11/2025: On 3 and 4 November the SYLFF-Mikrokolleg will host a conference on ‘Forced Migration: Digital Frontiers: Forced Migration in a Changing Technological Landscape’. More information can be found here.

10/2025: On 13 November 2025, a Virtual City Lab organised by the UNIC network will take place with the title ‘The Becoming of Sanctuary: The (un)making of sanctuary and solidarity for “unauthorised” migrant people in contemporary times’. Margit Fauser will contribute to the roundtable discussion on ‘solidarity networks and civil society responses’. More information can be found here.

10/2025: From 29 September to 2 October, the GIRA Summer School on Changing Industrial Relations took place at the RUB, jointly organised by the German Industrial Relations Association (GIRA), the Institute of Work Science (Prof. Markus Hertwig) and the Faculty of Social Science (Prof. Birgit Apitzsch & Prof. Margit Fauser). During the Summer School, 12 doctoral students had the opportunity to present their research projects and exchange ideas with established researchers in the field of industrial relations through keynotes, inputs and comments.

07/2025: Katrin Menke has reviewed the book “Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century” for the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research's (DIFIS) social policy blog. The article “Reproduktionspolitiken als neues Feld der Sozialpolitikforschung” can be found on the website of DIFIS.

Margit Fauser & Nick Linsel (2026) Agricultural exceptionalism, migrant farmworkers and their transnational condition: Insights into media portrayal in Germany, Journal of Rural Studies 121, 103923, doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103923.

Ludger Pries & Nick Linsel (2025) Forced migrants' agencies between victimhood and self-efficacy - biographies of Syrians in Turkey, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19, doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2586723.

Dana Tholen (2025) Gewerkschaftliche Positionierung zu migrantischer Arbeit in Kontexten der Fragmentierung und Prekarität: Einsichten aus der Paketlieferbranche, AIS-Studien 18(1), 43-57, doi: 10.21241/ssoar.102370

Fred N. Ikanda, Abdirahman A. Muhumad & Jana Kuhnt (2025) Refugee securitization and the challenges of formal integration: case of Somali refugees in Kenya and Ethiopia, Comparative Migration Studies 13(5), doi: 10.1186/s40878-024-00419-7

Margit Fauser (2024) Mapping the internal border through the city: an introduction, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(12), doi: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2344693