Osteuropa Institut Regensburg (Germany)

The Osteuropa-Institut Munich which has been founded in 1952 is an independent research institute including an economic and a historical department, a research centre on Ukraine and a study group on migration and integration. Research subjects of the economics department are regional developments and economic policies in Eastern Europe and the CIS as well as economic and financial links between East and West. The research centre on Ukraine investigates current economic trends and historic subjects in the Ukraine, the study group on migration and integration deals with East-West migration in the context of the Eastern enlargement of the EU.

Furthermore the study group on migration and integration focuses on the integration of immigrants from Eastern Europe in Germany and the EU and with EU migration policies. The institute produces politically relevant economic and historical studies based on scientific analysis. In addition the institute includes a large library with an impressive collection of scientific works from and about Eastern Europe and the CIS. The well indexed library is among the largest in Europe specialised in the above mentioned fields.

Team Leader Dr. Barbara Dietz is the head of the study group on migration and integration at the Osteuropa-Institut Munich which explores various issues related to East-West migration and to the integration of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany and the EU countries. She has conducted extensive research on migration policies and on East-West migration movements after the political changes in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Furthermore she is involved in studies exploring the social and economic integration of East European migrant populations in Germany. She also works as a consultant for the INTAS projects “Social and Political Trends for CIS Countries: Key-Indicators and Social Measurements of Transition” (INTAS Ref. N. 03-51-6388) and “Patterns of Migration in the New European Borderlands: An assessment of Post-Enlargement Migration Trends in NIS Border Countries” (INTAS Ref. No: 04-79-7165).

Dr. Barbara Dietz
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