IRM - INSTITUT FÜR REGIONAL- UND
MIGRATIONSFORSCHUNG
MIGRATION RESEARCH
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The Institute for Regional and Migration Research (IRM) was founded to initiate and carry out research in the area of migration and regional development. At the present time the following projects are in process:
Research Project A: “The Causes and Results of SocialInclusion and Exclusion for Second-generation Migrants”
Contact person: Thomas Geisen Project phase: in preparation
Migrants are specifically subject to various forms of social inclusion and exclusion in their host countries. Examples of exclusion are the denial of participatory rights (civil rights), hostility towards "strangers", racism, and religious discrimination. Inclusion shows itself as social integration in occupational environments, in the development of neighborhoods, and in sports and culture organizations. The various places and forms of inclusion and exclusion permeate each other to varying extent. Ambivalent situations arising from this within the course of social development prevent unambiguous acceptance and hinder attribution of membership. Therefore in the context of this research project the range of procedural forms for inclusory and exclusory experiences shall be developed employing the means of biographical reconstruction of the course of socialization for immigrants belonging to the so-called "Second-generation". Therewith the development of the respective processes of identity formation will be reconstructed and the basis for such identity formation be examined.
Research Project B: “Transfer Systems of Labor”
Contact person: Thomas Geisen Project phase: in preparation
During the emergence and spread of capitalism throughout the world “transfer systems of labor” have established themselves. The concept “transfer system” describes a social relationship, which requires a sufficient number of people as workers within the capitalist economy at places of need, the transfer being carried out via migratory movements. It is particularly distinctive of the modern age that the respective local and regional forms connect themselves with the allocation of labor in the newly developing worldwide transfer systems and, within this context, mutually complete themselves. The aim of the research project is to examine existing transfer systems in different regions.
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