From Heterogeneities to Inequalities in the Context of Organizations beyond the Nation State
The four projects of Project Area C of CRC 882 view at heterogeneity features, their combinations as well as thus resulting inequalities beyond the nation state. The projects go beyond the scope of the view of previous research, which views most of all at income disparities in the international or global context, and discuss participation in a variety of fields: labour market, education, health, politics, development cooperation, social security and the social integration of migrants. In this context, the analysis of the interaction and intersection of transnationality as a heterogeneity feature plays an important role, together with other features such as gender, religion, legal status, nationality and ethnicity. Transnationality refers to transactions within networks, groups and organizations, resulting in continuous and dense cross- border processes. It indicates processes which may potentially happen at a variety of levels (scales). A process-oriented, mechanismic analysis of inequalities beyond the nation state can be applied both to migrants and non-migrants. A crucial question is that about comparison criteria. How do the perception and judgement on, but just as well the way of dealing with social inequalities shift, given that socially comparative groups are no longer restricted to the closed spaced of nationality? These questions as well as others resulting from them will be presented on the basis of running research projects dealing with a number of typical cases: the informal social security of mobile and immobile individuals, cross-border landscapes, the social construction of heterogeneity criteria in the fields of justice and politics, and finally semantics of global inequality in the context of international organisations.
Project Area C
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Project C1
Transnationality and Inequality: The Pilot Project for the Panel Study
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Project C3
Transnationality, the Distribution of Informal Social Security and Inequalities
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Project C4
The Social Construction of Heterogeneity Criteria
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Project C5
Conceptions of Global Inequality in World Society
