Completed Projects

Prof. Dr. Giuliano Bonoli (University of Lausanne),
Prof. Dr. Flavia Fossati (Uni Vienna),
Julie Lacroix (University of Geneva),
Dr. Fabienne Liechti (University of Lausanne),
Dr. Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchâtel)

Staff
Thomas Tichelbäcker
Lea Portmann (University of Lucerne)

Duration: 2018 -
Funding: Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen BWO Switzerland, Swiss National Science Foundation, SFM Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, HR Swiss

When Do Migration Aspirations Materialize?

Head
Dr. Daniel Auer, Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Dr. Friederike Römer (University of Bremen), Dr. Jasper Tjaden

Duration: 2018 -

Cultural Interactions between Muslim Immigrants and Receiving Societies (EURISLAM)

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Jean Tillie (Universiteit van Amsterdam); Prof. Dirk Jacobs (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Prof. Paul Statham (University of Bristol), Prof. Marco Giugni (Université de Genève), Prof. Manlio Cinalli (Sciences Po Paris),

Staff
Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol, Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski, Evelyn Ersanilli, PhD (University of Oxford); Prof. Jonathan Laurence (Boston College)

Duration: 2009 - 2016
Funding: European Commission, 7th Framework Programme

Discrimination of Social Welfare Applicants in the German Bureaucracy

Head
Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.

Duration: 2014 -
Funding: WZB

Stateways versus Folkways: The Role of Authority Approval in Intergroup Contact

Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.

Duration: 2015 - 2019
Funding: WZB

Ambassadors of Peace? Intergroup Contact and Conflict Resolution in Israel

Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Cyrus Samii (New York University, USA)

Duration: 2012-
Funding: USAID, USIP (through New York University, USA)

Indicators of Citizenship Rights for Immigrants (ICRI)

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski

Duration: 2007 - 2017
Funding: WZB

Ethnic Discrimination on the Labor Market in Comparative Perspective

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Dr. Susanne Veit

Staff
Ruta Yemane

Duration: 2013 - 2018
Funding: WZB

RADIKAL: Religiöser Extremismus und Radikalisierung aus Migrations- und Integrationstheoretischer Perspektive

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick (IKG)

Staff
Eylem Kanol, La Toya Waha (IKG)

Duration: 2017 - 2019
Funding: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)

Addressing Violent Inter-Group Conflict from the Bottom Up?

Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.

Duration: 2016 - 2017
Funding: WZB

German Public Opinion and the Refugee Crisis: Mechanisms of Support and Opposition

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.

Staff
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski, Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D., Dr. Susanne Veit, Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.

Duration: 2015 - 2017
Funding: WZB

Evangelical Missions and Democratic Values

Head
Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.

Duration: 2014 - 2017
Funding: Center for the Study of Development Strategies (through Columbia University)

Contested Boundaries: Explaining Where Ethno-Racial Diversity Provokes Neighbourhood Conflict

Head
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer, Joscha Legewie (New York University)

Duration: 2013 - 2015
Funding: WZB

Income Advantages of Poorly-Qualified Immigrant Minorities

Head
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer, Prof. Dr. Céline Teney, Jutta Höhne

Duration: 2013 - 2015
Funding: WZB

Over-Education among Immigrants in Germany

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Staff
Verena Seibel

Duration: 2011 - 2015
Funding: Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Ethnic Riots and Pro-Social Behavior: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Head
Prof. Dr. Max Schaub, Anselm Frieder Hager, Ph.D.
Krzysztof Krakowski (EUI)

Duration: 2016 -
Funding: WZB, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, EUI

Cultural Rights of Native Majorities between Universalism and Minority Rights

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Liav Orgad

Duration: 2014-
Funding: WZB

Projects completed before 2016

Ethnic Diversity, Social Trust and Civic Engagement

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Staff
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer, Dr. Susanne Veit, Anna Ute Dunkel

Duration: 2008 - 2012
Funding: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend

Ethnic Diversity and Cooperation. Causality, Linking Mechanisms, and Context

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Staff
Dr. Susanne Veit

Duration: 2010 - 2014
Funding: WZB

Integration Requirements and Citizenship Tests

Head
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski

Duration: 2008 - 2014
Funding: WZB

Gender and Migration on the Labour Market: Additive or Interacting Disadvantages in Germany?

Head
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann

Staff
Jutta Höhne

Duration: 2011 - 2013
Funding: WZB

Evaluations of Immigration- and Integration Policies

Head
Dr. Daniel Auer
Prof. Dr. Flavia Fossati (University of Vienna),
Prof. Dr. Carlos Vargs-Silva (Oxford University),
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kurt (HES-SO Valais),
Dennis Egger (Berkeley University),
Dr. Johannes Kunz (Monash University),
Dr. Damaris Rose (Uni Cologne)

Staff
Thomas Tichelbäcker

Duration: 2018 -
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation

Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market: The Role of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital

Head
Prof. Dr. Bram Lancee

Duration: 2011 - 2013
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

The Meaning of Being German, American, Singaporean: An Inductive Approach to National Identity.

Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.

Johannes Kopf-Beck (Max Planck Institut für Psychatrie, München); Valerie Purdie-Vaughns (Columbia University); Shirlena Huang (National University of Singapore); Eric Thompson (National University of Singapore)

Duration: 2012 -
Funding: WZB, Columbia University and National University of Singapore

Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion: Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Staff
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer

Duration: 2009 - 2013
Funding: WZB

Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion in Germany

Head
Prof. Dr. Bram Lancee

Duration: 2011 - 2013
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Is Blood Thicker than Water? Family and Gender Values and Their Impact on the Social Distance between Muslim Migrants and Natives in Western Europe

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Staff
Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol

Duration: 2009 - 2013
Funding: WZB

Naturalization of Immigrants: Obstacles and Opportunities in German Municipalities

Head
Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Rafaela Dancygier, Ph.D. (Princeton University, USA)
Jeyhun Alizade (Princeton University)

Duration: 2015-
Funding: University Center for Human Values and The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University

The Group Threat Hypothesis Revisited: A Spatial Analysis of NPD Electoral Support

Head
Prof. Dr. Céline Teney

Duration: 2010 - 2012
Funding: WZB

Socio-Cultural Determinants of Labour-Market Integration of Immigrants

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Jutta Höhne

Duration: 2009 - 2012
Funding: WZB

The Heuristic Potential of Models of Citizenship and Immigrant Integration for International Comparisons

Head
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski

Duration: 2009 - 2012
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Nachwuchswissenschaftlernetzwerk)

Ethnic Diversity, Social Trust and Civic Engagement

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Staff
Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer, Dr. Susanne Veit, Anna Ute Dunkel

Duration: 2008 - 2012
Funding: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend

The Diffusion of Anti-Immigrant Violence in Germany, 1990-1999

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Duration: 2007 - 2012
Funding: WZB

Ethnic Educational Inequality: The Role of Neighbourhood Contexts

Head
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann, Prof. Karen Phalet (University of Leuven), Patrick Deboosere (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Karel Neels (University of Antwerpen)

Duration: 2007 - 2012
Funding: WZB

The Role of Group Competition and Cultural Group Composition in the Provision of Public Goods: An Evolutionary Approach

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Jeroen van den Bergh, PhD (Universidad de Barcelona), Susanne Rebers, PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Dr. Julian Garcia (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Duration: 2005 - 2012
Funding: Dutch Science Foundation

Zweiter Integrationsindikatorenbericht der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Staff
Jutta Höhne

Duration: 2011
Funding: Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration

Switzerland: A Nation-State or a Multi-National State?

Head
Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling, Nenad Stojanovic (Center for Democracy Aarau)

Duration: 2009 - 2011
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation, Center for Democracy Aarau, Center for Comparative and International Studies University and ETH Zurich

Germanophobia in Switzerland

Head
Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling

Duration: 2009 - 2011
Funding: WZB

Islamophobia in Western Europe and North America

Head
Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling, Prof. Dietlind Stolle (McGill University), Allison Harell (Queen's University)

Duration: 2009 - 2011
Funding: WZB

Interethnic Contact and Residential Segregation

Head
Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter, Dr. Johannes Ullrich (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Dr. Peter Schmidt (Philipps-University Marburg)

Duration: 2009 - 2011
Fundiung: University of Giessen

Mass Media Influences on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

Head
Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter, Dr. Eldad Davidov (University of Zurich)

Duration: 2009 - 2011
Funding: WZB

The Organization of Religious Diversity in the Military

Head
Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski

Duration: 2008-
Funding: WZB and Transatlantic Academy (October 2008 - July 2009)

Religion among Muslim Minorities in Europe: Structural Integration, Religious Socialisation and Religious Identities

Head
Dr. Fenella Fleischmann, Prof. Karen Phalet (University of Leuven), Derya Güngör (University of Leuven), Olivier Klein (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Duration: 2007 - 2011
Funding: WZB

Trade-Offs between Equality and Difference: Immigrant Integration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State in Cross-National Perspective

Staff
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Duration: 2009 - 2010
Funding: WZB

Ethnic Diversity and Attitudes towards Immigrants: Evidence for Threat or Contact Effects?

Head
Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter, Ulrich Wagner (Marburg University, Germany), Peer Scheepers (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Duration: 2009 - 2010
Funding: WZB

Restructuring Political Conflict in the Age of Globalisation

Head
Prof. 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)

Duration: 2006 - 2010
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 536), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Host Culture Adoption and Ethnic Retention among Turkish Immigrants and their Descendants in France, Germany, and the Netherlands

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Staff
Evelyn Ersanilli, PhD

Duration: 2004 - 2010
Funding: WZB

Erster Indikatorenbericht "Integration in Deutschland"

Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Rahim Hajji, Dr. Dietrich Engels (ISG Köln)

Staff
Jutta Höhne, Miriam Martin (ISG Köln); Friedrich Scheller (ISG Köln)

Duration: 2008 - 2009
Funding: Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration

Biographic Consequences of Parent Child-Separation during the Migration Process: The Case of Guest-Worker Migration to Germany

Head
Prof. Dr. Rahim Hajji

Duration: 2008
Funding: WZB