Heymat

HEYMAT (Hybrid European-Muslim Identity Models) is a social science research project started in 2008 at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science , which investigates the identity concepts of Muslim immigrants in Germany. The project is funded by the VW Foundation through the Schumpeter Fellowship . The director is Naika Foroutan and Isabel Schaefer.

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The research project asks why Muslim immigrants identify with Germany is difficult. The subject of the investigation are Muslim identity patterns that combine being German and being Muslim. Research interest is to what extent hybrid identities play a mediating role for integration processes. The thesis is that hybrid identities are necessary to bridge the gap of incomprehension between the indigenous population and the immigrants. At the same time, the relationship between Europe and the Islamic world and its repercussions on identity formation are analyzed. It is investigated what contribution the bearers of bicultural identities make to accelerate the change of national identities. At the end of the project, a nationwide representative online survey is planned, in which not only Muslims are to be asked about their hybrid identity, but also other comparison groups.

The research results should be made available to a broad public after the end of the project.

Web links

• Naika Foroutan, Isabel Schäfer: Hybrid Identities - Muslim Migrants in Germany and Europe , From Politics and Contemporary History (APuZ 5/2009), Online: Federal Center for Political Education January 23, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hybrid European-Muslim Identity Models (HEyMAT). Identity and demarcation rituals of people with a Muslim migration background in the German-European internal and external relationship, project description on Gesis ( memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ HEYMAT - Hybrid European-Muslim Identity Models , website of the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science of the Free University of Berlin ( memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Peter Leusch: At home in several cultures . Social scientists from Berlin examine hybrid identity models, Deutschlandfunk, February 3, 2011
4. ↑ HEYMAT - HU Berlin