Research Projects: Completed
Chinese Immigration Law and Policy (2014-2019)

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

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=79Duration
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

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.deDuration
1. Funding phase: 2017-2018; Budget: 79.450 €
2. Fundig phase: 2019
UoC Forum - Ethnicity as a political resource

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=19237Duration
Funding Phase: 2013-2016, EUR 167,000
Home, Boundaries, and Translocal Connectedness in Russia’s Exclave of Kaliningrad

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

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

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=enDuration:
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

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