Karin Scherschel

Karin Scherschel (* 1968 in St. Wendel ) is a German sociologist who teaches and researches as a professor for refugee and migration research at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . She heads the Center for Flight and Migration (ZfM) Ingolstadt-Eichstätt.

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Career

Scherschel studied sociology at the universities in Saarbrücken and Bielefeld. She was a PhD scholarship holder from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Graduate Funding North Rhine-Westphalia (1999–2002). In 2003 she received her doctorate from the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University with a thesis on "Racism as a flexible symbolic resource - a study on racist arguments".

From 2007 to 2014 she was a research assistant at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . She was a research fellow at the DFG college “Post-growth societies” at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Between 2006 and 2014 she held various substitute professorships, including a. the professorship “Sociology with a focus on social inequality and gender research” at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the representation of the professorship for sociological theory and social analysis (taking the gender dimension into account) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz . In 2014, she completed her habilitation in Jena on the subject of “Precarious Positions in Asylum and Refugee Migration. Studies on the significance of state regulations for social inequality ”and received the venia legendi for sociology.

From 2014 to 2020 she was professor for the social science basics of social work with a focus on social inequality and participation at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. In the summer semester 2017 she was also Sir Ustinov visiting professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna .

Since March 2020, Scherschel has held the professorship for flight and migration research at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and is head of the Center for Flight and Migration (ZfM) Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. She is u. a. Member of the Council for Migration , Network for Flight Research, Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research and Liaison Lecturer at the Hans Böckler Foundation .

Research priorities

Flight and asylum , migration , racism , citizenship , structural change in gainful employment, precarization, activating labor market policy, social inequality and participation, social work , gender studies , qualitative methods .

Publications (selection)

• Who is a refugee? Basics of a sociology of forced migration. Book series "Fluchtaspekte: Supporting and accompanying refugees psychosocially" . V&R Verlag, 2019. With Albert Scherr. ISBN 978-3-525-40484-3 .
• Racism as a flexible symbolic resource. A study of racist argumentation figures. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8394-0290-0
• Refugee Migration and Society. Of benefit calculations, solidarity and exclusion. Book series "Arbeitsgesellschaft im Wandel". Beltz Juventa, 2019. With Kristina Binner. ISBN 978-3-7799-6122-2
• At the borders of democracy - Citizenship and flight. In: Berlin Journal for Sociology. 28 (1), pp. 123-149. 2018. ISSN  0863-1808
• Who is a refugee? Reflections on social classifications and individual consequences. In: Migration Letters, Special Issue: Survival Strategies of Irregular Immigrants. Vol. 8 (1): 67-76. 2011:
• Tests for the lower class? Social consequences of activating labor market policy. Frankfurt / New York: Campus-Verlag 2013. With Klaus Dörre / Melanie Booth / Tine Haubner and Kai Marquardsen. ISBN 978-3-593-39797-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Karin Scherschel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karin Scherschel on the homepage of the Catholic University of Ingolstadt-Eichstätt
• Karin Scherschel on the website of the escape research network

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel" website of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, accessed on August 2, 2020.
2. ↑ "List of Scholarship Holders" website of the Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaft , accessed on August 2, 2020.
3. ^ "Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel" website of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, accessed on August 2, 2020.
4. ^ "Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel" website of the Sir Peter Ustinow Institute, accessed on August 2, 2020.
5. ^ "Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel" website of the Council for Migration, accessed on August 2, 2020.
6. ^ "Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel" website of the Escape Research Network, accessed on August 2, 2020.