Migration pathways: goals, interactions and their consequences

Migration Department

Project head: Dr. Ramona Rischke ,  Dr. Zeynep Yanaşmayan

Project team members: Dr. Marcus Engler ,  Dr. Pau Palop-García

In national and European law, complex legal regulations as well as administrative processes and infrastructures regulate "regular" access to the territory and thus to specific rights for different groups of migrants and protection seekers. It has long been a formulated political goal (e.g. in the Coalition Agreement, the EU Migration and Asylum Pact and the Global Compact on Migration) to replace "irregular" migration with "regular" migration. However, to what extent and under what conditions this can succeed is disputed. Beyond the assumed dichotomy of regular and irregular migration, the interactions between different migration channels (including various forms of labour migration, educational migration, family migration, humanitarian migration) are of particular importance and have not been sufficiently researched. The project aims to expand the knowledge on existing interactions using different methods and case studies. It is based on an intersectional perspective, through which factors such as gender, age, family constellations, nationality and socio-economic background are included in the analysis. The relevance of the project is also based on the fact that processes with considerable potential for change can currently be observed at all political levels.

Funding: Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Institutional funding)