Work on the Production of Categories | Impressions from a Conference in Cambridge
Who draws the line between 'refugee' and 'migrant'? Impressions from the conference "The Refugee-Migrant Distinction: Toward a Global History" at Darwin College in Cambridge (15–16 October 2026): six panels ranging from the Greek-Turkish population…
History@SFB 1604 | The transfer project with its VR experiment “Changing Places” at the Experimentiermeile 2026 at the Ledenhof
What happens to our sense of place when familiar spaces look different? The Transfer Project of SFB 1604 brought its VR experiment "Changing Places" to Osnabrück's Experimentiermeile, inviting visitors to explore the Peace Hall in virtual ... —…
OUT NOW | The Holocaust and Varieties of Migration
Migration was not only a consequence of Holocaust-era violence — it helped organize and execute it. This Open Access volume reframes both Holocaust and migration history through a revealing new lens. Read more at the link below. — Translated from…
A problem of the present – a conference for the future? The 1943 Bermuda Conference on the “Refugee Problem” re-read from the perspective of a Migration Historian
What happens when a migration historian re-examines the 1943 Bermuda Conference — long studied through a Holocaust studies lens? Annika Heyen's new essay tests how fresh disciplinary perspectives can unlock overlooked dimensions of well-tr... —…
Fundstücke | »Guests of the Reich«. An American Riposte to the Nazi Catchphrase ‘Gastarbeiter’, 1943
A weekly newspaper from rural Georgia, July 23, 1943: Under the headline "Guests of the Reich," a short column dissects the National Socialist propaganda term Gastarbeiter in its English translation and calls it "Hitler tosh." The source predates the…
Watching a Register Move | An Animated Card Index and the Production of Migration
This essay follows an animated visualization built from Osnabrück’s historic foreigners’ registration index to ask, from the perspective of CRC 1604 ‘Produktion von Migration’, whether a bureaucratic register merely records migration — or helps produce…
IMIS Guests @ NGHM | Summer Semester 2026: Matti Välimäki (Helsinki) and Morten Baarvig Thomsen (Odense).
Since early April 2026, two visiting scholars have joined the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück as guests integrated into the NGHM Research Group (Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass): Matti Tapio…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…