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Forced Migration Studies Blog – contributions to displacement, asylum and forced migration
The Forced Migration Studies Blog is part of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, a multidisciplinary network of scholars conducting research on displacement, forced migration, and refuge.
The goal of the Forced Migration Studies Blog is to provide a platform for information and exchange. Similar to multi- and interdisciplinary research on forced migration and refugees, blog posts deal with diverse topics from different disciplinary perspectives. They examine current developments, historical processes, and political debates on refugee protection and reflect upon living conditions of refugees, legal contexts as well as methodological and ethical issues. Contributions are primarily written by members of the Network for Forced Migration Studies and occasionally by experts from academia, practice, media and politics.
The Forced Migration Studies Blog was founded in January 2015 by Ulrike Krause, who managed the blog and the editorial board and was joined in September 2018 by Marcus Engler. Since its inception, more than 300 posts have been published by about 200 authors, covering many different topics and regions.
The content published on the Forced Migration Studies Blog receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and is published under the Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA. Further information can be found here.
If you have any questions, would like to comment or submit a post, please feel free to contact the editorial team.
Editorial board
The editorial board is as multidisciplinary as forced migration studies is. All editorial board members volunteer their time to the Blog. They read, review, and edit all posts before publication.
As of August of 2025, the editorial board is led by Andrea Rumpel (University Duisburg-Essen), Daniele Saracino (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies) and Simon Weiser (LMU Munich).
The editorial board members are
- Marcel Berlinghoff, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück
- Annett Bochmann, Institute of Social Science, Humboldt University Berlin
- Hanno Brankamp, University of Glasgow
- Hannah Edler, Institute for Adult Education, Bonn
- Claudia Engelmann, German Institute for Human Rights
- Marcus Engler, German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM-Institut), Berlin
- Yaatsil Guevara González, University of Heidelberg
- Katharina Heilmann, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück
- Therese Herrmann, University Duisburg-Essen
- Thomas Kemper, Technical University Dortmund
- Judith Kohlenberger, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Laura Lambert, Leuphana University Lüneburg
- Bernd Parusel, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS)
- Nadine Segadlo, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück
- Aurelia Streit, IOM Austria
- Anne Schlüter, University of Münster
- Tamara Tries, University of Innsbruck
- Cordula von Denkowski, Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts
- Marie Walter-Franke, Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR)
- Janna Weßels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Research Group Migration & Human Rights, Justus Liebig University Gießen
Former board members are
- Svenja Gertheiss, Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)
- Joël Glasman, University Bayreuth
- Felix Korts, Institute for Political Science, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
- Hannah Schmidt, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University Osnabrück
- Petra Sußner, DFG Research Group on Law-Gender-Collectivity, Humboldt University Berlin
Former heads of the editorial board are
- Marcus Engler, German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM-Institut), Berlin
- Katharina Heilmann, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück
- Therese Herrmann, University Duisburg-Essen
- Ulrike Krause, University of Münster