Post-Migrant Societies: Plural Democracies in Change

Naika Foroutan, professor of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University in Berlin

"The Migration-Craze: Migrants, Refugees and Muslims in the Public Eye"

Tuesday, February 28, 4pm, 6191 Helen C. White

"Is it really about Migration? Rethinking Concepts of Integration in Plural Democracies"

Wednesday, March 1, 4pm, 6191 Helen C. White

Open Seminar for Students, Faculty and Public

Thursday, March 2, 12:20pm, 8108 Social Science

NAIKA FOROUTAN is Professor of Social Sciences at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. She specializes in integration and migration research with a particular focus on countries of immigration, their shifting identities as well as their prevalent attitudes towards minorities. She has been appointed Vice-Director of the Berlin Institute on Integration and Migration Research (BIM) – a research institute based at Humboldt University aimed at providing empirical analysis for migration and integration debates in Europe. She has published widely on the themes of shifting identities in Germany, attitudes towards Muslims in Germany as well as on postmigrant societies - a newly developed theoretical framework for analyzing transformations in migration-impacted societies.  

Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies