Chinese Immigration Law and Policy (2014-2019)

Perspectives of lawmakers, administrators and immigrants

Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican, Prof. Dr. Björn Ahl

Duration
Funding phase: 2014-2019; Budget: 333.500 €

Further information:
http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/258454708
http://www.michaela-pelican.com/research_migration.php#China-immigration

The project studies changes in China's migration policies since 2012 and their impact on the situation of African businesspeople and students in southern China. The following PhD projects are/were conntected to the project: Zhou Yang 'Intercultural Marriage, Legal Status and Social Belonging in China: Chinese-African Couples and Families in Guangzhou' (completed 2017); Séverin Kaji 'Student Migration from Cameroon to China: Government Rhetoric and Student Experiences'; Lai Pik Chan 'Foreign English Teachers in China – Opportunities and Challenges'.

Gender, (In-)Equality and Economic Change

The Impacts of Economic Transformations on Gender Relations among the Dayak Benuaq in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Support: Fritz Thyssen Foundation (travel grant)

Project management: PD Dr. Michaela Haug

Website: http://ethnologie.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=79

Duration
2016 - 2019
Field work from July 2016 until April 2017; Budget: 20.324 €

This research project investigates the gender-specific effects of recent economic and environmental change on Dayak Societies in Indonesian Borneo. Current gender relations of the Dayak Benuaq are systematically explored on three levels: the ideal level, the normative level and the level of everyday social practice. The project further examines how the increasing integration of the Dayak Benuaq into new economic systems shapes processes by which gender identities, gender roles, and gender relations are (re-)negotiated in diverse contexts and situations. Special attention is paid to the diverse ways in which gender is interwoven with other factors such as class, education, ethnic identity and age in the formation of new inequalities.

UoC Forum - CHINA global - Ideas, Values, Practices

Support: German Excellence Initiative | Excellent Research Support Program (ERSP) | UoC

Project management: Prof. Dr. Susanne Brandtstädter, Prof. Dr. Wilfried Hinsch
Staff: Amtul Shaheen M.A.
Website: china-global.uni-koeln.de

Duration
1. Funding phase: 2017-2018; Budget: 79.450 €
2. Fundig phase:  2019

UoC Forum - Ethnicity as a political resource

Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe

Support: Excellent Research Support Programme, University of Cologne

Project management: Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican, Dr. Albert Manke
Staff: Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Anja Becker, Dr. Antonio Sáez-Arance, Dr. Tobias Schwarz, Sofie Steinberger
Website: http://ethnicity-forum.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=19237

Duration
Funding Phase: 2013-2016, EUR 167,000

Home, Boundaries, and Translocal Connectedness in Russia’s Exclave of Kaliningrad

Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Project management: Dr. Rita Sanders

Duration
Funding phase: 2016-2018 (36 months); Budget: 307.292 €

LINGS – Local Institutions in Globalized Societies

Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Cooperation Partners: University of Hamburg, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Prof. Dr. M. Schnegg

Project management: Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
Staff: Dr. Diego Menestrey Schwieger, Thekla Kelbert, M.A.
Website: www.lings-net.de

Duration
1st funding phase 2010-2013 (36 months); Budget: 321.800 € (for subproject Cologne)
2nd funding phase 2014-2016 (36 months); Budget: 448.100 € (for subproject Cologne)
3rd funding phase 2016-2019; Budget: 448,100 € (for subproject Cologne)

ITN REAL – Resilience in East African Landscapes

Identifying critical thresholds and sustainable trajectories – past, present and future

Support: European Union
Cooperation Partners: Seven full participant research centers in Europe and nine international associate partners

Project management: Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
Staff: Dr. Eric Kioko,
Website: http://www.real-project.eu/

ESR 7: Turning conflict into coexistence: cross-cutting ties and institutions in the agro-pastoral borderlands of Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya. Researcher: Eric Mutisya Kioko

ESR 10: Negotiating land in a contested environment. Researcher: Marie Ladekjær Gravesen

Duration
Funding phase 2013-2017 (48 months)

Executive summary of project and sub-projects (pdf)

FOR 1501 RCR | B1 Violent Regulation and Social-Ecological Transformation of Wetland Ecosystems in East Africa

Project B1 of Research Unit 1501 "Resilience, Collapse and Reorganization in Social Ecological Systems of Africa’s Savannahs"

Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Cooperation Partners: University of Bonn

Project management: Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
Staff: Michael Odhiambo M.sc.
Website: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/168576326?language=en

Duration
1. Funding Phase 2010-2013 (36 months) | Budget Sub-Project: 111.881 €

FOR 1501 RCR | B3 Global Economic Influences and Local Labor Relations in the Reorganization of an Agro-Industrial Center

Sub-Project B3 of Research Unit 1501 Resilience, Collapse and Reorganization in Social-Ecological Systems of East and South Africa’s Savannahs (RCR)

Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Cooperation Partners: University of Bonn

Project management: Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
Staff: Gerda Kuiper, M.A.
Website: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/237677796?language=en

Duration:
2. Funding Phase 2013-2016 (36 months) | Budjet Sub-Projekt: 154.900 €

FOR 1501 RCR | C3: In Search of Order: Institutional Change, Violent Regulation and Environmental Knowledge under Conditions of Rapid Social Ecological Change

Sub-Project C3 of Research Unit 1501 Resilience, Collapse and Reorganization in Social-Ecological Systems of East and South Africa’s Savannahs (RCR)

Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Cooperation Partners: University of Bonn

Project management: Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
Staff: Anja Becker, M.A., Hauke Vehrs, M.A.
Website: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/168577461?language=en

Duration
1. Funding Phase 2010-2013 (36 months) | Budget Sub-Project 394.000 €
2. Funding Phase 2013-2016 (36 months) | Budget Sub-Project 150.600 €