Author Archives: Steffen

During the last three months, I contributed as an external consultant to a research project of the International Organization for Migration. The project used social networking sites to target forced migrants in Germany. It has been a great pleasure to … Continued

Together with Bernd Weiß, I recently authored two posts at the GESIS Blog. These short texts offer first insights from our recent study of German emigrants: Using Facebook and Instagram to sample German emigrants on a nearly global scale Preliminary … Continued

In August and September, Bernd Weiß and I realized the German Emigrants Overseas Online Survey (GEOOS). Since I have been talking for years about the potential that the employment of Facebook advertisements holds for research on emigrants, it was great … Continued

The Meth@Mig Standing Committee has published its CfP for the annual IMISCOE conference in 2021. This time, we are especially interested in contributions that highlight 1) methodological challenges of conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemics and 2) research methods designed … Continued

The IMISCOE Standing Committee “Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research” (Meth@Mig) has launched a new series of online interviews which will identify and reflect on the promises and pitfalls of the digital revolution for migration studies. This series will … Continued

This week’s annual IMISCOE conference was an exciting experience. Due to the ongoing health crisis, the conference did not take place in Luxembourg (as initially planned) but went entirely online. The organizing committee did an excellent job adapting and redesigning … Continued

I recently have been invited to give a lecture at the MiReKoc International Summer School on Research Methods and Ethics in Migration Studies. This training school will take place between July 6 and 17 at Koç University in Istanbul. I’m … Continued

Last week I had the pleasure to participate in the second International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS) in Cairo. The conference, which took place from January 19 to 21, had been organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the … Continued

Great start into the new year: The article “Studies on the Acculturation of Young Refugees in the Educational Domain: A Scoping Review of Research and Methods” I co-authored has been published online fist in Adolescent Research Review on January, 1. … Continued

Together with Débora Maehler (GESIS) and Ulrike Krause (IMIS, Osnabrück University), I had the privilege to organize the German-Canadian Conference on Migration & Integration: Young (Forced) Migrants and their Families which took place at Osnabrück University earlier this week (November … Continued