Magdalena Nowicka
Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences
Current position and university: Head of Department Integration, German Centre for Integration and Migration Research DeZIM e.V. and Honorary Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Country: Germany
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Why did you choose Lund University?
The Department of Sociology and its faculty uniquely combine expertise in migration and environmental studies with disciplinary strengths in anthropology and sociology. Lund’s innovation initiative aligns with my future-oriented research goals.
The professorship framework also enables me to maintain my position in Berlin while undertaking extended research stays in Lund, fostering durable collaborations.
Can you briefly describe your current research?
My research centres on how diverse populations live together—initially through an interest in spatial organisation, then mobility, and more recently through concepts of conviviality in immigration-driven societies.
My recent work engages with individual and institutional dimensions of societal adaptation in response to immigration to Germany and Poland. I thematise racism and social class as central to thinking about conviviality.
What will be your main research focus during your time at Lund University?
During my time at Lund University, I intend to further develop a new project on convivial futures that engages with large-scale enforced population movements and their short-, medium-, and long-term envisioned effects on European societies.
I approach this question through the lens of integration, focusing on the reorganisation of institutional and normative frameworks of incoming and incorporating populations. I aim to combine historical cases with methods for envisioning alternative futures.
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