Research and teaching activities of the working group “Migration and Urban Research” include empirical analysis of migration processes, especially of labour migration in Germany, but also research on integration of immigrants, education and labour markets, economic sociology of immigration, quantitative methodology, longitudinal and network analysis.
Recent research is focused on
- education and integration of immigrants in an international comparative perspective
- founding and dissolution of immigrant businesses in Germany
- spatial labour mobility in Germany
- Norms, values and the process of leaving parental home: Turkish immigrants and native Germans compared
- Determinants of graffiti-writing
- Immigration and juvenile delinquency
- Social contexts of interethnic social relations: social networks during childhood and early adolescence
- Persistence of regional dialects in Northern Germany: the role of social networks
- Internationalization of education policy