Research

In our research, we deal with migration-related change in society from the perspective and experience of migration. The aim is to radically rethink the phenomenon of migration, to understand it as a force that moves and shapes society and to make visible fractures, ambiguity and marginalised memories that are not located on the margins of society, but express the central social conditions. Such a shift in perspective also means, above all, a critical examination of practices of discrimination, racism and social power relations.

With regard to our qualitatively orientated research practice, we deal with migration, diversity and education. The focus is on migration-related transformation processes, both in relation to institutions and subjective localisation practices.

Selected research projects:

• Increasing Social Effectiveness Through Innovative Methods and Tools in Non-formal Education-based Youth Work: Turkey, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain (Funded by the European Commission through Erasmus+)
• D-A-CH-Project: Political Literacy in the Migration Society. An ethnographic study of political practice in schools in the cities of Berlin, Vienna, and Zurich (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF))
• Faces of migration. Young people research their family migration history together (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research as part of the Sparkling Science research programme)
• Migration of Spaces - Identity through Architecture in the Context of Turkish Remigration (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in Germany)
• D-A-CH project: Life Strategies of Migrant Families in Marginalised Urban Areas (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF))
• Muslim Everyday Practice in Austria. A Compass for Religious Diversity (A joint research project with the University of Vienna/Institute for Islamic Studies)
• Film project: Young people about their migration stories, life situations and ideas for the future (funded by the Vielfalter initiative)
• Turning hardship into a future? Life plans of young people with a migration background from marginalised urban districts (funded by the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank)
• Alps-Adriatic Spatial Practice (funded by the Private Foundation of the Kärntner Sparkasse)
• Companies as places of diversity (sponsored by Infineon)
• Diversity at second glance. International resources in Carinthia (sponsored by the Private Foundation of the Kärntner Sparkasse)