News
29 October 2025: Rethinking citizenship in Europe. Policies, challenges and perspectives
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg will present at a webinar organized by ISMU Foundation (Initiatives and Studies on Multi-ethnicity) about Germany's citizenship reform.
13 October 2025: FABRIC hosts Rudolf von Sinner (PUCPR Curitiba, Brazil)
FABRIC hosted Rudolf von Sinner, a leading expert in public theology, for a conversation about religion and migration. Rudolf also delivered a lecture on Sovereignty, Self-Limitation and Status Confessionis: Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Perspectives in the research seminar on “Global Christianity and Interreligious Relations”.
24 September 2025: Nonvoter Remote Partisanship
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg was invited to present her research on “Nonvoter Remote Partisanship: Response of the Nonvoter Kurds to the Turkish Elections in Germany” at the workshop “Locating Diaspora in Kurdish Studies: Migration, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge”, hosted by Humboldt University Berlin in Germany.
9 September 2025: The Church’s Role in Meeting with Converts in the Asylum Process
Jonathan Morgan was invited by the Church of Sweden in Malmö. He presented his research on “The Church’s Role in Meeting with Converts in the Asylum Process” to practitioners who work in faith-based organisations in the city.
1 September 2025: New Book Published
Co-edited by FABRIC’s PI Ulrich Schmiedel, together with Anna Hjälm and Ryszard Bobrowicz, Living in A World of Neighbours: Activists and Academics in Conversation about Multi-Faith Refugee Relief brings together activist and academic voices affiliated with A World of Neighbours, a multi-faith-based network that has been engaging with people on the move across Europe since 2015.
20–22 August 2025: Panel on Religion and Migration
FABRIC ran a panel on religion and migration at the conference From Migration to the Postmigrant Society at Lund University: Our panel featured papers by Dianne van den Bosch on “Religion, Gender, and Refugee Protection: Analysing Faith-Based Organisations in Europe”, Jonathan Morgan on “Migration Office Christianities”, Ulrich Schmiedel on “The Methodological Nationalist in the Ethics of Migration”, and Öykü Yener-Roderburg on “Faith-Based Diaspora Organisations and Refugee Relief in Europe: The Case of Alevi Associations in Germany and the UK”.
1 August 2025: Diversity as a Key to Democracy: Refugees – Religions – Racisms
Ulrich Schmiedel delivered a keynote titled “Diversity as a Key to Democracy: Refugees – Religions – Racisms” at the Summer School of the Eastern European Institute of Theology, located in Lviv, Ukraine, on “World with Broken Borders: Theological Perspectives on Displacement and Diasporas / Світ зруйнованих кордонів: богословські погляди на вимушене переміщення та діаспору”.
14 July 2025: Faith-Based Diaspora Organisations and Refugee Relief in Europe
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg presented “Faith-Based Diaspora Organisations and Refugee Relief in Europe”. The presentation was for a panel on “International Migration Governance across World Regions: Actors and Processes in the Diffusion of Policies and Practices” at the IPSA World Congress of Political Science, COEX, Seoul.
2 July 2025: Faith-Based Diaspora Organisations and Refugee Relief in Europe: The Case of Alevi Associations in Germany and the UK
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg presented “Faith-Based Diaspora Organisations and Refugee Relief in Europe: The Case of Alevi Associations in Germany and the UK”. The presentation took place at the Second Biennial International Conference of Alevism Studies, University of Westminster, London.
26 June 2025: Why Are Expats Leaving Germany?
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg was featured in a Turkish-language WDR COSMO radio programme titled “Why Are Expats Leaving Germany?”, where she shared her experience of moving from Germany to Sweden.
5–6 June 2025: Populism at the Margins
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg presented “Populism at the Margins: Ethnic Minority Parties and Political Belonging in Western Europe”. The presentation was for the workshop “Populism For, Against, or By the Minorities? Social Groups in Populism Research”, hosted by Tallinn University within the framework of the SIDESTREAM project.
27–28 May 2025: Race and Religion in the Law of Migration
FABRIC hosted an international and interdisciplinary workshop on “‘Race’ and ‘Religion’ in the Law of Migration: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical” in cooperation with Rutgers Law School, Rutgers University, NJ, USA. This workshop brought together scholars from legal and religious studies to compare the ways that governmental and non-governmental agencies and actors address the humanitarian needs of forced migrants in the E.U. and the U.S.
21 May 2025: The Postmigrant Society with Naika Foroutan
FABRIC hosted a roundtable on “The Postmigrant Society” with Naika Foroutan (Berlin) at Lund University. Dianne van den Bosch and Öykü Yener-Roderburg offered responses to Foroutan’s account of the postmigrant society. Chaired by Ulrich Schmiedel, the roundtable was connected to the conferment of the honorary doctorate of the Lund Faculty of Theology to Foroutan.
17–19 March 2025: From Migrants to Dual Citizens: A New Electorate?
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg presented “From Migrants to Dual Citizens: A New Electorate? Turkish Political Participation for and from Germany” for the panel “Linking Status to Citizenship: Exploring Processes, Pathways, and Mechanisms of Migrant Regularization” at the IMISCOE Spring Conference, Krems, Austria.
15–16 May 2025: From Migrants to Dual Citizens: A New Electorate?
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg presented “From Migrants to Dual Citizens: A New Electorate? Turkish Political Participation for and from Germany” at a conference in Södertörn University Stockholm.
24 April 2025: A voice for migrants amid political constraints
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg offered a commentary on migration in the weekly newsletter of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), dedicated to “Pope Francis and His Relationship with the Broader Mediterranean Region.”
21 February 2025: German Elections: Expectations and Voting Preferences of Migrants from Turkey
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg was featured in a BBC Türkçe news documentary on its YouTube channel, titled “German Elections: Expectations and Voting Preferences of Migrants from Turkey.”
21 February 2025: What do people of Turkish origin in Germany think about the election campaigns?
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg offered her views with BBC Turkey on how Turkey-originating people in Germany perceive election campaigns.
9 January 2025: Faith-based Approaches to Justice with Alana Vincent
FABRIC welcomed Alana Vincent for a conversation on faith-based approaches to justice. Alana, who teaches at the University of Umeå, is on FABRIC’s advisory board. She offered feedback on our research before informing us about Jewish conceptualizations of justice in Jewish texts and traditions.
23–26 November 2024: Three Panels at the American Academy of Religion
As Co-Chair of the Religion and Migration Unit of the American Academy of Religion, Ulrich Schmiedel co-organized three international and interdisciplinary panels at the annual meeting in San Diego, USA. The panels explored the interrelated themes of “Religion, Migration, and Gendered Relations”, co-sponsored by the AAR Religion and Migration Unit and the AAR International Women’s Caucus; “Religion, Migration, and Human Rights Activism in a Time of Hardening Borders”, co-sponsored by the AAR Religion and Migration Unit and the AAR Religion and Human Rights Unit; and “Religion, Migration, and Resistance to Oppression”, sponsored by the AAR Religion and Migration Unit.
10 October 2024: Just Care: In Pursuit of a Postmigrant Ethics
Ulrich Schmiedel presents on Just Care: In Pursuit of a Postmigrant Ethics, at the Malmö Institute for Migration Studies, Malmö University.
29 July – 2 August 2024: Migrantisch oder Muslimisch?
Ulrich Schmiedel delivered a keynote, “Migrantisch oder Muslimisch? Erwägungen zur Debatte um die Flüchtlingsfrage in der politischen Ethik”, at the summer school of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in Neubeuern, Germany.
13–16 July 2024: The Theological Trap: Countering Islamophobia in Christian Theology
Ulrich Schmiedel delivered a keynote, “The Theological Trap: Countering Islamophobia in Christian Theology”, plus a series of workshops on “Religion and Migration” at the summer school Mediterranean Theological Meetings in Rijeka, Croatia.
20–23 May 2024: Religion in the Postmigrant Society
Together with Valentina Napolitano (Toronto), who is on FABRIC’s advisory board, Ulrich Schmiedel organises a panel on “Religion in the Postmigrant Society” at the annual meeting of the European Academy of Religion in Palermo, Italy.
