Christine Lang

My research focuses on the social production of migration, diversity and in/exclusion and the role space plays in this. Currently, I work mainly on geographies of migration of health professionals and urban governance of diversity. I am particularly interested in how different actors and organizations are involved in producing spaces of migration and diversity/difference, what influences this, and what consequences it has for social structures, in/exclusion, and societal change.

Since November 2023, I am assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) of Social Geography and Reflexive Migration Studies at Osnabrueck University. Before, I worked as research associate at the Institute of Geography and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrueck University and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. In 2018, I received my PhD from Osnabrueck University with a thesis on "The production of diversity: urban administrations and the employment of migrants and their descendants". During my PhD, I worked as a research associate and PhD fellow at IMIS, among others in a project on social mobility among immigrant descendants. I studied sociology and political science in Freiburg and Paris and hold a Master in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.