The places where refugees settle, and the moves they make between them, are central to their opportunities, wellbeing and social incorporation. Yet much research treats context effects as static or focuses narrowly on single outcomes, overlooking how selective residential mobility, exposure to neighborhood resources and enclave infrastructures interact over time to produce divergent, multidimensional integration trajectories.
Organised by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), this conference brings together scholars of migration, segregation, neighbourhood and context effects, social stratification and integration to advance a place‑sensitive understanding of migrants’ stratified outcomes.
The Conference will be held at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg. The keynote addresses will be delivered by Jenny Phillimore (University of Birmingham) and Wolfgang Dauth (IAB/University of Bamberg).
Conference Program:
| Time |
Room |
Session |
| 12:00 – 13:00 |
01.04 |
Accreditation |
| 13:00 – 13:15 |
01.04 |
Welcome & Opening Remarks by Corinna Kleinert
(Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories) |
| 13:15 – 14:15 |
01.04 |
Keynote by Jenny Phillimore
(University of Birmingham) |
| 14:15 – 15:00 |
01.13 |
Lunch Break |
| 15:00 – 16:00 |
01.04 |
Panel 1
- The Effect of Initial Location Assignment on Healthcare Utilization of Refugees (Shobhit Kulshreshtha)
- Residential Preferences of Refugees in Germany (Jonas Wiedner)
|
| 16:00 – 16:15 |
01.13 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:15 – 17:30 |
01.04 |
Panel 2
- Residential Mobility Aspirations of Refugees in East German High-Rise Estates (Nihad El Kayed)
- New Address, Same Burdens? A Longitudinal Analysis of Residential Mobility and Inequalities in Contextual Neighborhood Quality in Germany (Adrian Leo)
- Dispersal Policies and Coethnic Networks: Understanding Refugees’ Fertility in Germany (Chiara Guasti)
|
| 18:30 |
Salino
Holzofenpizza
Schillerplatz 11
96047 Bamberg |
Dinner |
| 09:00 – 10:15 |
01.04 |
Panel 3
- Does Place Matter for Immigrant Integration? Geographic Variation in Age-At-Arrival Effects (Solveig Borgen)
- How Much Do Local Policies Matter for Refugee Integration? An Analytical Model and Evidence from a Highly Decentralized Country (Jasper Tjaden)
- Beyond Functional Outcomes: A Capabilities Approach to Refugee Integration (Lidwina Gundacker)
|
| 10:15 – 10:45 |
01.13 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 |
01.04 |
Keynote by Wolfgang Dauth
(Institute for Employment Research, IAB) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 |
01.13 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:00 – 14:15 |
01.04 |
Panel 4
- Spatial Dynamics and Labour Market Integration among Refugees in Norway: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic (Dajana Terzic)
- Remote Work, Local Lives: Spatial Dimensions of Settlement Among Refugee Remote Workers in Rural and Urban Sweden (Katarina Mozetič)
- Random Placement but Real Bias (Marco Schmandt)
|
| 14:15 – 14:30 |
01.13 |
Coffee Break |
| 14:30 – 15:45 |
01.04 |
Panel 5
- A Meta-Analysis of Spatial Effects on Refugee Integration (Tae Kyeong Meixner-Yun)
- Deportation Threats and Spatial Contraction: How Repatriation Campaigns Reshape Afghan Refugees’ Residential Strategies in Urban Pakistan (Rahat Shah)
|
| 15:45 – 16:00 |
01.04 |
Closing Remarks & Farewell |