Making Refugees' Political Agency Visible

Refugees and asylum seekers as agents of global politics, broadening our thinking about political agency beyond statism, citizenship, and organized political protest. Forced migration is a key formative phenomenon of international politics but debates habitually discuss displacement only as an abstract number, economic challenge.

Auteur

Dr Amelie Harbisch is a PostDoc at the University of Erfurt. As part of the BMBF-funded project "KNOWPRO", she is researching knowledge production in German peace and security policy. She focuses on ethnographic work, migration, and international political sociology (practice theory, performance/performativity, discourse).