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Laura Stielike

I am currently member of th research group "The Production of Knowledge on Migration" with a project on big data, migration governance and the production of knowledge. The project explores the recent trend to use big data for the analysis and governance of international migration. Focusing on the emerging transnational network of international organisations‘ data hubs and university based data researchers, it examines how the use of big data transforms the production of knowledge about migration.

Since 09/2024, I am associate member of the Collaborative Research Centre "Production of Migration" (SFB 1604).

I joined the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) as postdoctoral researcher in 2016 after completing my doctorate in political science at Freie Universität Berlin. My doctoral dissertation explores the apparatus of migration and development with a focus on Cameroonian migrants in Germany. During my doctoral research I was Visiting Fellow at the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford. As teaching assistant for the Chair of Gender and Diversity Studies at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin, I have taught courses on migration theory, postcolonial studies and discourse analysis. I studied political science at Freie Universität Berlin and at Sciences Po Paris. In my master‘s thesis I researched the colonial continuities of German development cooperation in the era of good governance. I have also worked in development organisations in Cameroon, China and Germany.

Academia.edu: uni-osnabrueck.academia.edu/LauraStielike

Publications

Monograph

Stielike, Laura (2017): Entwicklung durch Migration? Eine postkoloniale Dispositivanalyse am Beispiel Kamerun-Deutschland. Bielefeld: Transcript. http://www.transcript-verlag.de/Flyer/download/ordernumber/3980

Edited Volumes

Stielike, Laura with Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp (eds.) (2023): Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/63/61/29/oa9783839457122.pdf

Stielike, Laura with Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp (eds.) (2022): Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe. www.migrationsbegriffe.de https://doi.org/10.25887/idmb

Articles

Stielike, Laura with Schäfer, Philipp/Stierl, Maurice/Bartels, Inken (2024): The Moral Economies of Reflexive Migration Studies. Special Issue “Towards reflexivity in the study of mobility and diversity: theories, positionality and the political economy of knowledge production", edited by Iva Dodevska and Maissam Nimer, Migration Studies. doi: doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnae021

Stielike, Laura with Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp (2023): Sprache - Macht - Migration. In: Kurzdossier "Zugehörigkeit und Zusammenhalt in der Migrationsgesellschaft", Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung. https://www.bpb.de/themen/migration-integration/kurzdossiers/522754/sprache-macht-migration/

Stielike, Laura with Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp (2023): Umkämpfte Begriffe: Reflexive Perspektiven auf Migration und Sprache. In: Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar, edited by Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/63/61/29/oa9783839457122.pdf

Stielike, Laura (2023): Diaspora. In: Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/ Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (Hrsg.): Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/63/61/29/oa9783839457122.pdf

Stielike, Laura (2023): Big Data. In: Berlinghoff, Marcel/Glorius, Birgit/Kleist, J. Olaf/Scharrer, Tabea (Hrsg.) Handbuch Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Stielike, Laura (2023): Diaspora. In: Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (Hrsg.): Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe, 15.02.2023. Online: http://www.migrationsbegriffe.de/diaspora, DOI: https://doi.org/10.48693/253.

Stielike, Laura (2022): Producing Migration Knowledge: From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy? In: Ehlers, Sarah/Esselborn, Stefan (eds.): Evidence in Action between Science and Society. Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge. London: Routledge, 113-138. doi: 10.4324/9781003188612-13

Stielike, Laura (2022): Politiken der Wissensproduktion: Das Beispiel der Migrationsforschung. In: Weingart, Peter/Schuppert, Gunnar Folke/Römhildt, Roland (eds.): Herrschaft und Wissen. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 219-240. doi: 10.5771/9783748910602-219. Avialable online here

Stielike, Laura (2022): "Das Dispositiv als Analyseperspektive für die Migrationsforschung."Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung, Ausgabe 2, Jahr 2020, S. 226-249.

Stielike, Laura (2022): “Migration Multiple? Big Data, Knowledge Practices and the Governability of Migration.” In Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies. Caring for (Big) Data, edited by Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, and Martin Bak Jørgensen, 113–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81226-3_5.

Stielike, Laura (2021): Dispositive der (Im)mobilisierung. Fluchtursachenbekämpfung in genealogischer Perspektive. Global Migration Studies, No. 1. Göttingen: Centre for Global Migration Studies. DOI: 10.3249/2702-7872-gms-1. https://goedoc.uni-goettingen.de/handle/1/17727

Stielike, Laura (2018): Vertrautheit durch Vergangenheit? (Post-)Koloniale Migration zwischen Kamerun und Deutschland. In: Dimbath, Oliver, Anja Kinzler und Katinka Meyer (eds.): Vergangene Vertrautheit. Soziale Gedächtnisse des Ankommens, Aufnehmens und Abweisens. Reihe: Soziales Gedächtnis, Erinnern und Vergessen – Memory Studies. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S.
195-213. www.springer.com/de/book/9783658222307

Stielike, Laura (2017): The Migration&Development Apparatus. Contradictions between international discourse, institutional practices, and migrants’ perspectives. In: International Migration Institute Working Papers Series, No. 136, May 2017.  https://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/news/working-paper-the-migration-development-apparatus

Stielike, Laura (2009): Plaidoyer pour la femme en Afrique. Expérience de la Campagne Semaines Pascales comme modèle de transformation oecuménique et interreligieuse de la société. In: Kenmogne, Jean-Blaise, Kä Mana (eds.): Pour la voie africaine de la non-violence. Religion, politique, développement et éducation à la paix dans la société africaine. Yaoundé: Editions CLÉ, S. 259-283.

Short Articles

Stielike, Laura (2024): The Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies, Migrant Knowledge, June 18, 2024, https://migrantknowledge.org/2024/06/18/politics-of-knowledge-production/.

Stielike, Laura (2022): Integration – Ein umkämpfter Klassiker im Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe. In: clavis – das Arbeitsmarkt- und Integrationsmagazin, Heft 2, 2022.

Stielike, Laura (2013): Wo die wilden Tiere wohnen. Die neue Plakatkampagne „The Big Five!“ reproduziert kolonial-rassistische Bilder. In: Analyse & Kritik, Nr. 583, 17.5.2013. https://www.akweb.de/ak_s/ak583/14.htm

Stielike, Laura (2010): „Wie regieren in Afrika?“ Über koloniale Kontinuitäten deutscher Entwicklungspolitik. In: Hinterland. Magazin vom Bayerischen Flüchtlingsrat, Heft 15, S. 36-39. http://www.hinterland-magazin.de/artikel/wie-regieren-in-afrika/

Selected Presentations

07/2024: (with Maurice Stierl, Philipp Schäfer and Inken Bartels): The Moral Economies of Reflexive Migration Studies, Panel "Knowledge Production on Migration", 21st Annual IMISCOE Conference, ISCTE Lisbon.

07/2023: (with Inken Bartels and Philipp Schäfer): Practicing Double Reflexitivy. Producing Knowledge on the Production of Knowledge on Migration, Panel "Care and harm in the production of knowledge on migration", 20th Annual IMISCOE Conference, University of Warsaw 

03/2023: (with Inken Bartels, Philipp Schäfer and Maurice Stierl) "Sanctioned Ignorance? Postcolonial Challenges for Sociological Migration Research", "Cultural Sociology in Postcolonial Perspective", conference of the section Cultural Sociology of the German Sociological Association (DGS), University of Osnabrück

02/2023: (with Inken Bartels und Philipp Schäfer) "Contested Terminologies of Migration: Presenting the 'Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe'", Workshop „Vocabularies of Migration. Reflexive Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity, Translation and Language in Migration Research“, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen/online

10/2022: (with Inken Bartels and Philipp Schäfer) Workshop "Between care and harm. How can we (self)reflexively study the production of knowledge on migration?", junior scholars' meeting, DeZIM conference 2022, Berlin.

09/2022: (with Inken Bartels and Philipp Schäfter) "Practicing Double Reflexivity. Producing Knowledge on the Production of Knowledge on Migration", Panel of the section "Migration and ethnic minorities" on " "Reflexivity as a Methogological Challenge for Migration Research", 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association "Polarized Worlds", University of Bielefeld.

01/2021: "Migration Multiple. Big Data, Knowledge Practices and the Governability of Migration", STS-MIGTEC Workshop (online).

01/2021: (with Inken Bartels) "What Difference Does the Digital Make? A Comparative Perspective on Statistical and Big Data Based Knowledge Production on Migration", Panel "Doing Reflexive Migration Studies in Digital Times", ESA RN 35 "Sociology of Migration" Midterm Conference "Towards Reflexivity in Migration Studies. Knowledge Production in Times of Contested Politics and Post Colonial Dynamics", Technical University Berlin (online).

09/2020 "Data, Power, Knowledge. An Intersectional Analysis of Big Data based Research on (Forced) Migration", Panel "Forced Migration Research Meets Intersectionality", 3rd Conference of the German Network of Forced Migration Research, University of Cologne (online)

07/2020: "Practicing Double Reflexivity. Big Data and the Production of Knowledge about the Productin of Knowledge about Migration", Panel "Reflexivity in Migration Studies", 17th Annual IMISCOE Conference (online).

04/2020: "Big Data, Migration Governance and the Production of Knowledge", German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) (online).

02/2020: "Producing Migration Knowledge. From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy", Pre-Conference Workshop "Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice", Munich.

11/2019: "Big Data, Migration Governance and the Production of Knowledge", Kick-off workshop of the Research Group "The Production of Knowledge on Migration", IMIS, University of Osnabrueck.

10/2019: "The Crisis of European Migration Governance and the Promises of Big Data", Conference "Digital Fortress Europe: Exploring Boundaries between Media, Migration and Technology", Brussels.

09/2019: "Counting Insecurities. Data and the Governability of Migration", Conference "Data Power: global in/securities", University of Bremen.

12/2018: "The Contested Relationship between Migration and Development. From Brain Drain to Triple Win to Fighting Root Causes of Forced Migration", Conference "Migration Governance in Africa. Management or Control? Weingartener Afrikagespräche 2018, Akademie Weingarten.

11/2018: "Producing Migration Knowledge. From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy", Workshop "A Cultural Technique? (Big) Data and the Making of Migration, University of Osnabrueck.

06/2018: "The Migration&Development Apparatus. Doing Diaspora in Contradictory Connections", „African Connections“ Conference of the African Studies Association Germany, University of Leipzig.

03/2017: "Familiarity created by a common past? Postcolonial discourses on migration and development. The case of Cameroon and Germany", Conference on social memory, remembrance and forgetting, University of Augsburg.

01/2017: "Apparatus as a research perspective", Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrueck.

11/2014: "The Ambivalence of Migration & Development: Agency or Instrumentalisation?", Mid-Term Conference of the Research Network 35 "Sociology of Migration" of the European Sociological Association, Frankfurt am Main.

09/2014: "Migrants as Agents of Change? The Discourse on Migration and Development", fifth International Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, ELTE University, Budapest.

06/2014: "Migrants‘ Responsibility to Develop. Agency, Discourse and Power", London Conference in Critical Thought, Goldsmiths College, London.

06/2014: "The Governmentalities of the Migration and Development Discourse", International Migration Institute Seminar Series, University of Oxford.

06/2013: "How to Govern in Africa? Genealogy, Archeology, Governmentality", Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin.

01/2012: "Migration – between Transnationalism, Citizenship and Exclusion", Lecture Series Diversity, Complexity, Intersectionality – Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Diversity, Free University Berlin.

05/2010: "Colonial Continuities in German Development Policies", German Development Institute, Bonn.

Teaching

"Digitalisation and Society", Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies/Institute of Social Sciences, University of Osnabrueck, winter semester 2022/2013, two hours per week.

"Migration and Development: Theories, Discourses, Actors", MA seminar, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrueck, summer semester 2019, two hours per week.

"Postcolonial Theory", MA seminar, Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin, winter semester 2012/2013, two hours per week.

"Migration: Transnationalism, Citizenship and Exclusion", MA seminar, Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin, summer semester 2012, two hours per week.

"Global Migration Management and the European Border Regime", MA workshop, Summer School of the German Turkish Masters Programme in Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, 18.9.2013.

"Postcolonial Perspectives in Theory and Practice", MA seminar, Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin, winter semester 2011/2012, two hours per week.

"Gender and Development", PhD workshop, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, 30.11.-1.12.2011.

"Discourse Theory and Analysis in various policy areas", MA seminar, co-taught with Prof. Dr. Brigitte Kerchner, Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin, summer semester 2011, two hours per week.

"Class, Race, Gender – Feminisms and the Intersectionality of Power Relations", BA seminar, co-taught with Dipl.-Pol. Inga Nüthen, Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin, winter semester 2007/2008, two hours per week.

"Liberalism – An Introduction into the History of Political Ideas", BA seminar, co-taught with Prof. Dr. Brigitte Kerchner, Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin, winter semester 2007/2008, two hours per week.