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My research concerns the fields of migration, mobilities and transnational connections and their implications for the processes of inclusion and exclusion, the concept of citizenship and social and labour rights. I am interested in the ways in which transnational mobilities are regulated and governed and in the practices, contestations and struggles responding to, challenging or supporting these. I thereby also consider the role of urban and spatial dynamics and transformations together with the production and reproduction of social inequalities and hierarchies between people and places. I currently follow these interests along the following lines:
- Migration and the city
- Transnationalization and social inequalities
- Mobility and work in the global world
In my first line I have done research on migrant organisations in cities across Europe and analyzed their accommodation shaped by the political opportunities and constraints originating from multiple governance arrangements on various scales. More recently this interest into accommodation and urban inclusion has led me to more closely engage with the often neglected perspective on (urban) exclusion and the emergent role of the city in border control. You find more information on my new project Urban Border Spaces (2018-2021, PI: Dr. Margit Fauser, funded by DFG) here
My second line of research investigates the connection between transnationalization and social inequalities. I coordinated and participated in the Transnationalization and Inequalities project within the Collaborative Research Centre 882, (2011-2015, PI: Prof. Thomas Faist, PhD and Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Razum, funded by DFG). I have further developed this inquiry into transnational social inequalities from a perspective on citizenship. Here I look at privilege as a neglected aspect of inequality and investigate the lifestyle mobilities of privileged emigrants moving across uneven geographies from the global north to the south (2013-2018).
Selected Publications:
M. Fauser, 2018, Mixed-method and multi-sited: challenges for migration research from a transnational perspective , Journal of Mixed Methods Research 12(4): 394-412, DOI: 10.1177/1558689817702752
M. Fauser, 2017, Methodenpluralität als Perspektiven-Pluralität: Methodologische Grenzziehungen im Bereich der Transnationalen Migrationsforschung , Geschlossene Gesellschaften. Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bamberg 2016. Lessenich S (Ed)
M. Fauser, E. Liebau, S. Voigtländer, H. Tuncer, T. Faist, O. Razum, 2015, Measuring transnationality of immigrants in Germany: prevalence and relationship with social inequalities, Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(9): 1497-1519, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1005639
Faist T., M. Fauser & Reisenauer E., 2013, Transnational Migration, Cambridge: Polity Press
I have further developed this inquiry into transnational social inequalities from a perspective on citizenship. Here I look at privilege as a neglected aspect of inequality and investigate the lifestyle mobilities of privileged emigrants moving across uneven geographies from the global north to the south (2013-2018).
Selected Publications:
M. Fauser, 2016, A view on the reverse map of migration between Germany and Turkey , Turkish Review 6(3): 116-124
M.Fauser, fortcoming, Mobile citizenship. Spatial privilege and the transnational lifestyles of senior citizens, London: Routledge
The third line of my research deals with mobility and work and in particular labour rights activism by trade unions, social movements, migrant organizations and mobilization, relating to my interest in citizenship and participation as well as in space, flows and place. Here I am specifically interested in the challenges that come out of cross-border mobility of workers that often constitute specifically vulnerable groups at the intersection of origin, legal status, qualification, ethnicity and gender. Here I am currently teaching and supervising a Student research project on "Transnational labour mobility in Europe", including an excursion to Romania in cooperation with the Romanian Center for Comparative Migration Studies at Babes-Bolyai University, supported by German Academic Exchange Service-program PROMOS. Our research is interested in the challenges that come out of an increasingly hypermobile, transnational labour mobility across Europe, and in particular to Germany originating in Eastern and Southern Europe.