ZiF-Kooperationsgruppe "Transnationalisierung und Entwicklung(en): Neue Forschungskonzepte" (2008-2009)
Migrationsdynamiken und Entwicklungskooperation im Raum Sub-Sahara-Afrika/Europa (MISA) (2007-2008)
Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios (EACH-FOR) (2007-2008)
Informationsnetzwerk für Integration (INTEGRA.net) (2007)
Afrikanische Diaspora und Entwicklung - Gender (2007)
Afrikanische Diaspora und Entwicklung (2006-2007)
Transnationale politische Praktiken der türkischstämmigen Migranten in Deutschland (2005-2007)
Demokratische Legitimation von Migrationskontrollpolitik (2005-2006)
Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft in einer sich globalisierenden Welt (2002-2005)
Completed projects of the working group Social Anthropology
Plurality, (in)equality and social change in South Asia - exchange cooperation with the University of Calcutta and Rabindra Bharati University (2010-2013), "A New Passage to India": Flexible mobility funding, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service])
Ethnicisation and de-ethnicisation of the political. Media, Actors and Sematics of the Ethnic in the Transnational Communication Space (2008-2012), SFB 584, German Research Foundation (DFG)
EURASIA-NET: Supranational Policies and Instruments for the Doctorate/Phd studies of Human Rights and the Management of Minority Issues. Associate member. (2007-2011), 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission
The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas: collaborative conference and publication project (2007-2010), British Academy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Maison de la Science de l'Homme (MSH), German Research Foundation (DFG)
Ethnicisation and de-ethnicisation of the political. Negotiations of inclusion and exclusion in the Andean and South Asian region (2004-2008), SFB 584, German Research Foundation (DFG)
MIDEA project (EU Asia Link Programme) "The (Micro)Politics of Democratisation: European-South Asian Exchanges on Governance, Conflict and Civic Action" Information is also available as a PDF file