Curriculum Vitae

Education

01/2013 – dato
Institute of Sociology, University of Bern
Ph.D Candidate at the chair of Prof. Dr. Christian Joppke; Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel

11/2011
Licentiate (= MA) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology and Slavic Linguistics, University of Zurich
Title of Licentiate’s thesis: ‘Translocality, Kinship and Marriage in Indonesia. An Ethnographic Study about a Migrant Community in Surabaya’ (in German)

2007 – 2011
University of Zurich (Social Anthropology, Sociology and Slavic Linguistics)

2004 – 2007
University of Bern (Social Anthropology, Sociology and Philosophy)

Professional Activities/Teaching (selection)

2015 – dato
Board member of the legal advice office ‘Freiplatzaktion Zürich’ (free legal counselling for asylum seekers).

02/2017 – 07/2017
Sussex Centre of Migration Research, United Kingdom
Research Associate

2013
Teaching: Proseminar ‘Reading Course: Bourdieu's Reflexive Sociology’ (in German), Institute of Sociology, University of Bern

2013
Teaching: Proseminar ‘Society and Capitalism in the 21st Century – reading course’ (in German, together with Tobias Eule), Institute of Sociology, University of Bern

2013
Teaching: Seminar ‘Asylum and Refugees from a Global Perspective’ (in German, together with Tobias Eule), Institute of Sociology, University of Bern

12/2010 – 09/2015
AOZ, Zurich
Night watch in an asylum centre

02/2012 – 11/2012
mission 21, Basel
Internship as a project assistant in the Asia Team (focus on Indonesia, China and Japan)

2008 – 2009
Student representative of the student representative body at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich

09/2008 – 12/2008
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
Student assistant of Prof. W. de Jong

Grants/Scholarships

10/2017 – 03/2018
Writing-up Fellowship at the Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany

01/2017 – 06/2017
Mobility grant in project by the Swiss National Science Foundation for covering travel and living costs during stay at the Sussex Centre of Migration Research, United Kingdom

10/2013 – 09/2017
‘Doc.CH’-grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the PhD project ‘Lost in Transit. Fragmented Journeys of Young Migrants with no Chance of Admission in Europe’

Fieldwork

01/2016 – 04/2016
Follow-up Interviews in Germany and Austria

10/2015 – 12/2015
Fieldwork in Italy

06/2014 – 10/2015
Fieldwork in Switzerland

07/2010 – 11/2010
Fieldwork in Indonesia

Organisation of Conferences and Workshops

2015
Workshop:  ’New Sites, New Challenges? Ethical and Methodological Questions in the Context of Research on Migration Exclusion’; organised together with: Christin Achermann; Nora Affolter; Lisa Borrelli; Tobias Eule; Jana Häberlein; Laura Rezzonico; IMISCOE 12th Annual Conference/nccr – on the move 1st Annual Conference on ‘Rights, Democracy and Migration – Challenges and Opportunities’. Geneva, 25. - 27. 6. 2015

‘Rassismus und Ökonomie im europäischen Migrations- und Grenzregime.’ part of the organisation committee of the 11th conference of the Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (kritnet) in Zürich.

2013
Workshop at University of Bern: ‘Contested Control at the Margins of the State’, co-organised with Laura Affolter, Simon Affolter, Tobias G. Eule, David Loher and Simone Marti, 22. - 23. 11. 2013.

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

2017
‘Illegalisation, Masculinity and Intimacy. The Impact of Contemporary Representations on Male Migrants with Precarious Legal Status.’ Doctoral Program: Migration and Postcolonial Studies Meet Switzerland. Münchenwiler, 12. – 13. October 2017.

‘Anticipating What? Immigration Enforcement and Control Avoidance in the ‚Absence’ of Black Letter Law’, together with Lisa Marie Borrelli, Tobias Eule and Annika Lindberg. ‘Anticipating Law. The Prognostics of Fear and Hope. 2017 EASA’ Lawnet Workshop 19-21 September 2017, University of Bern.

‘The Rejected and the Time Thieves: Irregular Migrants in Permanent Temporariness’, together with Tobias Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli and Annika Lindberg. 14th IMISCOE Annual Conference. Rotterdam, 28-30 June 2017.

‘Irregular Migrants and Rumours of Rights. The Productive Role of Rumours in Shaping Irregular Migrants‘ Journeys in Europe’ Sussex Migration Graduate Conference 2017. University of Sussex, 26-27 April 2017

‘Männlichkeiten in Zeiten der Im-/Mobilität. Irreguläre Migranten in Europa.’ At conference on ‘Migration und Männlichkeiten. Konstruktionen von Geschlecht und Differenz in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft.’; University of Vienna 19.-20. January 2017.

2016
‘If they accept me, it‘s good, if not, I will go to another country’. Fragmented Journeys of Irregular Migrants in Europe. 14th EASA 2016 biennial conference on ‘Anthropological legacies and human futures’; Milano, 20. - 23. 7., 2016.

‘Everywhere and Nowhere. Cross-Border Mobility of Irregular Migrants within the Schengen Area.’ 2nd Annual Conference of the nccr – on the move on ‘Changing Realities of Migration and Mobility. A Swiss Perspective’, 23. 6. 2016.

‘Between Restriction and Autonomy. Irregular Migrants Struggling for their Chance in Europe’; 6th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, Bergamo, 8. - 11. 6. 2016

‘Between Resilience and Restrictions. Irregular Migrants Struggling for their Aspirations in Europe’. ‘Between Autonomy and Vulnerability: Perspectives on Migration» 20. 5. 2016, University of Neuchâtel.

2014
‘Stuck in Mobility? Fragmented Journeys of Migrants with no Chances of Admission in Europe’. MiReKoc 10th Year Symposium ‘Border, Mobility and Diversity:  Old Questions, New Challenges’, Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc), Istanbul, 20. - 21. November 2014

‘Contested Control: Irregular Transit Migrants in Europe.’ XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology „Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 13. - 19. 7. 2014

2013
‘Irregular Migrants and the European Migration Regime. A Research Outline’; Doctoral Programme by the Centre of Migration Law, Studen (BE), 28. - 30. 11. 2013.

‘Lost in Transit? Fragmented Journeys and Social Networks of Young Migrants without Chance of Admission in Europe’; Workshop ‘Contested Control at the Margins of the State’, University of Bern, 22. - 23. 11. 2013

Doctoral Programmes, Summer Schools

Transdisciplinary Doctoral Programme: ‘Migration and Postcoloniality Meet Switzerland’, University of Fribourg (https://lettres.unifr.ch/de/hist/gmzg/doktoratsprogramm.html)  

Swiss Graduate Programme in Anthropology (http://anthropology.cuso.ch/fr/welcome/)  

IMISCOE Winter School in Antwerp, 20. - 24. 1. 2014  

Memberships in Professional Associations

Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (kritnet)  

Swiss Network for Young Migration Scholars  

Languages

German (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
French (good)
Italian (good communication skills)
Indonesian (good communication skills)
Spanish (fair)
Serbo-Croatian (basic)
Latin