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(Forced) Migration

Violent conflicts and their consequences for societies result in migration and displacement worldwide. The focus of our research is on interdisciplinary questions about the conflict-flight nexus, the gender-specific effects on refugee situations, the resilience strategies of refugees, integration processes and the development of prejudice and discrimination in host societies and among refugees and migrants. Additionally, we analyse the socio-cultural strategies of local populations in the face of displacement and flight.

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  Human Rights Crimes, Norm Entrepreneurs, and the Implementation of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in Germany: A Study on Human Rights Consciousness among Syrian Refugees (funded by the German Research Foundation, 2022-2026)
  
  Doing Human Rights: How the Categories of "Human" and "Migrant" are made (Ir-)Relevant in Everyday Life (funded by the German Research Foundation, 2022-2026)
  
  Global refugee protection and local refugee commitment. Extends and limits of refugees' agency in community-based NGOs (funded by the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation, 2016-2018)
  
  Gender relations in bordered spaces. Conditions, extend and forms of sexual violence against women in war-related refugee camps (funded by the German Research Foundation, 2013-2015)

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  Maria Hartmann: Revolution, Exile, Transformation: Negotiations, Memory Culture and Appraisal of Post-Revolutionary Syrian Diaspora in Germany. (finished in 2021).