For the disciplines represented at EHB, the highly topical and interlinked themes of migration and racism provide a broad field of research, which we examine and analyze from social work, health sciences, and legal perspectives. To date, there remains little research within social work, education, as well as nursing and health sciences on refugees, undocumented individuals, and people with insecure residency status. In addition, the specific situations of women and LGBTIQ individuals within these groups, as well as unaccompanied minor refugees (UMF) and very young children alongside their refugee family members, have hardly been studied systematically and have not been thoroughly analyzed in their intersectional entanglements of racism, gender/sexual orientation, age, disability, and socio-economic status. Overall, research on migration, racism, and intersectionality faces the challenge of adapting research questions, themes, and approaches to the effects of the constantly evolving migration and border regimes in the Federal Republic and the EU.

• Undocumented migration and insecure residency status: Opportunities and conditions for social work
• The situation of refugees in collective accommodations, the effects of privatization on social work, and the psychosocial consequences and experiences of violence among refugees
• Inclusion of refugee children in daycare centers and schools
• Migration and the transformation of support structures
• Migration, care, and sex work
• Social work and inclusive municipal migration policy
• Racism in educational fields of action

For research and transfer activities in this research area, the following colleagues from EHB can be contacted:

• Cetin, Zülfukar (Chair of Migration and Diversity): zuelfukar.cetin@eh-berlin.de
• Feldhaus-Plumin, Erika (Chair of Health and Social Sciences): erika.feldhaus-plumin@eh-berlin.de
• Glaeser, Janina (Chair of Social Policy): janina.glaeser@eh-berlin.de
• Hundt, Marion (Chair of Public Law): marion.hundt@eh-berlin.de
• Karakayalı, Juliane (Chair of Sociology): juliane.karakayali@eh-berlin.de
• Koval, Alla (Chair of Methods in Social Work): alla.koval@eh-berlin.de
• Kreck, Lena (Chair of Law and Society): lena.kreck@eh-berlin.de
• Kron, Stefanie (Chair of Social Work, Focus on Quantitative and Qualitative Research): stefanie.kron@eh-berlin.de
• Sauer, Stefanie (Chair of Social Work): stefanie.sauer@eh-berlin.de
• Wihstutz, Anne (Chair of Sociology): anne.wihstutz@eh-berlin.de

The following research and transfer projects have already been realized in this research area at EHB:

• Update of the "Moving Cities Map" (since 2023, Kron)
• Everyday Experiences of Very Young Children in Refugee Accommodations (2016–2017, Wihstutz)
• Recruitment of Mexican Nursing Professionals: ePflegeCampus international (2022–2024, Feldhaus-Plumin/Dibelius)
• Educating Newly Immigrated Students as an Opportunity for the Migration-Societal Opening of Mainstream Schooling (2019–2020, Karakayalı)
• Biographical Coping Strategies for Critical Life Events in the Context of Flight and Trauma: The Example of Mothers from Ukraine (since 2024, Koval)
• Citizenship of Non-Citizen, Refugee Children (2023, Wihstutz)
• Diversity- and Transculturally Oriented Methodical Approaches in Social Work (since 2020, Koval)
• Diversity- and Transculturally Oriented Counseling in Social Work (since 2020, Koval)
• Culturally Sensitive Early Childhood Education: Practical Insights as well as Developmental Psychological, Linguistic, and Legal Aspects. Guideline for the program “Berliner Modellkitas for the Integration and Inclusion of Children with Refugee Experience” by Diakonie Berlin-Brandenburg-Schlesische Oberlausitz (2018, Hundt, Naujok & Völkel)
• Lifeworlds of People with Dementia and Turkish Migration Background (Feldhaus-Plumin)
• Feasibility Study: City ID in Berlin (since 2023, Kron)
• Organization, Racism, and School: Complaints about Racism in Schools (since 2023, Karakayalı)
• Socialisation, familles et genre en contexte migratoire (since 2015, Glaeser)
• Course of International Adoptions (2012–2017, Sauer/INIB)