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Sabine Hess

Sabine Hess

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.

Key expertise
  • migration and border regime studies
Current affiliation
  • Centre for Global Migration Studies, University of Göttingen
Regional expertise
  • Central Europe
  • Eastern Europe

Professional career

C U R R E N T P O S I T I O N

  • University of Göttingen, Faculty of Humanities, Professor of Cultural Anthropology/ European Ethnology, 2011-present

  • Director of the Centre for Global Migration Studies, 2018-present

ED U C A T I O N

  • Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. PhD, Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, 1998-2004

  • Department for Social Science, University of Tübingen, Germany. Magistra Artium in empirical cultural studies, modern history and political science, 1991-1997

P R E V I O U S A C A D E M I C P O S I T I O N S

  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, Institute for Ethnology/European Ethnology, 2006-2011. University Assistant

  • Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany, Institute for European Ethnology, 2005-2006. Research Fellow

  • Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, 1998-2004. Research Fellow

Profile according to FFVT taxonomy

Scientific topics
  • Integration And Social Participation
  • International Protection
  • Borders
  • Civil Society Engagement
  • Education
  • Experience Of Violence, Trauma
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Humanitarianism
  • Identity
  • Family
  • Local And Municipal Refugee Policies
  • Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
  • National Refugee And Asylum Policies
  • Racism
  • Refugee Camp
  • Return And Deportation
  • Self-Organization
  • Transnational Networks
  • Refugee Law
  • Infrastructure Of Flight / Forced Migration
Research fields
  • Migration Research

Relevant publications

  • Adam, J. & Hess, S. (2024). Grenzregime und Autoritäre Transformation. In: Röder, A., Zifonun, D. (eds.): Handbuch Migrationssoziologie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2024, 1-27.
  • Riedner, L. & Hess, S. (2024). Mapping New Colour Lines – Border Studies within a Workfare State. Journal Ethnicity and Migration Studies, 50(11), 2707-2728.
  • Grittmann, E., Hess, S., Koopmann, U., Schwenken, H. (2023). Gender, Flucht, Aufnahmepolitiken. Die vergeschlechtlichte In- und Exklusion geflüchteter Frauen*. Wiesbaden: Springer VS Wiesbaden.
  • Elle, J. & Hess, S. (2020). Asyl und Geschlecht: Dynamiken und Fallstricke des Vulnerabilitätsparadigmas. In: von Harbou, F., Markow, J. (eds.): Philosophie des Migrationsrechts, 2020, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 317–342.
  • Hess, S. & Kasparek, B. (2019). The Post-2015 European Border Regime. New Approaches in a Shifting Field. Archivio antropologico mediterraneo XXII, 21(2), 1-16.