Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM)


Dr. Nihad El-Kayed

n.el-kayed@hu-berlin.de

 

 

 
contact:n.el-kayed@hu-berlin.de

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Research Interests

 

  • social and political inequality
  • citizenship and migration
  • city, space and migration
  • social networks, social capital and social boundary processes
  • sport and migration
  • mixed methods, quantitative and qualitative methods

 

Current

    • PI DeZIM collaborative project "Political (In)Equality in Postmigrant Democracy" (PoMigDem), funded by BMFSFJ
    • editor BIM Publication Series
    • member of the editorial collective of sub\urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung

    • member speaker team of the section „Urban and Regional Sociology“, German Sociological Association (DGS)

     

    Academic Career

     

    • 2022-2024 PI "From Demolition to Immigration II" (StadtumMig II), subproject "Local social boundary processes and barriers to resource access", funded by BMBF, https://stadtummig.de/
    • 2019 -2022 PI "From Demolition to Immigration. New perspectives for peripheral large housing estates" (StadtumMig), subproject "Residents and migration", funded by BMBF, https://stadtummig.de/
    • 12/2021 - 12/2022 scientific curation and project development "Dezentrale Frequenzen / MIKRO SACHSENDORF" with poligonal - Büro für Stadtvermittlung, funded by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), https://mikro.city
    • 04/2021 – 09/2021 Substitute for the professorship "Urban and Regional Sociology" („Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie“) at the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    • 10/2017-04/2021 PI "Neighbourhoods of Welcome - Conditions for Social Cohesion in Super-Diverse Neighbourhoods" („Nachbarschaften des Willkommens – Bedingungen für sozialen Zusammenhalt in super-diversen Quartieren“ NaWill) funded by BMBF, Department of Diversity and Social Conflict, Institute of Social Sciences and Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    • 2018 Doctorate summa cum laude in sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: „Local Conditions of Democracy – The relevance of neighborhoods for political participation of first- and second-generation immigrants“
    • 2015-2017 Research Associate at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; projects: „Sport and Social Inequality“; „IG Metall Union Members with Migration Background“; „Residential Situation of Female Refugees“; „Poverty Risk of Persons with Migration Background“
    • 2014 Visiting Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, U.S.
    • 2011 M.A. Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld
    • 2008 B.A. Sozialwissenschaften, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 

     

    Awards and Scholarships

     

    • 2021/2022 Participant of the 15th ProFiL cohort (2021/2022) - "ProFiL. Professionalisation of Women in Research and Teaching" programme for female researchers pursuing a professorship
    • Berlin University Alliance, Charité, FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin
    • 2021 Hartmut-Häußermann-Prize Soziale Stadt for outstanding monographs in urban research
    • 2019 Dissertation Award of the Section for Urban and Regional Sociology within the DGS
    • 2012-2015 PhD scholarship Heinrich Böll Foundation e.V.

     

    Selected Publications (* peer-reviewed)

    • El-Kayed, Nihad (2025): Migration, politische Ungleichheit und lokale Demokratie. Zwischen In- und Exklusion. In: Gesemann, Frank; Filsinger, Dieter; Münch, Sybille (Eds.): Handbuch Lokale Integrationspolitik. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43195-2_10-1
    • El-Kayed, Nihad (2025): Neighborhoods as resource hubs and resource nodes. Civic organisations and political recruitment of first- and second-generation immigrants in Berlin, Germany. Urban Studies, 62(6), 1123-1140. open access: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241270928*
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Keskinkılıç, Leoni / Šerbedžija, Vojin / Wiegand, Anna (2025): Arriving in Peripheral Neighbourhoods. Dimensions of Inclusion and Exclusion in a Large East German Housing Estate. In: Templin, David (Ed.): Arrival Neighborhoods in Europe since the mid-19th Century. Migrations, Cities, Infrastructures. New York: Routledge, 244-267.
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Blokland, Talja (2024): Urban Citizenship – Local Configurations of Status, Rights, Practices, and Exclusion. In: Garcia, Marisol / Faist, Thomas (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies. Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar.*
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Haid, Christian / Staudinger, Lukas (2024): Dezentrale Frequenzen – ДЕЦЕНТРАЛІЗАЦІЯ ЧАСТОТНОСТІ – ДEЦЕНТРАЛИЗАЦИЯ ЧАСТОТНОСТИ – الترددات الغير مركزية. In: dérive, 95, 30-31, 37-40.
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Keskinkılıç, Leoni (2023): Infrastructures in the Context of Arrival – Multidimensional patterns of resource access in an established and a new immigrant neighborhood in Germany. geografica Helvetica 78, 355-367. DOI: 10.5194/gh-78-355-2023.
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Keskinkılıç, Leoni J. / Šerbedžija, Vojin / Wiegand, Anna (2023): Bewohner*innenschaft und Migration – Ankommensprozesse von Geflüchteten in ostdeutschen Großwohnsiedlungen. Working Paper 3 des Projekts „Vom Stadtumbauschwerpunkt zum Einwanderungsquartier - Neue Perspektiven für periphere Großwohnsiedlungen“. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18452/27942.
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Keskinkiliç, Leoni / Šerbedžija, Vojin / Wiegand, Anna/ Dalga, Yağmur / Demirkol, Hêlîn (2023): (Zusammen) Leben – Zugänge und Ausschlüsse im Quartier. In: Forschungsverbund StadtumMig
      (ed.): Vom Stadtumbauschwerpunkt zum Einwanderungsquartier. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
      https://doi.org/10.18452/25294
    • Forschungsverbund StadtumMig (ed.) (2023): Vom Stadtumbauschwerpunkt zum Einwanderungsquartier – Handbuch. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://doi.org/10.18452/25294.
    • Nobis, Tina / El-Kayed, Nihad (2022): Othering in Sport-Related Research. How Research Produces
      and Reproduces Images of ‘the Immigrant Other’. European Journal for Sport and Society,
      online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2022.2136128.*

    • Bernt, Matthias / Hamann, Ulrike / El-Kayed, Nihad / Keskinkılıç, Leoni (2022): Internal Migration Industries: Shaping the Housing Options for Refugees at the Local Level. In: Urban Studies, 59(11), 2217-2233.*

    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Keskinkılıç, Leoni / Juhnke, Sebastian / Hamann, Ulrike (2021): Nachbarschaften des Willkommens – Bedingungen für sozialen Zusammenhalt in super-diversen Quartieren (NaWill). Abschlussbericht. Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. URL: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/24413
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Juhnke, Sebastian / Keskinkılıç, Leoni (2021): Nachbarschaften des Willkommens? Dimensionen lokaler Reaktionen auf Geflüchtete und ihr Zusammenhang. In: Großmann, Kathrin / Budnik, Maria / Haase, Annegret / Hedtke, Christoph / Krahmer, Alexander (Hg.): An Konflikten wachsen oder scheitern? Erfurt: Fachhochschule Erfurt, Fachbereich Stadt- und Raumsoziologie, 271-287. https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.49375.
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Bernt, Matthias / Hamann, Ulrike / Pilz, Madlen (2020): Peripheral Estates as Arrival Spaces? Conceptualising Research on Arrival Functions of New Immigrant Destinations. In: Urban Planning, 5(3), 103-114.*
    • Nobis, Tina / El-Kayed, Nihad (2019): Social Inequality and Sport in Germany – a Multidimensional and Intersectional Perspective. In: European Journal for Sport and Society, 16(1), 5-26.*
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Hamann, Ulrike (2018): Refugees‘ Access to Housing and Residency in German Cities: Internal Border Regimes and Their Local Variations. In: Social Inclusion, 6(1), 135-146.*

    • El-Kayed, Nihad (2018): Local Conditions of Democracy – The relevance of neighborhoods for political participation of first and second-generation immigrants. Dissertation at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

    • Foroutan, Naika / Hamann, Ulrike / El-Kayed, Nihad / Jorek, Susanna (2017): Zwischen Lager und Mietvertrag – Wohnunterbringung von geflüchteten Frauen in Berlin und Dresden. Berlin: Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
    • mit Giesecke, Johannes / Kroh, Martin / Tucci, Ingrid / Baumann, Anne-Luise / El-Kayed, Nihad (2017): Armutsgefährdung bei Personen mit Migrationshintergrund. Vertiefende Analysen auf Basis von SOEP und Mikrozensus. SOEP Papers 907, Berlin: DIW Berlin.
    • El-Kayed, Nihad / Julia Meinert (2016): Kriminalität und die Wahrnehmung der Nachbarschaft. In: Jost Reinecke / Mark Stemmler / Jochen Wittenberg (Hg.): Devianz und Delinquenz im Kinder- und Jugendalter. Ungleichheitsdimensionen und Risikofaktoren. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 97-116.

     

     

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