Visiting Researchers

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Winter Term 2025/26

Zainab Iftikhar, University of Bonn
"Problem or opportunity? Immigration, job search, entrepreneuship and labour market outcomes of natives in Germany", Lecture Series, October 27, 2025

Kristin Surak, London School of Economics and Political Science
"Golden Passports and Global Inequalities", Lecture Series, November 17, 2025

Hannah Illing, University Bonn
"The Labor Market Costs of Job Displacement by Migrant Status. (with Mária Balgová)", Lecture Series, December 15, 2025

Valeria Pulignano, KU Leuven
"The Politics of Unpaid Labour", Lecture Series, January 26, 2026

Summer Term 2025

Renzo Scolacchia, Università Iuav di Venezia
“Living Labour”, Movie Screening and Discussion, June 30, 2025

Sebastian Rumsby, University of Birmingham
"Reconceptualising cross-border labour markets as global labour migration chains: mobilities from/to/in/through Vietnam", Lecture Series, June 2, 2025

Claudia Finotelli, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
“Intra-EU Mobility and Welfare: A Southern European Perspective”, Lecture Series, May 12, 2025

Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College and Erica Dobbs, Pomona College
“Transnational Social Protection: Changing Social Welfare in a World on the Move”, Lecture Series Online, April 28, 2025

Winter Term 2024/25

Karin Krifors, Lingköping University
“Logistics of transnational labour and logisticality of mobile workers: how the spatial 'match' is imagined and critiqued”, Lecture Series, October 14, 2024

Yuliya Kosyakova, University Bamberg
“Understanding Migration and Integration from the Life-Course Perspective: Insights from the International Mobility Panel (IMPa)”, Lecture Series, November 11, 2024

Tobias Schulze Cleven, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations
“Precarious Professionalism: High-Skilled Workers’ Collective Voice in American Healthcare and Higher Education”, Lecture Series, December 16, 2024

Johann Lindquist, Stockholm University
“Infrastructures of Circulation: Migrant Health Assessments and Preparatory Training in Southeast Asia and East Africa”, Lecture Series, January 13, 2025

Summer Term 2024

Ludger Pries, Ruhr Universität Bochum
“Investigating Cross-Border Labor Markets. Empirical and Theoretical Challenges – Sociological and Economic Perspectives”, Keynote at the RTG Launch Event, April 8th, 2024

Michele Battisti, Glasgow University
“The Role of Networks in Migration: Quantitative Evidence and Methodological Challenges” Keynote at the RTG Launch Event, April 8th, 2024

Wayne Palmer, Bielefeld University
“Labour market institutions for immigrants: the case of high-wage migrant workers Indonesia”, Lecture Series, June 10, 2024

Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University (July 11- July 20)

Individual Supervision for Doctoral Researchers in Duisburg, July 12, 2024
“Global Labor Migration. New Directions”, Lecture Series, July 15, 2024
Individual Supervision with for Doctoral Researchers in Bielefeld, July 16, 2024

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