Working Group on Migration at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz

The Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz has founded a working group on 'Migration' to provide a basis for and stimulate its future work. It meets about twice a year and participates in the internal exchange of Academy members, the production of publications and public events of the Academy.

The reason for founding the working group were recent upheavals, which in the sphere of politics are referred to as 'populism', but which undoubtedly point beyond purely political problems. The working group aims to analyse and discuss these problematic developments in their connection with questions of migration.

The working group is interdisciplinary. Proven historians, political scientists, sociologists and economists participate in it. Several members of the Young Academy are also represented in the working group.