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

In the field of migration research, work contexts from the 1990s were continued, which are based on empirical-qualitative approaches and, among other things, thematise biographical processes in the context of flight and migration. To this end, work has been produced by young researchers and articles have been published. Furthermore, the research activities in this area also included teaching and learning research, which led to the establishment of the European Joint Master Migration and Intercultural Relations degree programme (first admission in the winter semester 2006/07).
International co-operation is also the basis of work in migration research: among other things, the conference "Globalisation and Women's Work in South Asia and the EU" was organised together with an Indian university, which focused on gender and migration. Young female academics have held thematically relevant fellowships, including at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Sana'a, Yemen.

Key publications:

Potts, Lydia (2006): Figures of Border and Transition. Representations of femininity and nation from a transcultural perspective. In: Adorf, Sigrid et al. (eds.): Mission statements, self-images, options. Conceptions of socio-cultural representations.

Potts, Lydia/Krüger, Dorothea (2005): Single migrant women in Germany - Poverty as a constant? An exploration of empiricism, statistics and research approaches. In: Ernst, Waltraud (ed.): Leben und Wirtschaften. Gender constructions through work, Münster