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Cluster 1: The regulation of citizenship, immigration and diversity

Citizenship rights for immigrants: National paths and transnational convergence in Europe, North America and Australia
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Dr. Ines Michalowski, Stine Waibel
2007-2012
WZB
The organization of religious diversity in the military
Dr. Ines Michalowski
2008-2013
WZB and Transatlantic Academy (October 2008 - July 2009)

Cluster 2: The political mobilisation of immigration and diversity

The Transformation of Political Mobilisation and Communication in European Public Spheres (EUROPUB)
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
2000-2012
European Commission, 5th Framework Programme (1 400 000 Euro)
The political sociology of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Dr. Céline Teney
2011-2014
WZB
The diffusion of anti-immigrant violence in Germany, 1990-1999
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Robert Braun (Cornell University)
2007-2012
WZB

Cluster 3: Prejudice and anti-immigrant sentiments

The group threat hypothesis revisited with geographically weighted regression
Dr. Céline Teney
2010-2012

Cluster 4: Cultural assimilation, religiosity and interethnic contacts

Gender differences in Islamic religiosity and gender role values
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann
Jana Scheible
2011
WZB
Finding a place for Islam in Europe: Cultural interactions between Muslim immigrants and receiving societies (EURISLAM)
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Sarah Carol, Jean Tillie (Universiteit van Amsterdam); Dirk Jacobs (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Paul Statham (University of Bristol), Marco Giugni (Université de Genève), Manlio Cinalli (Sciences Po Paris), Jonathan Laurence (Boston College)
2009-2012
European Commission, 7th Framework Programme
Is blood thicker than water? Family and gender values and their impact on interethnic contacts among Pakistanis and Turks in Germany and the United Kingdom (PhD project)
Sarah Carol
2009-2012
The impact of state-religion regulation on interethnic contacts of first and second-generation Turkish and ex-Yugoslav Muslim Immigrants in Germany, France and the United Kingdom (PhD project)
2009-2012

Cluster 5: The socio-economic integration of immigrants

Ethnic educational inequality: The role of neighbourhood contexts
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann, Karen Phalet (University of Leuven), Patrick Deboosere (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Karel Neels (University of Antwerpen)
2007-2010
Six Country Immigrant Integration Comparative Survey (SCIICS)
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Evelyn Ersanilli (University of Oxford)
Sarah Carol, Dr. Marc Helbling, Jutta Höhne, Dr. Bram Lancee, Dr. Ines Michalowski, Dr. Céline Teney, Susanne Veit, Mareike Wagner
2008-2012
WZB
Ethnic Inequality in the Labour Market
Dr. Bram Lancee
2011-2013
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion in Germany
Dr. Bram Lancee
2011-2013
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Gender and ethnicity: A double comparison of labour market outcomes in Germany
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann
Jutta Höhne
2011-2012
WZB

Cluster 6: Solidarity, trust, and cooperation in diverse communities

The role of group competition and cultural group composition in the provision of public goods: An evolutionary approach
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Susanne Rebers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Jeroen van den Bergh (Universidad de Barcelona); Julian Garcia (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
2005-2012
Dutch Science Foundation
Ethnische Vielfalt, soziales Vertrauen und Zivilengagement
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Anna Ute Dunkel, Merlin Schaeffer, Susanne Veit
2008-2011
Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend
The Relation between Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion – Immigration, Perceptions of Diversity and the Potentials for Civic, Collective Action
Merlin Schaeffer
2009-2012
Diversity and cooperation in organisational contexts: Comparative qualitative studies of civic engagement in schools and sports clubs (PhD project)
Anna Ute Dunkel
2009-2012
Ethnic diversity, trust and cooperation in social dilemmas: Experiments on linking mechanisms (PhD project)
Susanne Veit
2010 - 2012

Completed Research Projects

Zweiter Integrationsindikatorenbericht der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Jutta Höhne
2011
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration
The heuristic potential of models of citizenship and immigrant integration for international comparisons
Dr. Ines Michalowski
2009-2011
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Nachwuchswissenschaftlernetzwerk)
Pim Fortuyn: The Evolution of a Media Phenomenon
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Jasper C. Muis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2006-2011
Integration requirements and citizenship tests
Dr. Ines Michalowski
2008-2011
WZB
Trade-offs between equality and difference: Immigrant integration, multiculturalism and the welfare state in cross-national perspective
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
2009-2011
WZB
Host culture adoption and ethnic retention among Turkish immigrants and their descendants in France, Germany, and the Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Evelyn Ersanilli (now at University of Oxford)
2004-2010
Religion among Muslim minorities in Europe: Structural integration, religious socialisation and religious identities
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann, Karen Phalet (University of Leuven), Derya Güngör (University of Leuven), Olivier Klein (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
2007-2011
Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards immigrants: Evidence for threat or contact effects?
Dr. Elmar Schlüter, Ulrich Wagner (Marburg University), Peer Scheepers (Radboud University Nijmegen)
2009-2010
WZB
Restructuring political conflict in the age of globalisation
Dr. Marc Helbling, Hanspeter Kriesi (University of Zurich), Edgar Grande (University of Munich), Martin Dolezal (University of Vienna), Swen Hutter (University of Munich), Dominic Hoeglinger (University of Zurich), Bruno Wüest (University of Zurich)
2006-2010
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 536), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Host country cultural capital and labour market trajectories of immigrants in Germany
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Jutta Höhne
2009-2011
WZB
Switzerland: A nation-state or a multi-national state?
Dr. Marc Helbling, Nenad Stojanovic (Center for Democracy Aarau)
2009-2011
Swiss National Science Foundation, Center for Democracy Aarau, Center for Comparative and International Studies University and ETH Zurich
Islamophobia in Western Europe and North America
Dr. Marc Helbling, Stolle (McGill University), Allison Harell (Queen's University)
2009-2011
WZB
Germanophobia in Switzerland
Dr. Marc Helbling
2009-2011
WZB
Interethnic contact and residential segregation
Dr. Elmar Schlüter, Johannes Ullrich (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Peter Schmidt (Philipps-University Marburg)
2009-2011
University of Giessen
Mass media influences on anti-immigrant attitudes
Dr. Elmar Schlüter, Eldad Davidov (University of Zurich)
2009-2011
WZB
VEIL- Values, Equality and Differences in Liberal Democracies; Debates over Female Muslim Headscarves in Europe
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Doutje N. Lettinga, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2006-2010
First Integration Indicator Report
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Rahim Hajji, in cooperation with Jutta Höhne (WZB), Miriam Martin, Dr. Dietrich Engels, in cooperation with Friedrich Scheller (ISG Köln)
2008-2009
Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration
Mobilization on Ethnic Relations, Citizenship, and Immigration (MERCI)
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, et al.
1994-2000
Quality of multicultural democracy in Amsterdam and Berlin: civic community, integration and the political opportunity structure (QMD)
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Maria Berger (Universität Amsterdam), Christian Galonska
2001-2004
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Biographic consequences of parent child-separation during the migration process: The case of guest-worker migration to Germany
Rahim Hajji
2008