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Current Research Programme:
 

Cluster 1: The Regulation of Citizenship, Immigration and Diversity

Cluster 2: Socio-Cultural Integration and Interethnic Contacts

Cluster 3: The Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants

Cluster 4: Ethnic and Religious Conflicts

Cluster 5: Solidarity, Trust and Cooperation in Diverse Communities

 

Cluster 1: The Regulation of Citizenship, Immigration and Diversity

TRANSMIT - Transnational Perspectives on Migrant Integration
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Dr. Daniel Auer, Dr. Max Schaub
Duration: 2020 - 2022
Funding: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend
BODYRULES - Migration-related Changes of Organizational Rules Regulating the Human Body
Head
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski
Staff
Max Behrendt, Serkan Ünsal, Gizem Ünsal
Duration: 2018 - 2020
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
ExiTT: Exit - Transit - Transformation
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Herbert Brücker (BIM), Frank Kalter (MZES), Naika Foroutan (BIM), Andreas Pott (IMIS), Helen Schwenken (IMIS)
Staff
Dr. Max Schaub, Dr. Daniel Auer
Laura Daedelow (BIM), Carolin Wackerhagen (BIM), Inken Bartels (IMIS)
Duration: 2018 -
Funding: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)
Climate Change Impacts on Migration and Urbanization (IMPETUS)
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Staff
Dr. Daniel Meierrieks
Duration: 2018 - 2021
Funding: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
When Do Migration Aspirations Materialize?
Head
Dr. Daniel Auer, Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Dr. Friederike Römer (University of Bremen), Dr. Jasper Tjaden
Staff
Hannah Arnu
Duration: 2018 -
Naturalization of Immigrants: Obstacles and Opportunities in German Municipalities
Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Rafaela Dancygier, Ph.D. (Princeton University, USA)
Jeyhun Alizade (Princeton University)
Duration: 2015-
Funding: University Center for Human Values and The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University
Cultural Rights of Native Majorities between Universalism and Minority Rights
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Liav Orgad
Duration: 2014-
Funding: WZB
The Meaning of Being German, American, Singaporean: An Inductive Approach to National Identity.
Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Johannes Kopf-Beck (Max Planck Institut für Psychatrie, München); Valerie Purdie-Vaughns (Columbia University); Shirlena Huang (National University of Singapore); Eric Thompson (National University of Singapore)
Duration: 2012-
Funding: WZB, Columbia University and National University of Singapore
The Organization of Religious Diversity in the Military
Head
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski
Duration: 2008-
Funding: WZB and Transatlantic Academy (October 2008 - July 2009)
Indicators of Citizenship Rights for Immigrants (ICRI)
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski
Duration: 2007-
Funding: WZB

Cluster 2: Socio-Cultural Integration and Interethnic Contacts

A rolling stone gathers no moss? Residential mobility among ethnic minorities in Germany and its consequences for well-being (WELLMOB)
Head
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer, Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol
Duration: since 2019
Funding: DFG
Stateways versus Folkways: The Role of Authority Approval in Intergroup Contact
Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Duration: 2015 - 2019
Funding: WZB
Cultural Interactions between Muslim Immigrants and Receiving Societies (EURISLAM)
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Prof. Jean Tillie (Universiteit van Amsterdam); Prof. Dirk Jacobs (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Prof. Paul Statham (University of Bristol), Prof. Marco Giugni (Université de Genève), Prof. Manlio Cinalli (Sciences Po Paris),
Staff
Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol, Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski
Evelyn Ersanilli, PhD (University of Oxford); Prof. Jonathan Laurence (Boston College)
Duration: 2009 - 2016
Funding: European Commission, 7th Framework Programme
Six Country Immigrant Integration Comparative Survey (SCIICS)
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Evelyn Ersanilli, PhD (University of Oxford)
Staff
Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol, Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski, Prof. Dr. Bram Lancee, Jutta Höhne, Verena Seibel
Duration: 2008 - 2016
Funding: WZB

Cluster 3: The Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants

ARBEIT: The Role of Discrimination in the Labor Market Situation of Young People with a Migrant Background
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Herbert Brücker (IAB), Frank Kalter (MZES)
Staff
Ruta Yemane, Lara Aithal
David Kretschmer (MZES)
Duration: 2018 - 2019
Funding: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)
Evaluations of Immigration- and Integration Policies
Head
Dr. Daniel Auer
Prof. Dr. Flavia Fossati (University of Vienna), Prof. Dr. Carlos Vargs-Silva (Oxford University), Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kurt (HES-SO Valais), Dennis Egger (Berkeley University), Dr. Johannes Kunz (Monash University), Dr. Damaris Rose (Uni Cologne)
Staff
Thomas Tichelbäcker
Duration: 2018 -
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation
Ethnic Penalties, Assimilation, and the Role of Public Attitudes
Head
Dr. Daniel Auer
Prof. Dr. Giuliano Bonoli (University of Lausanne), Prof. Dr. Flavia Fossati (Uni Vienna), Julie Lacroix (University of Geneva), Dr. Fabienne Liechti (University of Lausanne), Dr. Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchâtel)
Staff
Thomas Tichelbäcker
Lea Portmann (University of Lucerne)
Duration: 2018 -
Funding: Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen BWO Switzerland, Swiss National Science Foundation, SFM Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, HR Swiss
Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration, and Markets (GEMM)
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Dr. Susanne Veit
Staff
Ruta Yemane
Duration: 2015-
Funding: Horizon 2020 of the European Commission
Discrimination of Social Welfare Applicants in the German Bureaucracy
Head
Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.
Duration: 2014-
Funding: WZB
Ethnic Discrimination on the Labor Market in Comparative Perspective
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Dr. Susanne Veit
Staff
Ruta Yemane
Duration: 2013 -
Funding: WZB

Cluster 4: Ethnic and Religious Conflicts

Political Protest and Radicalisation (Protest Monitoring)
Head
Prof. Dr. Edgar Grande, Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Swen Hutter
Staff
Dr. Sophia Hunger, Eylem Kanol, Teresa Völker
Duration: 12/2019-11/2024
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Genocide, Diaspora and Political Activism
Head
Dr. Max Schaub
Rustamdjan Hakimov (University of Lausanne)
Duration: 2018 -
Funding: WZB Seed Money Grant
RADIKAL: Religious Extremism and Radicalisation from a Migration and Integration Theory Perspective
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick (IKG)
Staff
Eylem Kanol
La Toya Waha (IKG)
Duration: 2017 - 2019
Funding: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)
Gold and Conflict: Evidence from South Sudan
Head
Dr. Max Schaub, Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.
Duration: 2017 -
Funding: WZB, University of Konstanz Young Scholar Fund
Addressing Violent Inter-Group Conflict from the Bottom Up?
Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Duration: 2016 - 2017
Funding: WZB
German Public Opinion and the Refugee Crisis: Mechanisms of Support and Opposition
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.
Staff
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski, Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D., Dr. Susanne Veit, Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.
Duration: 2015-
Funding: WZB
Religious Fundamentalism and Radicalization in Comparative Perspective
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff
Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D., Eylem Kanol
Duration: 2015-
Funding: WZB
Against Elites, Against Outsiders: Sources of Democracy Critique, Immigration Critique, and Right-Wing Populism
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Dr. Heiko Giebler, Dr. Susanne Veit
Staff
Magdalena Hirsch, Benjamin Schürmann, Niklas Stoll
Duration: 2017-
Funding: WZB
Xenophobia in (East) Germany
Head
Dr. Susanne Veit, Prof. Dr. Dietlind Stolle
Duration: 2015-
Funding: WZB
Ambassadors of Peace? Intergroup Contact and Conflict Resolution in Israel
Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Cyrus Samii (New York University, USA)
Duration: 2012-
Funding: USAID, USIP (through New York University, USA)
The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Staff
Prof. Oliver Strijbis, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol, Prof. Dr. Céline Teney, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Prof. Dr. Pieter de Wilde, Dr. Onawa Promise Lacewell, Senem Tepe, Niklas Mäkinen
Duration: 2011-
Funding: WZB

Cluster 5: Solidarity, Trust and Cooperation in Diverse Communities

Strangers in Hostile Lands: First-Time Exposure to Immigrants and Right-Wing Support Following the Refugee Crisis
Head
Dr. Max Schaub
Delia Baldassarri (NYU and Bocconi University), Johanna Gereke (Bocconi)
Duration: 2017 -
Funding: ERC Starting Grant
Voter Mobilization in the Echo Chamber: Broadband Diffusion, Internet Use and the Rise of Populism in Europe
Head
Dr. Max Schaub
Davide Morisi (University of Vienna)
Duration: 2016 -
Funding: WZB, University of Vienna
Ethnic Riots and Pro-Social Behavior: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Head
Dr. Max Schaub, Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.
Krzysztof Krakowski (EUI)
Duration: 2016 -
Funding: WZB, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, EUI
Evangelical Missions and Democratic Values
Head
Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.
Duration: 2014 - 2017
Funding: Center for the Study of Development Strategies (through Columbia University)

Concluded Projects

Contested Boundaries: Explaining Where Ethno-Racial Diversity Provokes Neighbourhood Conflict
Head
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer
Joscha Legewie, New York University
Duration: 2013-2015
Funding: WZB
Income Advantages of Poorly-Qualified Immigrant Minorities
Head
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer, Prof. Dr. Céline Teney, Jutta Höhne
Duration: 2013-2015
Funding: WZB
Over-Education among Immigrants in Germany
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff
Verena Seibel
Duration: 2011-2015
Funding: Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Ethnic Diversity and Cooperation. Causality, Linking Mechanisms, and Context (PhD project)
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff
Dr. Susanne Veit
Duration: 2010 - 2014
Funding: WZB
Integration Requirements and Citizenship Tests
Head
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski
Duration: 2008-2014
Funding: WZB
Gender and Migration on the Labour Market: Additive or Interacting Disadvantages in Germany?
Head
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann
Staff
Jutta Höhne
Duration: 2011-2013
Funding: WZB
Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market. The Role of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
Head
Prof. Dr. Bram Lancee
Duration: 2011-2013
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion: Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer
Duration: 2009-2013
Funding: WZB
Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion in Germany
Head
Prof. Dr. Bram Lancee
Duration: 2011-2013
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Is Blood Thicker than Water? Family and Gender Values and Their Impact on the Social Distance Between Muslim Migrants and Natives in Western Europe
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff
Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol
Duration: 2009-2013
Funding: WZB
The Group Threat Hypothesis Revisited: A Spatial Analysis of NPD Electoral Support
Head
Prof. Dr. Céline Teney
Duration: 2010-2012
Funding: WZB
Socio-Cultural Determinants of Labour-Market Integration of Immigrants
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Jutta Höhne
Duration: 2009 - 2012
Funding: WZB
The Heuristic Potential of Models of Citizenship and Immigrant Integration for International Comparisons
Head
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski
Duration: 2009-2012
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Nachwuchswissenschaftlernetzwerk)
Ethnic Diversity, Social Trust and Civic Engagement
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer, Dr. Susanne Veit, Anna Ute Dunkel
Duration: 2008-2012
Funding: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend
The Diffusion of Anti-Immigrant Violence in Germany, 1990-1999
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Duration: 2007-2012
Funding: WZB
Ethnic Educational Inequality: The Role of Neighbourhood Contexts
Head
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann
Prof. Karen Phalet (University of Leuven),
Patrick Deboosere (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Karel Neels (University of Antwerpen)
Duration: 2007-2012
Funding: WZB
The Role of Group Competition and Cultural Group Composition in the Provision of Public Goods: An Evolutionary Approach
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Jeroen van den Bergh, PhD (Universidad de Barcelona)
Susanne Rebers, PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Dr. Julian Garcia (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Duration: 2005-2012
Funding: Dutch Science Foundation
Second Federal Integration Indicators Report
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff
Jutta Höhne
Duration: 2011
Funding: Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration
Switzerland: A Nation-State or a Multi-National State?
Head
Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Nenad Stojanovic (Center for Democracy Aarau)
Duration: 2009-2011
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation, Center for Democracy Aarau, Center for Comparative and International Studies University and ETH Zurich
Germanophobia in Switzerland
Head
Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Duration: 2009-2011
Funding: WZB
Islamophobia in Western Europe and North America
Head
Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Prof. Dietlind Stolle (McGill University)
Allison Harell (Queen's University)
Duration: 2009-2011
Funding: WZB
Interethnic Contact and Residential Segregation
Head
Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter
Dr. Johannes Ullrich (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Dr. Peter Schmidt (Philipps-University Marburg)
Duration: 2009-2011
Funding: University of Giessen
Mass Media Influences on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes
Head
Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter
Dr. Eldad Davidov (University of Zurich)
Duration: 2009-2011
Funding: WZB
Religion among Muslim Minorities in Europe: Structural Integration, Religious Socialisation and Religious Identities
Head
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann
Prof. Karen Phalet (University of Leuven)
Derya Güngör (University of Leuven), Olivier Klein (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Duration: 2007-2011
Funding: WZB

Projects Concluded Before 2011

Trade-Offs between Equality and Difference: Immigrant Integration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State in Cross-National Perspective
Staff
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Duration: 2009-2010
Funding: WZB
Ethnic Diversity and Attitudes towards Immigrants: Evidence for Threat or Contact Effects?
Head
Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter
Ulrich Wagner (Marburg University, Germany), Peer Scheepers (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Duration: 2009-2010
Funding: WZB
Restructuring Political Conflict in the Age of Globalisation
Head
Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Hanspeter Kriesi (University of Zurich), Edgar Grande (University of Munich), Martin Dolezal (University of Vienna), Swen Hutter (University of Munich), Dominic Hoeglinger (University of Zurich), Bruno Wüest (University of Zurich)
Duration: 2006-2010
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 536), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Pim Fortuyn: The Evolution of a Media Phenomenon
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Jasper C. Muis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Duration: 2006-2010
Funding: WZB
VEIL- Values, Equality and Differences in Liberal Democracies; Debates over Female Muslim Headscarves in Europe
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Doutje N. Lettinga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Duration: 2006-2010
Funding: WZB
The Transformation of Political Mobilisation and Communication in European Public Spheres (EUROPUB)
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Duration: 2000-2010
Funding: European Commission, 5th Framework Programme (1 400 000 Euro)
Host Culture Adoption and Ethnic Retention among Turkish Immigrants and their Descendants in France, Germany, and the Netherlands
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff
Evelyn Ersanilli, PhD
Duration: 2004-2010
Funding: WZB
First Integration Indicator Report
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Rahim Hajji
Dr. Dietrich Engels (ISG Köln, Germany)
Staff
Jutta Höhne
Mirjam Martin (ISG Köln, Germany); Friedrich Scheller (ISG Köln, Germany)
Duration: 2008-2009
Funding: Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration
Biographic Consequences of Parent Child-Separation during the Migration Process: The Case of Guest-Worker Migration to Germany
Head
Prof. Dr. Rahim Hajji
Duration: 2008
Funding: WZB