Dissertation Prize 2025

The Migration and Ethnic Minorities Section is awarding  its prize for outstanding doctoral theses in 2025 to Dina Bolokan and Jana Catalina Glaese.

Dina Bolokan: Everyday Coloniality: The Political Economy of Labor Migration in the Agricultural Sector in Europe. University of Basel. https://genderstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/de/doktorat/abgeschlossene-dissertationen/dina-bolokan/

Jana Catalina Glaese: Making a Market of Migrant Workers: Recruiters, Small Businesses, and Contested Justifications of Foreign Recruitment in East Germany. New York University.

The award ceremony took place during the spring conference of the section Contested Memory in Post-Migrant Society on June 23 at the Munich University of Applied Sciences.

We received over 35 submissions this year and would like to highlight the following works (special mention) from among a large number of excellent entries:

Valentin Feneberg: Die Heimat der Anderen. Ermittlung und Verwendung von Herkunftslandinformationen in Asylverfahren (The Homeland of Others: Investigation and Use of Country of Origin Information in Asylum Proceedings). Baden-Baden: Nomos. Open access: https://www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/die-heimat-der-anderen-gr-978-3-7560-1922-9

Aino Korvensyrjä: Conflicts over Duldung and Deportation. West African Perspectives on German Immigration Enforcement and European borders. University of Helsinki.

Thomas Stieber: Muster migrantischer Arbeit. Von möglichen Sprungbrettern, unmöglichen Bewährungsproben, neuer Migration und alten Grenzen – Ergebnisse arbeitssoziologischer Untersuchungen an einem Großkrankenhaus (Patterns of migrant work. On possible springboards, impossible trials, new migration, and old borders – Results of sociological studies on work at a large hospital). Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Dissertation prize 2023

The Migration and Ethnic Minorities Section of the German Sociological Association awards its prize for outstanding doctoral theses in 2023 to Dr. Marie-Therese Haj Ahmad for her dissertation entitled "Begrenzte Teilhabe in Europa. Auseinandersetzungen um inner-EU-europäische Migration am Beispiel der Wohnungslosigkeit von Unionsbürger*innen in Deutschland". The award ceremony took place as part of the autumn conference of the section "Confronting European pasts in the present" on November 10, 2023 at the Technical University of Berlin. The dissertation was published under the title "Von Ein- und Ausschlüssen in Europa. Eine ethnographische Studie zu EU-Migration und Wohnungslosigkeit in Deutschland" and is available open access.