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
Field of research: Empirical research on migration and integration // Social policy
I. Postmigrant Societies/ Transformation of Immigration Countries
- Flight & Migration
- Changing integration paradigms
- Pluralization and identity stress
II. minority policies (focus on Islam & Muslims in Europe)
- Hybrid Identities & Performance
- Community & actor landscape
- Islam policies & anti-Muslim attitudes
III. radicalization & democratic distance
- Racism
- Islamism
Empirical migration and integration research:
- Attitudinal research, survey designs, qualitative meta-analyses.
- Political transformation of immigration societies (integration policy, immigration policy, religion policy/ Islam policy, minority policy)
Religious and social diversity in plural democracies:
- Postmigrant societies (theory development)
- Hybridity and identity theories (ethnicity and culture constructions, personal and social identity formation processes, performance)
- Social and political treatment of Islam and Muslims in European societies
- Islam and Muslims as well as migration and integration in political discourse (narratives, recognition and exclusion dynamics)
- Normative issues of migration and integration (changing values, guiding principles)
- Democratic distance, conflict, radicalization.