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Category: Migration Research

  • Online Now | Two New NGHM Exhibitions

    What can we learn about local history when we read administrative files, index cards, and survey forms not merely as carriers of information, but as sources that were themselves involved in the production of knowledge about population, belonging, and exclusion? Two new digital exhibition projects by students from the Research Group Modern History and Historical…

  • Research Revisited: NGHM Publications on the Production of Figures of Migration 2024/25

    In the section Research Revisited, the NGHM team presents completed research projects and publications in an irregular series. This issue provides insights into four internationally published journal articles from the academic year 2024/25: Transatlantic conceptual history and the critical analysis of migration policy categories How are people transformed into specific “figures” through migration policy categories…

  • NGHM asks | Where can memorial sites for Displaced Persons actually be found in Germany?

    Why this question? After liberation in May 1945, between 6.5 and 11 million “Displaced Persons” (DPs) were located in the territory of the western occupation zones of Germany. This category included former forced labourers, concentration camp prisoners, prisoners of war, as well as other persons uprooted by the war and Nazi persecution. Jewish survivors of…

  • History @ SFB 1604 | Interview with Gerhard Kromschröder for the “Production of Migration” podcast.

    On 21 October 1985, “Ganz unten” by Günther Wallraff was published. Almost exactly three years earlier, on 14 October 1982, another undercover report in “Stern” had already drawn attention to the everyday racism experienced by migrants from Turkey in Germany. The following year, journalist Gerhard Kromschröder published his observations and experiences in the book “Als…

  • International Workshop on Agency and Forced Migration at the University of Southern Denmark

    On September 25 and 26, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, Dr. Sebastian Huhn, Annika Heyen, and Jessica Wehner participated in the international workshop on Forced Migration and Agency at Southern University in Denmark, which was organized by Morten Baarvig Thomsen and sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation. Following a visit by Morten Baarvig Thomsen in April 2025…

  • History@SFB: DOMiD Workshop with Students of History and IMIB

    On 27 June, the first test workshop of the SFB 1604 transfer project “Reflexive Migration Research in the Museum” took place. For this purpose, the project staff members Aladin El-Mafaalani, Lale Yildirim, Annika Heyen, Johannes Pufahl and Tim Ott, together with students from the History department as well as the Master’s programme “International Migration and…