Research

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Main areas of work and research

  • Gender studies, feminist and queer theory
  • Postcolonial theories
  • Migration and border regime research
  • Cultural and postcolonial studies
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Social movements, women's and feminist movements, indigenous movements
  • Third gender space
  • Latin American research, in particular Mexico
  • Sexualities and diversity of lifestyles

Research stays

02-04/2019 Research semester in Santiago de Chile
03/2018 Workshop "Movilidades Globales, Género y Feminismo", UAM Xochimilco, Mexico
DFG "Building international cooperation"
02/2018 ICDD project workshop "Economic and Social Upgrading in Agrucultural Value Chain", Federal University of Rio de Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil
12/2016-01/2017 Research stay "Shifts in the International Migration Regime", Chile
02-03/2015 Research stay in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay: "Migration Societies. Paths and routes, stories and images of international migration"
10/2013 Teaching research project in Mexico: "trabajo digno. Work, gender, migration on the Mexican southern border" (funded by DAAD/Promos & the QSL Commission Internationalization of the University of Kassel)
02-03/2012 Teaching research project in Mexico: "Migration - Gender - Human Rights. Local structures, realities of life and social organizations under the influence of migration" in cooperation with the University of Münster, Prof. Dr. Hanns Wienold (funded by FB 05 of the University of Kassel)
02-03/2010 Teaching research project in Cuba: "Cuba between revolution and transformation" with 14 students in cooperation with the University of Münster, Prof. Dr. Hanns Wienold (DAAD funded)
03/2008 Teaching research project in Mexico: "Migration - Labor - Gender at the Mexican Northern Border, Cd. Juárez" with 14 students in cooperation with the University of Münster, Prof. Dr. Hanns Wienold (DAAD funded)
08-09/2005 Field research in Juchitán, Mexico: "Subject positioning in the 3rd gender space"
08-09/2004 Teaching research project in Mexico: "Identities and social positioning in the Mexican transformation process" with 11 students from the University of Münster (DAAD funded)
02-03/2004 Field research in Mexico: "Social movements in Mexico" Supervision of 2 students from the University of Münster
10/2003 Student conference and study trip to Russia: "Gender & Society" with 6 students at the University of Ryazan and Moscow (DAAD funded)