Diversity research working group

In several working meetings, the current research projects and questions of the academics working in this group were presented and an outlook was given on new research questions developing from this. This gave rise to the idea of the public lecture series "Migration, Gender and Social Practice", which has been inviting academics twice a year since the 2016 summer semester.

For the kick-off event, which was organized in cooperation with the Centre of Research for Society and Sustainability (CeSSt), the founder of the Institute for Critical Educational Research gUG, Dr. Heike Niedrig from Hamburg, gave a lecture on "The discursive construction of "refugees" - gender-theoretical and postcolonial analysis perspectives "7 . In another event, Prof. Dr. Susanne Spindler (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences) gave a lecture on the topic of "Gender and migration in focus - pitfalls and challenges for social work". In the lecture events, the significance of gender in the context of migration for social work is discussed with guests from academia and practice. As this subject area is very strongly linked to attributions and positioning, these became an occasion for discussion in order to reflect on (one's own and assigned) constructions of belonging, which are formed by gender and origin, but also, for example, age and class.

The joint research project "Successful diversity in a socio-spatial context. On the transformation of professional and civil society social work through immigration (ProZiS)", funded by the BMBF, which will be implemented at the University of Kassel and Fulda University of Applied Sciences between 2018 and 2020.