05/2026: RUB news features our EU-funded project MITIME – Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-Industrial Urban Europe, which brings together seven UNIC universities and will see two doctoral researchers join the chair in September 2026. You can read the full article here.

05/2026: Elena Fattorelli successfully defended her dissertation on 20 May 2026. The team at the Chair of Sociology / Transnationalisation, Migration and Work warmly congratulates her!

04/2026: We are once again delighted to welcome three students from the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) as part of the MARAWO double degree programme. Further information and our buddy programme with students from Mexico can be found here.

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

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