Doctoral programme
"Border formations in migration society"
Doctoral programme
"Border formations in migration society"
The doctoral programme "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen" is a cross-university programme with a focus on cultural studies, in which doctoral candidates find excellent conditions for writing their dissertations. It is based on the integration of already established and nationally and internationally visible research and institutions in the field of migration and border research at the Oldenburg, Göttingen and Osnabrück locations involved. It combines the cultural studies-oriented migration research perspectives gathered at the Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC) at the University of Oldenburg with the main areas of work of the Laboratory for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research at the University of Göttingen, which contributes expertise in border studies in the narrower sense to the doctoral programme, and the interdisciplinary focus on migration and integration processes of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück.
The programme offers a framework for doctoral projects that deal with the connection between situated practices of actors, institutions and structures in the production of border formations and the constitution of orders of belonging in historical and contemporary migration society constellations. Through a differentiated description and theorisation, the programme analyses these complex but often unquestioned contexts and thus also contributes to the development and reflection of methods in migration research. To this end, the programme integrates already established and nationally and internationally visible research and institutions in the field of migration and border research at the Oldenburg, Göttingen and Osnabrück locations, thus creating an ideal environment for working on interdisciplinary doctoral projects and thus making a significant contribution to strengthening and further developing a regionally, nationally and internationally significant research focus on migration in Lower Saxony.
The doctoral programme offers doctoral candidates
- an ideal environment for writing their dissertations, both through structured modules for in-depth specialisation and through cross-location and interdisciplinary supervision;
- a forum for the establishment of an interdisciplinary dialogue and the development of a specialist and interdisciplinary network and
- options for acquiring key qualifications that enable doctoral students to position themselves in an increasingly diversified labour market and meet a variety of job profiles (in academia and beyond).