Expert:innen der Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung

Bast is the spokesperson of the interdisciplinary research group “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” (MeDiMi), funded by the DFG. MeDiMi examines the conditions, forms, and consequences of the humanrightization of discursive practices in migration-related conflicts.

Professor for Political Science with more than 30 years of academic and professional experience in the research fields of democracy, migration and human rights.

Full-professor in public health, medical doctor, social epidemiologist and health systems researcher focusing transnational migration. He has been Principal Investigator to multiple large-scale research projects on migration and health system responses, more recently in the scope of a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. His research is positioned at the intersection of empirical and theoretical approaches with relevance for policy and practice. His collaborations span local, national, and international civil society organizations, ministries, public health authorities, UN agencies, as well as transnational professional networks.

Senior researcher, PhD, 25+ years of experience, author resp. editor of 15 books and more than 50 journal articles (h-index 36, 6319 quotations), more than 20 research projects (incl. 10 EU-projects), international cooperation, policy advice, research management, science communication.

Dr Etzold is social geographer and migration scholar with more than 18 years of experience in studying people’s vulnerability, livelihoods and experiences of violence, trajectories of migration and displacement, informal labour and food security. He leads a research group at the BCDSS on the entanglements of violence and livelihood precarity in translocal settings of conflict and displacement.

Christiane Fröhlich is a lead research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. She is particularly interested in the intersection between forced migration, sustainable adaptation to global environmental change, and socio-political upheaval, and in the interactions between mobility control and state making.

Birgit Glorius is human geographer and professor of human geography with a focus on European migration research at TU Chemnitz, Germany. In her research, she focuses on recent migration phenomena in Europe, notably forced migration, and their effects on social cohesion and society formation.

Sabine Hess is a professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology and director of the Centre for Global Migration Studies at the University of Göttingen. Her research focuses on migration, border regimes and racism, including from a gendered perspective.

Political scientist specializing in research on democracy promotion, evaluation as well as forced migration and refugee politics.

Studies in History, Political Science and Business Administration at Osnabrück University and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. MA in History and Political Science. Doctorate on “Immigration policy in Spain” at Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University.

I am Assistant Professor of Social Geography and Reflexive Migration Research at Osnabrück University. My research focuses on the social production of migration and in/exclusion, with a particular interest in the role of space.

Lena Laube is a senior researcher at the University of Bonn and conducts research on (forced) migration from an international political sociology perspective. She focuses on the topics of externalization of European border policy, international visa policy, global inequality, sea rescue, and migration diplomacy. In 2022, she co-founded the Bonn Platform for Forced Migration Studies. She is actively involved in the German Network for Forced Migration Studies as a co-spokesperson for the working group “Democracy and Forced Migration” and has been a board member since 2024.

Andreas Pott is Professor of Social Geography at Osnabrück University, Germany. He is chair of the Collaborative Research Centre Production of Migration (SFB 1604), the first Sonderforschungsbereich on migration, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2024. He serves as deputy director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) and as co-lead of FFVT.

I am a migration scholar with a PhD in political science with over a decade of research and teaching experience. I am co-editor-in-chief of the Forced Migration Studies Blog (FluchtforschungsBlog) as well as chair of the working “Europe” of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies (Netzwerk Fluchtforschung).

Hannes Schammann is Professor of Migration Policy at the University of Hildesheim. He held several positions outside academia and still works closely with governmental and non-governmental organizations. Hannes is an appointed member of the German Expert Council on Integration and Migration.

Albert Scherr, sociologist, born in 1958, has taught and conducted research at various German universities. He has carried out empirical studies in the field of migration and refugee research and has published on sociological theories of migration.

Conrad Schetter studied geography, history, education, at the University of Bonn. From 1999 to 2013, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, where he most held the position of Acting Director. Since 2013, Conrad Schetter has been the Director of bicc.

Tobias Weidinger is a postdoctoral researcher focusing on the everyday lives of immigrants and their experiences of socio-spatial exclusion and inclusion. He investigates the effects of different immigration processes on rural housing and labour markets as well as social cohesion.

Franzisca Zanker is the Deputy Director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg, Germany, where she also heads the research cluster on “Patterns of (Forced) Migration. She currently leads an ERC-funded project on “The Political Lives of Migrants: perspectives from Africa”.