ERC: Transforming Migration: Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus (TRANSFORmIG)

At a glance

Project duration
03/2013  – 02/2018
DFG classification of subject areas

Social Sciences

Project description

The TRANSFORmIG project entails interdisciplinary, multi-method research in selected localities in Great Britain, Germany and Poland. Spanning sociology, anthropology, history and media studies, the project investigates with the help of a longitudinal qualitative study, individual and group interviews, ethnography and discourse analysis how people’s attitudes and skills to act in diverse societies change over time and in dependence with historical and contemporary conditions.Findings will significantly advance social scientific understanding of the processes of transnational transfer of values and attitudes and the spread of intercultural competences under the condition of growing diversification of societies.

Project head

  • Person

    Prof. Dr. Magdalena Nowicka

    • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Cooperation partners

  • Cooperation partner
    Non-university research institutionGermany

    Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science