The doctoral programme 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 work focus 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.

In order to clarify the institutional anchoring and embedding of the programme at the locations, both content-related and institutional linkage and connection options at the three institutions are explained.