Vera Hanewinkel, Feline Engling Cardoso

Production Site - The Podcast about the Societal Negotiation of Migration

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Production Site is the podcast of Collaborative Research Centre “Production of Migration” (SFB 1604): Together with international researchers and experts, we discuss current topics in migration research, explore how migration is negotiated within society, and examine these processes from the perspective of reflexive migration research. The podcast is produced by the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University.

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Vera Hanewinkel, Feline Engling Cardoso

Episodes

#4 – The New Minority 06.07.2026 32:00

Large cities are becoming increasingly diverse. In some neighborhoods, no single group constitutes a numerical majority anymore — people without a migration background have become one minority among many. What does this mean for social cohesion and prevailing ideas about integration? Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have researched these questions and discuss their find...

#3 – Stadtbild(er) 06.07.2026 49:08

Herbst 2025: Die sogenannte Stadtbilddebatte, angestoßen vom Bundeskanzler und CDU-Vorsitzenden Friedrich Merz, erhitzt die Gemüter: Migration als „Problem im Stadtbild?“ Anlass genug, einmal genauer über das Verhältnis von Migration und Stadt nachzudenken. Wie und von wem wird Wissen über Migration in der Stadt produziert? Wie wird Migration verräumlicht? Welche machtvollen Begriffe und Kategorie...

#2 – Der Grenzgänger 29.06.2026 36:22

Wie erlebte in den 1980er Jahren ein als türkischer Straßenkehrer verkleideter Deutscher den Alltag in einer migrantisierten Arbeitswelt? Welche Erfahrungen machte er in dieser Rolle und wie haben sie seine Sicht auf die deutsche Gesellschaft geprägt? Darüber spricht der Journalist Gerhard Kromschröder in dieser Folge. Dabei geht es auch um Alltagsrassismus, seine Recherchen in der rechten Szene,...

#1 – The Forerunner 29.06.2026 42:03

She helped shape migration research in Germany during its earliest days: Czarina Wilpert. As a scholar who had herself migrated, how did she carve out a place in a field dominated by white men? What life experiences informed her research and her perspective on immigrants and their descendants? And what was she able to see that researchers with a “purely German gaze” could not?

#0 – In Portrait 29.06.2026 28:50

In this bonus episode, we take a closer look at the Collaborative Research Centre “The Production of Migration” (SFB 1604). What terms and concepts does it use, and how is it structured? What does “Production of Migration” actually mean? And why does the research conducted in the SFB affect us all? Science communicators Feline Engling Cardoso and Vera Hanewinkel host this episode and meet with res...