Monika Eigmüller

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Monika Eigmüller (* 1975 ) is a German sociologist with a research focus on European sociology. She was or is a professor at the European University of Flensburg , at the University of Leipzig and at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Monika Eigmüller did her doctorate in 2006 at the University of Leipzig on the subject of "European Border Security Policy". After several research stays in the USA and her position as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Leipzig, she took over the management of the junior research group "Social Space Europe" in 2008, funded by the Schumpeter Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation . In the summer semester of 2012, Monika Eigmüller came to the Free University of Berlin as a visiting professor (on behalf of Jürgen Gerhards ) . Since December 2012 she has been the head of the research network “Socio-histoire der Europeanisierung” at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (together with Nikola Tietze). Her research focuses on European sociological topics, in particular European social policy, European migration policy, comparative welfare state research, historical-sociological research and border sociology.

On March 1, 2015, Monika Eigmüller accepted the call to the W3 professorship for General Sociology / Focus on European Studies at the European University of Flensburg .

engagement

Monika Eigmüller has been a member of the Council for European Studies (Columbia University, USA) / Section "Industrial Relations, Skill Formation and Welfare State Policies" since March 2011. From 2001 to 2002 she was equal opportunities officer in the Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy at the University of Leipzig .

Publications (selection)

  • (2013): Europeanization from Below. The Influence of Individual Actors on the EU Integration of Social Policies . Journal of European Social Policy, 23 (4), 364–376.
  • Börner, Stefanie; Eigmüller, Monika; Senghaas, Monika (2013): (Re) organizing Social Security. Social Policy in Europe between Territory, Legitimacy and Identity . SEU Working Paper 6/2013, Leipzig.
  • (2012): Europeanization of Social Policy. The influence of individual actors on the integration process . In: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 58 (3), 263–287.
  • (Ed.) (2012): Between Community and Society. Social policy from a historical-sociological perspective . Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa.
  • (2012): The added value of historical-sociological approaches in the analysis of European integration. The example of the emergence and development of social policy . SEU Working Papers, 4/2012.
  • (2011): The integration of disintegration into the theories of European integration. A proposal for an extended theoretical approach. In: Hans-Georg Soeffner (ed.): Negotiations of the 35th Congress of the German Society for Sociology in Frankfurt am Main 2010. Campus, Frankfurt / Main.
  • Eigmüller, Monika / Steffen Mau (eds.) (2010): Social theory and European politics. Social science approaches to European research . Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
  • Eigmüller, Monika / Vobruba, Georg (2010): Between Exclusion and Selectivity. The external border policy of the European Union . In: Commune. Forum for Politics, Economy, Culture, Issue 4 (2010): 14–17.
  • Eigmüller, Monika / Roos, Christof (eds.) (2010), Selective Borders . Special issue of Welttrends magazine. Journal for International Politics, Issue 71.
  • (2010), The Principle of Religious Neutrality of the European Union as Reflected in the Debate on Turkey's Accession . In: Matthias Petzoldt (ed.), Europe's religious culture (s). Leipzig: Ev. Publishing house.
  • Eigmüller, Monika / Roos, Christof (2010): From avoiding migration to selective border opening. New paths in European migration policy. In: world trends. Journal for International Politics, Issue 71, 25–34.
  • Eigmüller, Monika / Vobruba, Georg (2009): Selective border opening within the framework of the European neighborhood policy. In: Martin Möllers and Robert van Ooyen (eds.), Migration, Integration and European Border Policy. Special issue of the Public Safety Yearbook. Frankfurt / Main: Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, 493–504.
  • Eigmüller, Monika / Fehmel, Thilo (2008): European social model and EU social policy. In: Soziologische Revue 31, Issue 4: 387–396.
  • Eigmüller, Monika / Müller, Andreas (eds.) (2008): Subversion am Rande. Border violations in the 20th and 21st centuries. Journal of Global History and Comparative Society Research, 18 (1).
  • (2007): Border Security Policy. Function and effect of the European external border. A study using the example of Spanish migration and labor market policy. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
  • Eigmüller, Monika / Vobruba, Georg (eds.) (2006): Grenzsoziologie. The political structuring of space. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.

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SURNAME Eigmüller, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eigmüller, Monika Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1975