Coordination Funds

该研究股汇集了来自社会学，人类学和政治学的学者，以便从超越欧洲东道国的跨区域和跨国视角研究跨界流动与机构之间的联系。其目的是探讨机构如何构建、塑造或控制流动性（特别是劳动力、教育和被迫移徙），并试图思考这些形式的流动性对机构持久性或变革的影响。基于七个密切相关的子项目，研究股的理论和实证分析的重点是机构动态-即制度化，去制度化和再制度化以及机构多元化的过程-伴随着跨境流动和流动的内部和外部机构监管机制。正如许多公开的社会政治辩论所表明的那样，跨境流动对现有机构构成了重大挑战。与此同时，机构做法和（不）流动性可能与参与跨界流动的行为者一样具有移动的性。这意味着制度可以超越其起源的社会背景而实现、再实现、改变或解散，从而触发、塑造或阻碍各种形式的流动。因此，研究股建立在这样一种假设的基础上，即机构与各种跨界流动现象之间的相互作用充满冲突，也对现有的社会科学分析框架提出了挑战。特别关注机构动态和社会行动者卷入跨境流动的机构战略，研究单位试图解释机构同时具有动员或固定社会行动者的潜力的方式，以及跨境流动如何可能改变甚至跨国化机构。从跨学科、跨国和跨区域的角度，系统地从经验和理论上关注跨界流动和机构的交叉点。其次，它解决了现有的研究空白，因为迄今为止，社会科学家经常探索流动性和移民从机构和机构动态分开。最后，研究股的目标是获得经验上的细微差别和理论上的深刻见解之间的关系跨境流动和机构动态，并有助于更好地了解这些公共相关的社会政治现象，为此目的开发一个分析工具包。

This Research Unit brings together scholars from sociology, anthropology and political science in order to examine the nexus between transborder mobility and institutions from a transregional and transnational perspective that extends beyond European host countries. It aims to explore the ways in which institutions frame, shape or control mobility (especially labour, educational and forced migration) and seeks to ponder the influence of these forms of mobility on institutional endurance or change. Building on seven, closely intertwined subprojects, the particular focus of the Research Unit’s theoretical and empirical analyses are the institutional dynamics – i.e. processes of institutionalisation, de- and re-institutionalisation as well as institutional pluralisation – that accompany transborder mobility and the mechanisms of internal and external institutional regulations of mobility. As numerous public sociopolitical debates indicate, transborder mobility poses significant challenges to existing institutions. At the same time, institutional practices and (un)certainties are potentially as mobile as the actors involved in transborder mobility. This means that institutions can materialise, re-materialise, change or dissolve beyond their societal context of origin and thus trigger, shape or impede various forms of mobility. The Research Unit thus builds on the assumption that the interplay of institutions and various phenomena of transborder mobility is conflictladen and also challenges existing social scientific frameworks of analysis. With a particular focus on institutional dynamics and the institutional strategies of social actors enmeshed in transborder mobility, the Research Unit seeks to explain the ways in which institutions simultaneously have the potential to mobilise or immobilise social actors and how transborder mobility likely transforms or even transnationalises institutions.The particular relevance of this Research Unit is founded, firstly, in its systematic empirical and theoretical focus on the intersections of transborder mobility and institutions from a trans-disciplinary, transnational and transregional perspective. Secondly, it addresses an existing research gap since, to date, social scientists have often explored mobility and migration sepa-rately from institutions and institutional dynamics. Ultimately, the Research Unit aims to gain empirically nuanced and theoretically grounded insights into the nexus between transborder mobility and institutional dynamics and contribute to a better understanding of these publicly relevant socio-political phenomena by developing an analytical toolkit for this purpose.