Participants: Dr Lydia Potts, Anika Walke, M.A.

In the field of migration research, on the one hand, research projects from the 1990s were continued; these are based on empirical-qualitative approaches and address, amongst other things, biographical processes in the context of flight and migration. This has resulted in research by early-career researchers and the publication of articles. Furthermore, research activities in this priority area also included teaching and learning research, through which the centre took the lead in establishing the European Joint Master’s degree programme in Migration and Intercultural Relations (first intake in the winter semester 2006/07).
International co-operation also forms the basis of our work in migration research: amongst other things, the conference “Globalisation and Women’s Work in South Asia and the EU”, which focused on gender and migration, was organised in co-operation with an Indian university. Early-career female researchers have held fellowships in relevant fields, including at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Sana’a University in Yemen.

Key publications:

Potts, Lydia (2006): Figures of the Border and Transition. Representations of Femininity and Nation from a Transcultural Perspective. In: Adorf, Sigrid et al. (eds.): Mission Statements, Self-Images, Options. Concepts of Sociocultural Representations.

Potts, Lydia/Krüger, Dorothea (2005): Single Migrant Mothers in Germany – Poverty as a Constant? An Exploration of Empirical Data, Statistics and Research Approaches. In: Ernst, Waltraud (ed.): Life and Livelihood. Gender Constructions through Work, Münster