›Refugees‹ and Others: The Production of Refugee-Related Figures since the 1970s

Collaborative project
Funding period: April 2024 – December 2027
Head of research: Isabella Löhr (ZZF Potsdam) and Jochen Oltmer (Osnabrück University)

As part of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center / SFB 1604 “Production of Migration” the project investigates the semantic and socio- political emergence of the figure of the refugee in German-speaking countries since the 1970s. To this end, it combines statistical analysis of large text corpora with qualitative historical research. The aim is to trace the contested negotiation of refugee-related figures and to understand how the emergence of these figures was used to produce a particular knowledge on migration that served to enhance social processes of closure or opening.

For more information on the project please click here. The Collaborative Research Centre is affiliated with the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at Osnabrück University.

Projekte

Dominic Sauerbrey

›Refugees‹ and Others: The Production of Refugee-Related Figures since the 1970s

Associated PhD project
Partproject of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center / SFB 1604 “Production of Migration”
Project management: Isabella Löhr (ZZF Potsdam) und Jochen Oltmer (Universität Osnabrück)
The increasing significance of flight and asylum in both the public and political spheres of the GDR, the ›old‹ Federal Republic and the unified Germany led to an increased social production and differentiation of flight-related figures, who are at the center of this associated PhD project.