Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Naika Foroutan
Director Head of institute
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Prof. Dr. Naika Foroutan is Director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). She is a professor of integration research and social policy at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she heads a department at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM).
Her research interests include the transformation of immigration countries into post-migrant societies, Islam and minority policies, and radicalization, racism and Islamism.
For her academic work, she has received several distinctions, including the Fritz Behrens Foundation’s Science Award for outstanding research (2012), the University of Vechta’s Höffmann Science Award (2016), an honorary doctorate from Lund University (May 2025), and the Caroline von Humboldt Professorship (2025).
Within the DeZIM Research Community, she represents BIM.
Research focus
Integration and Migration Research
- Political transformation of immigration societies (integration policy, immigration policy, religious policy / Islam policy, minority policy)
- Normative questions of migration and integration (value change, guiding principles, public attitudes)
- Minority and community policies (Islam and Muslims in political discourse, organizations and associations, dynamics of recognition and exclusion)
Social Policy
- Postmigrant societies (theoretical development)
- Theories of hybridity and identity (constructions of ethnicity and culture, narratives of national identity, processes of personal and social identity formation, performativity)
- Radicalization, Islamism, and populism
- Racism and discrimination
Middle Eastern Futurisms
- Middle East Conflict
- Real Utopia and Panprogressivism