Practices and Infrastructures in the Migration Society is an interdisciplinary group of researchers exploring Berlin as a laboratory of a migration society – a society fundamentally and permanently shaped by migration.

Through case studies in the areas of labor, housing, and health, we examine how solidarity is formed, negotiated, and sometimes constrained. We see these three areas not only as sites of social crisis and reproduction, as is often described today, but also as key arenas where relations of solidarity are politically, socially, and materially negotiated.

In response to the challenges to social cohesion posed by digitalization, migration, and global influences that take local shape, the project has also developed new ways of working together — across disciplines and in collaboration with different social actors.

For this panel, we invite scholars to join us in discussing our work and to connect it with their own research. In view of the changing forms of solidarity today, what new perspectives and directions can help research contribute to a critical understanding of our transforming societies?

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