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Dr. Lea Müller-Funk

Research Fellow

Short CV

  • Since 09/2019: Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

  • 2017 - 2019: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam

  • 2016 - 2017: OxPo Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

  • 2011 - 2017: Lecturer (2015-2017) and PhD Researcher (2011-2016) at the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna

  • 2012 - 2016: PhD Researcher at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Sciences Po Paris

  • Education: 2011-2016: Joint PhD in Political Science and Arabic Studies (Sciences Po Paris & University of Vienna) Dissertation “Transnational Politics Beyond the Arab Uprisings. Egyptian Activism in Vienna and Paris” (2016 Award of Excellence, Austrian Ministry of Science, Research & Economy); 2009-2010: M.A. in Comparative Politics (specialisation Middle East and Muslim World) at Sciences Po Paris; 2005-2010: Magister in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Vienna; 2007-2008: Erasmus exchange at the Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales (INALCO), Paris; 2006-2009: B.A. in Political Science, University of Vienna

Current Research

  • (Im)mobility in the context of conflict and war

  • Drivers of (forced) migration

  • Migration governance

  • Diaspora politics and transnational political participation

Countries and Regions

  • North Africa

  • Middle East

  • Europe

Research Programme

Publications

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Projects

01/09/2020 - 31/08/2022

Teaching Immigration in European Schools

Migration has always been an intrinsic part of human societies across the globe. People have been mobile to lead a nomadic life, to explore the planet, to flee persecution and violence, to find work, or to pursue education. Yet, migration is often dealt with as a side-topic in school curricula. This stands in stark contrast to its omnipresence in public debates. This project brings academic knowledge of migration to European classrooms to convey a more comprehensive understanding of migration and...
01/11/2018 - 01/10/2023

Migration Governance and Asylum Crises, Work Package "Comparing Crises"

This project explores how European migration policies are influenced by political crises triggered by (forced) migration. At a time when such policies are heavily contested across European member-states, and when asylum seems more threatened than ever, this project is critically important to improve our understanding of how migration policies are formulated and shaped by a context of crisis. The project gathers 13 partners from diverse European countries, as well as from Lebanon and Turkey, and GIGA leads the Work Package...

Lectures

Organiser | 08/07/2021

18th IMISCOE Annual Conference

08/07/2021

Co-organiser of panel Changing Aspirations in Contexts of Forced Migration
Session #125 workshop | SC Reflexive Migration Studies

Speakers:
Ayşen Üstübici (Koç University)
Lea Müller-Funk (GIGA)
Milena Belloni (University of Antwerp)
Anja van Heelsum (University of Amsterdam)
Eda Kirişçioğlu (University of Amsterdam)
Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University)
Jørgen Carling (PRIO)
Kerilyn Schewel (Duke University)
Lea Müller-Funk (German Institute of Global and Area Studies)
Meriç Çağlar Cesley (Central European University)
Natalie Welfens (University of Amsterdam)
Sevda Tunaboylu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Dr. Lea Müller-Funk Research Fellow
Speaker | 27/10/2020

Webinar Series "Zooming in on Migration and Asylum"

Seminar
Online event: 27/10/2020
Organisers: Advancing Alternative Migration Governance, Transnational Figurations of Displacement, Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus, Migration Governance and Asylum Crises

Session #4: Comparing Crises – „Migration Crises“ in the Middle East and North Africa
Dr. Christiane Fröhlich, Research Fellow
Dr. André Bank, Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Lea Müller-Funk, Research Fellow
Wilma Mattea Weihe
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