04/2026: The team at the Chair of Sociology / Transnationalisation, Migration and Work wishes all students a great start to the new semester!

03/2026: The MITIME PhD programme started with a kick-off event in Liège on 19 March. We look forward to welcoming the programme’s first PhD students at RUB soon.

12/2025 The team of DIFIS research field 3: transnational social security in the migration society invites participants to the conference “Prekäre Arbeit und Zugang zu sozialer Sicherung” on January 29 to 30, 2026, in Duisburg. Follow these links for program and registration.

Abdirahman A. Muhumad & Muhammed Abedella Nuru (2026) Internal displacement, urban systems, and informality: evidence from Jigjiga city in Ethiopia, Development in Practice, 1–11, doi:10.1080/09614524.2026.2649800.

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.

Katrin Menke (2025) Beschäftigungs(un)fähig? Mythen zu geflüchteten Musliminnen am Arbeitsmarkt, Vierteljahresschrift zur Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsforschung 2(4), 477-491, doi: 10.3790/vaw.2025.1473404

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.

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