

Why Germany’s guestworkers were largely Europeans: The selective principles of post-war labour recruitment policy The article demonstrates that West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s not only recruited millions of foreign workers but also systematically excluded potential migrants of African and Asian origins. Lik...

On the International Day for the Elimination of , we're sharing relevant contributions. This article by Maike Isaac, & shows how many low skilled migrant workers in the agricultural & care work sectors in countries of the Global North experience marginalization due to their overlapping social positions of , , ascribed , & . It argues that the COVID-19 pandemic promoted a revaluation of the legal statuses of “essential” migrant workers & thereby represented a small step toward reducing their marginalization.

How COVID-19 may alleviate the multiple marginalization of racialized migrant workers (2021). How COVID-19 may alleviate the multiple marginalization of racialized migrant workers. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 44, Themed Issue: Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times, pp. 851-863.