Migration and Welfare States in the USA: Global and National Dynamics in Bureaucratic Human Differentiation (B06)

• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442261292

The project explores the nexus between the generation of categories of human differentiation and the contested dynamics of modern state-building. It suggests that nation-states inscribe and operationalize central categories of human differentiation, such as ethnicity, race, gender and class, in the context of transnational challenges. The project focuses on U.S. immigration and social policy between the World Wars as a case study. It shows how processes of differentiation, nation-building and globalization are constitutive of each other.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1482: Studies in Human Categorization
• Applicant Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Project Head: Professor Axel Schäfer, Ph.D.