Objetivo How do migrants develop the competence to successfully operate within a new society, and will these newly acquired intercultural skills and attitudes transfer between individuals and geographical locations? Can migration, and to what extent, trigger a shift towards more tolerance and respect for ethnic and cultural diversity in the countries sending migrants? And how are these effects mediated by particular conditions? These are the questions the TRANSFORmIG project seeks to answer by investigating recent massive migration between Poland and Great Britain and Germany. The ‘Polish case’ is highly instructive because of diametrically opposed contexts between which the transnational migrants regularly ‘switch’: Britain and Germany are characterized by a level and kind of multi-cultural complexity that is unknown to immigrants from Poland which is recognized as one of the most ethnically homogeneous country in the world.The TRANSFORmIG project puts the hypothesis that contact with diversity – socializing with people of diverse backgrounds – leads to (a positive) change of attitudes both among migrants and their peer groups in the communities of origin, and that these effects are mediated by the particular configurations and representations of diversity.The TRANSFORmIG project entails interdisciplinary, multi-method research in selected localities in Great Britain, Germany and Poland. Spanning sociology, anthropology, history and media studies, the project investigates with the help of a longitudinal qualitative study, individual and group interviews, ethnography and discourse analysis how people’s attitudes and skills to act in diverse societies change over time and in dependence with historical and contemporary conditions. Findings will significantly advance social scientific understanding of the processes of transnational transfer of values and attitudes and the spread of intercultural competences under the condition of growing diversification of societies. Ámbito científico humanidadeshistoria y arqueologíahistoriaciencias socialessociologíaantropologíaciencias socialessociologíademografíamigración humana Programa(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Tema(s) ERC-SG-SH3 - ERC Starting Grant - Environment and society Convocatoria de propuestas ERC-2012-StG_20111124 Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Coordinador HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN Dirección Unter den linden 6 10117 Berlin Alemania Ver en el mapa Región Berlin Berlin Berlin Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Magdalena Nowicka (Dr.) Contacto administrativo Ingmar Schmidt (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Aportación de la UE Sin datos Beneficiarios (2) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN Alemania Aportación de la UE € 1 349 896,00 Dirección Unter den linden 6 10117 Berlin Ver en el mapa Región Berlin Berlin Berlin Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Magdalena Nowicka (Dr.) Contacto administrativo Ingmar Schmidt (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Otras fuentes de financiación Sin datos MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV La participación finalizó Alemania Aportación de la UE € 0,00 Dirección Hofgartenstrasse 8 80539 Munchen Ver en el mapa Región Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Tipo de actividad Research Organisations Contacto administrativo Steven Allen Vertovec (Prof.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Otras fuentes de financiación Sin datos
