My research agenda focuses on the challenges and opportunities to democracy that arise in the context of migration, religious pluralism, and societal polarization over values. ​Within this broader context, my research analyzes the interplay between values, ideas and interests in politics and their impact on policy-making.  I am particularly interested in ethically motivated political action, civil society activism, solidarity movements with migrants, and transnational advocacy networks.

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Nicole’s research interests lie at the intersection of implementation, knowledge production and resistance in migration governance. She is particularly interested in the negotiated, (co)produced and contested processes of knowledge production and implementation by frontline actors from across national and organisational divides, as well as the role of emotions and moral intuitions in these processes. A key theme of her work focuses on how frontline actors understand and reconcile their role in exclusionary and violent states practices, focusing on the implementation of deportation and migration externalisation. Nicole is also an associate editor at the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Theresa’s PhD project investigates practices and spheres of sanctuary in desert borderlands. It looks at initiatives in the Sahel-region, as well as the Sonoran desert to further our understanding of the territorial preconditions of sanctuary. On the one hand, migration governance of migration in these desert borderlands is characterized by the involvement of a multiplicity of national, international and supranational actors. On the other hand, state’s absence and a form of active neglect shapes often life-risking migratory experiences on these territories. Further the project is interested in the subject-object relations evolving in sanctuary and general migrant support initiatives within post-colonial contexts, and how this is reflected in the normative justifications on which the activities are based.

Oleksandra`s doctoral project is dedicated to the war-affected politics of memory and the post-revolutionary state identity of Ukraine. Within the project "Migration as Morality Politics", she was responsible for creating and maintaining the database of sanctuary campaigns in Europe (2000-2022) covering all cases of sanctuaries widely covered by the media. This database will be available online for scholars and activists studying and working on sanctuary, solidarity movements, asylum laws, etc.

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