DFG Research Unit 5183
Transborder Mobility and Institutional Dynamics
transMID is a DFG Research Unit which investigates the intersections of transborder mobility and institutions from a transdisciplinary, transnational and transregional perspective. It addresses an existing research gap since, to date, social scientists have often explored mobility and migration separately from institutions and institutional dynamics.
About transMID
This Research Unit brings together scholars from sociology, anthropology and political science in order to examine the nexus between transborder mobility and institutions from a transregional and transnational perspective that extends beyond European host countries. It aims to explore the ways in which institutions frame, shape or control mobility (especially labour migration, educational migration and forced migration) and considers the influence of these forms of mobility on institutional endurance or change. Building on five closely intertwined subprojects, the particular focus of the Research Unit’s theoretical and empirical analyses are the institutional dynamics – i.e. processes of institutionalisation, de- and re-institutionalisation and institutional pluralisation – that accompany transborder mobility and the mechanisms of internal and external institutional regulations of mobility.
News
Conference 16.-17.05.2024
‘Theory-Making and Methodologies at the Intersection of Mobility and Institutions: Perspectives from and on the Global South‘
The next Research Unit 5183 conference will take place in May 2024
Workshop/Training 19.-20.01.2024
‘Critical Diversity & Intersectionality’
Led by Dr Cassandra Ellerbe, the Research Unit’s Young Scholars held a two-day workshop in January 2024 on ‘Critical Diversity & Intersectionality’ in Siegen.
Roundtable 30.10.2023
‘Towards Transregional Perspectives on Migration, Mobility, and Institutions’
The Research Unit organised the online roundtable ‘Towards Transregional Perspectives on Migration, Mobility, and Institutions’ with four invited guests upon the initiative of Prof Dr Karin Schittenhelm und Dr Dominik Schieder.
Speaker
Prof Dr Karin Schittenhelm
Department of Social Sciences
University of Siegen
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57068 Siegen
schittenhelm@soziologie.uni-siegen.de
Deputy Speaker
Prof Dr Katharina Inhetveen
Department of Social Sciences
University of Siegen
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57068 Siegen
inhetveen@soziologie.uni-siegen.de
Scientific Coordinator
Dr Dominik Schieder
Department of Social Sciences
University of Siegen
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57068 Siegen
dominik.schieder@uni.siegen.de
Secretary
Beata Koziol
ENC-D 312
University of Siegen
Walter-Flex-Str. 3
57072 Siegen
beata.koziol@uni-siegen.de