03/2025: We are pleased to announce the upcoming GIRA Summer School 2025, titled “Arbeitsbeziehungen im Wandel: Anpassung, Neujustierung, Widerstand”. The event will take place at Ruhr-University Bochum from Monday, 29.09.2025 to Thursday, 02.10.2025. Aimed at doctoral students investigating changes in industrial relations, this summer school offers the opportunity to engage with fellow doctoral students and experienced researchers. We invite interested doctoral researchers to submit their short papers (500 Words) by 31 March 2025. You can find the call for papers here for further details.

01/2025: As part of our international Summer School “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Transnational Migrant Remittances”, Master's students dealt with the highly relevant topic of migrant remittances in the format of team podcasts. The interview podcasts conducted with Dr. Lothar Smith (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer (RUB) are now available on the OpenRUB platform.

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

Elena Fattorelli (2024) Administrative control mechanisms in the descent-based family reunification of refugees, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(12), doi: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2345459

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

Katrin Menke (2024) Arbeitsmarktteilhabe migrierter Frauen in Deutschland: Plädoyer für eine intersektionale Sozialpolitikforschung. In: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft. 33 (2-2024), 44-58. doi:10.3224/feminapolitica.v33i2.04