Is it Really About Migration?: Rethinking Concepts of Integration in Plural Democracies
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-25

A lecture by Naika Foroutan exploring the "mismatch" between the empirical and affective data on migrants and refugees in the EU and offering possible explanations for the cognitive dissonance.

This event was co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies at UW-Madison.

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.