Critical Social Geography: The Discourse on the Post-Migrant Society - Insights and perspectives for urban integration policies

Duration: 2018-2019

Project management: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Simon Runkel, Diana GriesingerExternal link

Funding source: vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban DevelopmentExternal link (vhw – Bundesverband für Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung)

Research focus: Geographies of the life course

Content

The project dealt with the discourse on post-migrant society and asked to what extent ideas and positions of post-migrant debates can serve as an impulse and shift in perspective for municipal integration policy practice. The elaborated contents, positions and ideas were developed taking into account the voices of actors from academia and practice in municipal integration policy. Based on a systematic evaluation of the literature that works with the label "post-migrant", twelve interviews with migration and integration policy experts from the fields of municipal administration, civil society and academia took place from January to March 2019. In March 2019, a large number of these experts came together for an inter- and transdisciplinary workshop to examine current local practices in integration policy and work from a post-migrant perspective.