Regina Römhild

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin · Department of European Ethnology

My article, from the perspective of critical Europeanization studies, argues to consider a postmigratory approach for revisiting not only the ‘nation’ but also ‘Europe’ – as being similarly constituted by long-term colonial and postcolonial migration movements, as well as by Afropean entanglements across a Black Mediterranean. Therefore, migrancy i...

Migration is not a state of emergency, but a basic existential experience of humanity. It shapes contemporary societies by challenging established orders, creating transnational spaces beyond national hegemonies, creating new economies, influencing urban and communal ways of life, making inequality and precariousness visible locally and globally. M...

“Beyond Borders” is the focal topic of this new edition of the “Yearbook Migration and Society”. The view goes from the border as a basic figure of demarcation to the border area as a potential for overcoming it. Migration and borders are conditional on each other. There may also be inner migration, movements within a state, but even in this case,...

Migration is not a state of emergency, but a basic existential experience of humanity. It shapes contemporary societies by challenging established orders, creating transnational spaces beyond national hegemonies, creating new economies, influencing urban and communal ways of life, making inequality and precariousness visible locally and globally. M...

Um das Verhältnis zwischen Migration und Gesellschaft neu denken zu können, kehren Marc Hill und Erol Yildiz etablierte Gewissheiten um und beziehen die Erfahrung von Migration mit ein. Ihr Fokus richtet sich auf geteilte Geschichten, aus denen sich die Vielheit des urbanen Zusammenlebens erschließt. Migration wird so zum Ausgangspunkt weiterer ges...

Um das Verhältnis zwischen Migration und Gesellschaft neu denken zu können, kehren Marc Hill und Erol Yildiz etablierte Gewissheiten um und beziehen die Erfahrung von Migration mit ein. Ihr Fokus richtet sich auf geteilte Geschichten, aus denen sich die Vielheit des urbanen Zusammenlebens erschließt. Migration wird so zum Ausgangspunkt weiterer ges...

With reference to anthropologist Ina-Maria Greverus’ pioneering analyses of human-environment relations since the 1970s, the article pushes the idea of Heimat further to the more processual concept of Beheimatung. This is especially relevant for an anthropology of the transnational worlds of (post-)migrant societies with their current negotiation o...

This article draws on an ongoing self-reflexive debate in German migration research. It is considered that migration research has much contributed to (re)produce subject categories and concepts of the nation-state which it, at the same time, aims to criticize. With its specific focus on diverse figures and formations of the migrant, on ethnic minor...

In 2015 more than one million refugees were seeking protection in the EU, the majority fleeing war and violence in the Middle East and heading towards a few EU-member states like Austria, Germany and Sweden. This is a small number compared to the overall prob-lem of persons being forced to leave their homes because of war and persecution. In 2016 t...

This contribution starts from the assumption that Europe is shaped and constructed by a globally entangled, internal ‘geography of imagination‘ (Michel-Rolph Trouillot), rendering Europe itself as an uneven, postcolonial landscape with north/western ‘centres‘ and south/eastern ‘peripheries‘. While this imaginary geography is still informing the con...

Durch Migration entstehen vielfältige Formen der Mobilität, die verschiedene Orte, Lebensweisen und Visionen miteinander verbinden. Menschen, die migrieren, schaffen Räume, die sich sowohl von denen unterscheiden, die sie verlassen haben, als auch von jenen, die neu bezogen wurden. So werden Strukturen, Kulturen und Kommunikationsformen erschaffen,...

Der Beitrag problematisiert die Adaption des Diversitätsbegriffs in der Migrationsforschung: Denn damit wird eine Abkehr von den üblichen ethnischen Sortiermustern suggeriert, die jedoch empirisch nicht wirklich eingelöst wird. So bezeichnet Diversität in der deutschsprachigen Migrationsforschung und im öffentlichen Diskurs zur „Integration“ weiter...

Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of »reflexive« (Ulrich Beck), »multiple« (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), »entangled« (Shalini Randeria) and »global« (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and imm...

From the review by Guðrún Helgadóttir (Annals of Tourism Research, 45: 184–185): “The title and the contents are as thought-provoking as critical theory aims to be [...] the descriptions, analysis, and theoretical framework has global relevance for tourism studies and for the social sciences in general […] the issues are vividly laid out and analyz...

Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of »reflexive« (Ulrich Beck), »multiple« (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), »entangled« (Shalini Randeria) and »global« (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and imm...

Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of »reflexive« (Ulrich Beck), »multiple« (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), »entangled« (Shalini Randeria) and »global« (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and imm...

„Dieses ewige ,Wo gehöre ich hin?‘, das gibt’s bei mir nicht“, sagt der Regisseur Fatih Akin am Schluss seines Dokumentarfilms „Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren“ aus dem Jahr 2000. Seine Haltung teilen viele – vor allem junge – Migranten. Sie haben längst gelernt, mit mehreren Heimaten zu leben, sich selbst transnationale kulturelle Räume zu scha...

This article seeks to Europeanise and to "anthropologise" the current debate on precariousness: a debate which is, predominantly, led under the premise of the (Western European) nation state, and its concepts of a national solidarity among national subjects with national rights to citizenship. By contrast, and by drawing on ethnographic research in...

Integration wurde in den letzten Jahren auch in Deutschland zum zentralen Schlagwort in der Migrationsdebatte. Während das Konzept einerseits positiv »Teilhabe« verspricht, fungiert es in der deutschen Migrationspolitik potentiell als Exklusionsmechanismus. Dieses Buch nimmt aus Perspektiven der Politik, Wissenschaft, Kunst und des Aktivismus das I...

Heute über Migration nach Europa zu reden, heißt fast immer von der »Festung Europa« zu sprechen. Ins kollektive Gedächtnis haben sich seit über einer Dekade die entsprechenden Bilder eingespeist: überladene Schiffe, skrupellose Menschenhändler, anonyme Massen armer Flüchtlinge. Mal werden sie voller Empathie, mal mit Ablehnung betrachtet. Selten j...

Russian German immigrants represent a specific segment in German "multiculture." Officially, they are perceived as late returning ethnic Germans from the former Eastern block (Bade 1992; Delfs 1993). Entering the German labor market, however, this privileged immigrant status conflicts with experiences of ethnicization, social devaluation and unempl...

The article explores the increasing gap between the cultural dynamics of transnationalisation in Germany and the national self-perception of the German society. While concepts of "in-migration" (Zuwanderung) and "integration" still stick to notions of the nation-state as beinga "container" embracing and controlling a population and a culture of its...

The Germans of Siberia Are Back Since the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe, immigrants of German origin have come back from Russia to settle in Germany. These « repatriates » (Aussiedler) come from rural areas. At times when they suffered discrimination as a minority in the Soviet Union, they declared their faithfulness to value...