Publications of Tabea Scharrer

Scharrer, Tabea, Laura Lambert, Stefan Millar, Mert Peksen, and Ville Laakkonen. 2024. Contested future-making in containment: temporalities, infrastructures and agency. Comparative Migration Studies (12): 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00413-z.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2023. Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali migrants navigating the dangers of ransom smuggling in Northern Africa. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 709(1): 86–104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162241246664.

Hoehne, Markus V. and Tabea Scharrer. 2023. Balancing inclusion and exclusion among Somali migrants in Germany. International Migration 61(3): 87–101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12856.

Scharrer, Tabea and Sawitri Saharso. 2023. Beyond 'race'? A rejoinder. Comparative Migration Studies 11: 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00330-7.

Hoehne, Markus Virgil, Tabea Scharrer, and Katrin Seidel. 2022. Somalia und Südsudan: Demokratieexport in der Sackgasse. Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 67(4): 29–32.

Scharrer, Tabea and Sawitri Saharso. 2022. Beyond race? Comparative Migration Studies 10: 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00272-y.

Hunkler, Christian, Tabea Scharrer, Magdalena Suerbaum, and Zeynep Yanasmayan. 2022. Spatial and social im/mobility in forced migration: revisiting class. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(20): 4829–4846. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2123431.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2022. Creating an atmosphere of intellectual superiority: islamic missionary work in Kenya as staged competition in a climate of religious diversity. Journal of Contemporary Religion 37(2): 203–222. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2073029.

Scharrer, Tabea and Magdalena Suerbaum. 2022. Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(20): 4847–4864. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2123432.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2020. „It is better to do business in Africa than in Europe”: socio-economic positionings among business-minded European Somalis moving to Kenya. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 18(3): 270–285. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2020.1773009.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2018. “Ambiguous citizens”: Kenyan Somalis and the question of belonging. Journal of Eastern African Studies 12(3): 494–513. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2018.1483864.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2014. Unsere Somalis, fremde Somalis. Welt-Sichten 5: 24–27.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2012. Zwischen Marginalisierung und Integration: somalische Flüchtlinge in Kenia. Inamo 18(71): 31–34.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2007. Konversion in Ostafrika im Spannungsfeld zwischen islamischer und christlicher Mission. Historische Anthropologie 15(1): 118–125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7788/ha.2007.15.1.118.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2005. Conversion to Islam in East Africa - ideas and mediators. Orient Bulletin 9: 2–3.

Lems, Annika and Tabea Scharrer. 2023. Ethnologie. In: Tabea Scharrer, Birgit Glorius, J. Olaf Kleist, and Marcel Berlinghoff (eds.). Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Nomos Handbuch. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 77–86.

Scharrer, Tabea, Birgit Glorius, J. Olaf Kleist, and Marcel Berlinghoff. 2023. Editorial. In: Tabea Scharrer (ed.). Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Nomos Handbuch. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 21–28.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2019. 'Ethnic neighborhoods' and/or cosmopolitanism? The art of living together. In: Elisabeth Wacker, Ulrich Becker, and Katharina Crepaz (eds.). Refugees and forced migrants in Africa and the EU: comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives on challenges and solutions. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 129–150.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2019. Reinventing retail: 'Somali' shopping centres in Kenya. In: Neil Carrier and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). Mobile urbanity: Somali presence in urban East Africa. Integration and Conflict Studies 20. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 157–178.

Scharrer, Tabea and Neil Carrier. 2019. Introduction: mobile urbanity; Somali presence in urban East Africa. In: Neil Carrier and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). Mobile urbanity: Somali presence in urban East Africa. Integration and Conflict Studies 20. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 3–25.

O'Kane, David and Tabea Scharrer. 2018. Anthropology and class in Africa: challenges of the past and present. In: Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). Middle classes in Africa: changing lives and conceptual challenges. Frontiers of Globalization. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81–105.

Scharrer, Tabea, David O'Kane, and Lena Kroeker. 2018. Introduction: Africa’s middle classes in critical perspective. In: Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). Middle classes in Africa: changing lives and conceptual challenges. Frontiers of Globalization. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–31.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2007. Religious practices: conversion; East Africa. In: Suad Joseph (ed.). Encyclopedia of women and Islamic cultures: practices, interpretations and representations 5. Leiden: Brill, pp. 288–290.

Yanasmayan, Zeynep, Magdalena Suerbaum, and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). 2022. Spatial and social im/mobility in forced migration: revisiting class. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(20).

Scharrer, Tabea. 2021. Sarah Hillewaert, Morality at the margins: youth, language, and Islam in coastal Kenya. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019, pp. ix + 311. Islamic Africa 11(2): 261–264. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01101014.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2016. Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya. A social history of the Shifta conflict, c. 1963-1968, written by Hannah Whittaker. Islamic Africa 7(1): 121–123. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-00701010.

Scharrer, Tabea, Birgit Glorius, Olaf Kleist, and Marcel Berlinghoff (eds.). 2023. Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Nomos Handbuch. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Carrier, Neil C. M. and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). 2019. Mobile urbanity: Somali presence in urban East Africa. Integration and Conflict Studies 20. New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Kroeker, Lena, David O'Kane, and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). 2018. Middle classes in Africa: changing lives and conceptual challenges. 1. ed. Frontiers of Globalization. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2013. Narrative islamischer Konversion: biographische Erzählungen konvertierter Muslime in Ostafrika. Globaler lokaler Islam. Bielefeld: transcript.

Hoehne, Markus Virgil, Tabea Scharrer, and Katrin Seidel. 2023. Misguided external engagements in Somalia and South Sudan: time to rethink political interventions. Tabea Scharrer: Social Anthropologist. https://www.tabea-scharrer.de/post/misguided-external-engagements-in-somalia-and-south-sudan-time-to-rethink-political-interventions.

Scharrer, Tabea. 2021. GAA 2021 conference diary: atmospheric discussions? Allegra Laboratory. https://allegralaboratory.net/gaa-2021-conference-diary-atmospheric-discussions.