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Tobias Weidinger

Tobias Weidinger
Tobias Weidinger

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.

Key expertise
  • rural areas
  • housing
  • labour market
  • volunteering
  • everyday mobility
  • exclusion
  • inclusion
  • participatory methodology
Current affiliation
  • Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Regional expertise
  • Western Europe

Professional career

Tobias Weidinger studied Cultural Geography (BA and MA) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. For his PhD thesis on the inclusion of refugees in rural Germany, he was honoured with the Young Researcher Award of the German Society for Demography in 2022.

Profile according to FFVT taxonomy

Scientific topics
  • Integration And Social Participation
  • Civil Society Engagement
  • Local And Municipal Refugee Policies
  • Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
  • Reception, Accommodation And Housing
  • Work / Labour Market
Research fields
  • Migration Research

Relevant publications

  • Weidinger, T., Spenger, D., Kordel, S. (2024). Becoming active agents through practices of volunteering: Immigrants’ experiences in rural Germany. Social Inclusion, 12(7677), 1-19.
  • Kordel, S., Weidinger, T., Spenger, D. (2023). Ehrenamtliches Engagement für Migrant:innen in ländlichen Räumen (= Erlanger Migrations- und Integrationsstudien 10). Erlangen-Nürnberg: FAU University Press.
  • Kordel, S., Sauerbrey, D., Weidinger, T. (2022). Selbständige Beschäftigung von geflüchteten Neuzugewanderten in ländlichen Räumen am Beispiel von Lebensmittelgeschäften: Aspirationen, Praktiken und ihr Beitrag für die lokale Versorgung. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 80(5), 573–587.
  • Weidinger, T., Kordel, S. (2023). Access to and exclusion from housing over time: Refugees’ experiences in rural areas. International Migration, 61(3), 54–71.
  • Glorius, B., Kordel, S., Weidinger, T., Bürer, M., Schneider, H., Spenger, D. (2020). Is social contact with the resident population a prerequisite of well-being and place attachment? The case of refugees in rural regions of Germany. Frontiers in Sociology, 5(578495), 1-13.