SFB 1604: Production of Migration

合作研究中心（SFB）旨在改变我们看待移民的方式。它假定移徙是社会生产过程的产物，而社会生产过程又从根本上改变社会。使用具体的经验星座，SFB调查个人，集体和机构行为者在不同的情况下如何实践，过程和收费的意义移民。这种移徙的产生被理解为一种动态的谈判：在一个以权力不对称为特征的有争议的过程中，移徙被主题化、问题化，并与其他社会发展联系在一起。因此，移徙的产生不仅创造、稳定或改变了人们的实际流动，而且也创造、稳定或改变了社会秩序和知识体系。跨学科联合体的共同研究问题是：1）如何以及与哪些意义是移民生产？由谁以何种方式、以何种利益、资源、手段和做法参与？2)社会对移徙的态度如何以及为何发生变化？3)移徙的产生如何影响人们的看法？它对社会结构和社会变革进程有什么影响？移徙的产生及其意义是基于对人、群体和做法的分类。这些被浓缩成社会人物，反过来又可以影响谈判进程。因此，SFB项目组A致力于研究移徙数字及其在个人和社会层面的出现、复制和有效性。迁移的产生还需要特定的基础设施，以创建或限制移动性和归属的选项。这些基础设施和与之相关的参与者是项目组B的主题。此外，移徙流动总是具有空间层面。移民的产生也创造和使用空间和空间想象力。因此，项目组C侧重于移徙空间。在SFB中，数字、基础设施和空间被理解为产生移民的中心媒介。通过研究如何看待移民，观察和赋予意义，以及在这个过程中如何（重新）产生移民的社会结构，SFB将移民研究作为整个社会的研究。研究和学术界也参与移徙的产生，因此也成为研究对象。因此，合作研究中心的长期目标是发展一种关于移徙的社会生产的反思性理论。

The Collaborative Research Center (SFB) aims to change the way we look at migration. It assumes that migration is the product of a societal production process, which in turn fundamentally changes societies. Using concrete empirical constellations, the SFB investigates how individual, collective and institutional actors in different contexts practice, process and charge migration with meaning. This production of migration is understood as a dynamic negotiation: In a contested process marked by power asymmetries, migration is (de)thematized, (de)problematized, and linked to other societal developments. By this, the production of migration not only creates, stabilizes or changes physical movements of people, but also social orders and knowledge systems. The shared research questions of the interdisciplinary consortium are: 1) How and with which meanings is migration produced? Who is involved in which ways and with which interests, resources, instruments and practices? 2) How and why does the societal approach to migration change? 3) How does the production of migration influence perceptions? And what consequences does it have for social structures and processes of societal change? The production of migration and its meanings is based on categorizations of people, groups and practices. These are condensed into social figures, which in turn can influence processes of negotiation. Project Group A of the SFB is therefore dedicated to the figures of migration and their emergence, reproduction and effectiveness - both on individual and societal levels. The production of migration also requires specific infrastructures that create or restrict options for mobility and belonging. These infrastructures and the actors associated with them are the subject of Project Group B. Moreover, migratory movements always have a spatial dimension. The production of migration, too, creates and uses spaces and spatial imaginations. Project Group C therefore focuses on the spaces of migration. In the SFB, figures, infrastructures and spaces are understood as central media of the production of migration. By examining how migration is conceived, observed and attributed with meaning, and how in this process societal structures of migration are (re-)produced, the SFB conducts migration research as research of the society as a whole. Research and academia are involved in the production of migration, too, and they thus also become an object of study. The long-term goal of the Collaborative Research Centre is therefore to develop a reflexive theory of the social production of migration.