Coordination Funds

该研究股汇集了社会学、人类学和政治学的学者，以便从欧洲东道国以外的跨区域和跨国角度研究跨界流动与机构之间的关系。其目的是探讨机构如何制定、塑造或控制流动(特别是劳动力、教育和强迫移徙)，并试图思考这些形式的流动对机构耐力或变化的影响。在七个紧密交织在一起的次级项目的基础上，研究股的理论和经验分析的特别重点是伴随着跨界流动的体制动态--即机构化、去机构化和再机构化进程以及体制多元化--以及流动的内部和外部体制监管机制。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重大挑战。与此同时，体制做法和(联合国)确定性可能与参与跨界流动的行为者一样具有流动性。这意味着，制度可以超越其起源的社会背景而具体化、再具体化、改变或瓦解，从而触发、塑造或阻碍各种形式的流动。因此，研究股的假设是，各机构之间的相互作用和跨界流动的各种现象是相互冲突的，也是对现有社会科学分析框架的挑战。该研究股特别侧重于机构动态和卷入跨境流动的社会行为者的制度战略，试图解释机构同时具有动员或固定社会行为者的潜力的方式，以及跨境流动可能如何改变机构，甚至使机构跨国。该研究股的特别相关性是，首先，它从跨学科、跨国和跨区域的角度系统地关注跨境流动和机构的交叉。其次，它解决了一个现有的研究空白，因为到目前为止，社会科学家经常从制度和制度动态两个方面单独探讨流动性和移徙问题。归根结底，研究股的目标是对跨界流动与机构动态之间的关系从经验和理论上获得细微差别的见解，并为此目的开发一个分析工具包，从而有助于更好地了解这些与公共有关的社会政治现象。

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.