Petra Bendel is Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Centre for Area Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her fields of expertise include the European and German refugee and asylum system as well as integration policy at various political levels. Petra Bendel is Chair of the Advisory Council of the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF), a Member of the Federal Government’s Expert Commission on the Framework Conditions for Integration and an advisor for various expert committees.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Thym is Professor of Public, European and International Law at the University of Konstanz and Director of the University’s Research Centre for Immigration & Asylum Law (FZAA). His work focuses on German, European and international immigration and refugee law, issues related to citizenship and integration, the development of the European Union, as well as basic legal protection in Germany and Europe. He is a key researcher in the “Cultural Principles of Integration” Cluster of Excellence at the University of Konstanz. Prof. Dr. Thym is regularly called to speak as an expert at hearings of the Committee on Internal Affairs of the German Bundestag, he represents the University of Konstanz in the Research Institute for Social Cohesion and is a Member of the Federal Government’s Expert Commission on the Framework Conditions for Integration.
Claudia Diehl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Konstanz. Her fields of expertise are international population movements, socio-cultural and identification-related integration processes of immigrants (with a special focus on generational change), as well as ethnic demarcation processes such as xenophobia and discrimination. Prof. Dr. Diehl is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Family Affairs at the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
Viola B. Georgi is Professor for Diversity Education at the University of Hildesheim Foundation and Director of the “Zentrum für Bildungsintegration. Diversity und Demokratie in Migrationsgesellschaften” (Centre for Education Integration. Diversity and Democracy in Migration Societies). Her work focuses on, among other issues, diversity, education, heterogenity in school, educational media, historical-political education in the migration society, democracy education and citizenship education. Viola Georgi is involved as an advisor in various expert committees and civil society organisations and a Member of the Federal Government’s Expert Commission on the Framework Conditions for Integration.
Christian Joppke is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bern. His fields of expertise include the comparative study of immigration and integration policies, as well as religion, citizenship, and multiculturalism.
Birgit Leyendecker was appointed Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Family Research (ICFR), part of the Faculty of Psychology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), in 2010. Her research focuses include the educational integration of (new) immigrant children and refugee children and families; families and gender diversity; the positive development of immigrant children and their families; and multilingualism. She is a member of the Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
Panu Poutvaara is Professor of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and Director of the ifo Center for International Institutional Comparisons and Migration Research, ifo Institute. His research focuses include the impact of migration opportunities on human capital formation, family migration, populism, and the welfare effects of immigration.
Hans Vorländer holds the Chair for Political Theory and the History of Political Thought at the Technische Universität Dresden. He is founder and director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism and Democracy and of the Mercator Forum on Migration and Democracy at the Technische Universität Dresden. Prof. Vorländer is a Member of the Federal Government’s Expert Commission on the Framework Conditions for Integration.
Sieglinde Rosenberger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include integration, migration and asylum policy, policy at the intersection of religion and gender, the politicisation of migration, and protests against asylum and deportation policies.
Former members:
Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Bauer
Member (2011–2019) and Chairman (2016–2019), Faculty of Management and Economics at the University of Bochum, RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen
Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld
Member (2008–2016) and Chairwoman (2012–2016), Department of Public Law at the University of Göttingen, Justice of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court
Prof. Dr. Klaus. J. Bade
Member and Chairman (2008–2012), Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück
Prof. Dr. Michael Bommes (†)
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos
Center for Research on Education and School Development at the TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Gianni D'Amato
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Heinz Faßmann
Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu
Faculty of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences at the University of Bremen
Prof. Dr. Ursula Neumann
Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries
Faculty of Social Science at the University of Bochum
Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer
Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Hacı Halil Uslucan
Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection at the University of Göttingen, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
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