The TRANSFORmIG Project (www.transformig.hu-berlin.de) seeks qualified applicants for the following positions:
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1 Postdoctoral research fellow - E 13 TV-L HU (Component 1)
1 Doctoral research fellow - E 13 TV-L HU 50% (Component 1)
2 Doctoral research fellows - E 13 TV-L HU 50% (Component 2)
1 Postdoctoral research fellow - E 13 TV-L HU (Component 3)
All applicants are asked to send a motivation letter, a CV, a list of publications, a short sample piece of your scientific text, and names and contact details of two potential referees to [log in to unmask] (Prof. Magdalena Nowicka) stating the respective reference number no later than 30.06.2013.
TRANSFORmIG Transforming Migration: Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus
How do migrants develop the competence to successfully operate within a new society and culture, and will these newly acquired intercultural skills and attitudes transfer between individuals and geographical locations? Can migration, and to what extent, trigger a shift towards more tolerance and respect for ethnic and cultural diversity in the countries sending migrants? And how are these effects mediated by particular conditions? These are the questions the TRANSFORmIG project seeks to answer by investigating recent migration between Poland and Great Britain and Germany. The ‘Polish case’ is highly instructive because of diametrically opposed contexts between which the transnational migrants regularly ‘switch’: Britain and Germany are characterized by a level and kind of multi-cultural complexity that is unknown to immigrants from Poland.
The TRANSFORmIG project entails interdisciplinary, multi-method research in selected localities in Great Britain, Germany and Poland. Spanning sociology, anthropology, history and media studies, the project investigates with the help of a longitudinal qualitative study, individual and group interviews, ethnography and discourse analysis how people’s attitudes and skills to act in diverse societies change over time and in dependence with historical and contemporary conditions.
This project is financed by the European Research Council Starting Grant No.313369 awarded to Prof. Dr. Magdalena Nowicka
Component 1 The objective of Component 1 is to examine how and what kind of multicultural habitus migrants acquire and how these transfer across their social networks back to their home country. It makes use of a qualitative longitudinal study to examine processes of change in values and attitudes over time, thereby drawing attention to their context and particularities.
Component 2 This component will deepen the understanding of perceptions of diversity and explore their contexts. Its aim is to discover contradictions and ambivalences involved in situations when people encounter socio-cultural difference. In-depth individual interviews will provide data on personal trajectories of migrants and so give a detailed picture of the contexts in which attitudes on diversity alter. Focus groups will provide rich material to explore individuals’ discursive practices and what kind of rhetoric is at use in relation to diversity.
Component 3 The aim is to investigate and understand the configurational and representational conditions of acquisition of multicultural habitus. The component will use various ethnographic techniques to study the material and visual settings which are constitutive for conceiving of diversity.
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Prof. Dr. Magdalena Nowicka
Leader, Project TRANSFORmIG
Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sitz/Location:
Universitätsstr. 3b, Berlin
Postanschrift/Postal Address:
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
www.transformig.hu-berlin.de
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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