Wissenschaftliche Ausbildung

Seit 10/2021: Promotionsstudentin im Fach der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie bei Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze, Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin

08/2018 - 12/2018: Studium der Geschlechterstudien am El Colegio de México (Mexiko) im Rahmen des Direktaustauschprogramms der Freien Universität

10/2017 - 09/2021: Studium der Interdisziplinären Lateinamerikastudien an der Freien Universität Berlin (Master of Arts)

08/2014 - 07/2015: Studium der Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie an der Universidad de Cuyo Mendoza (Argentinien) im Rahmen des Direktaustauschprogramms der Universität Leipzig

10/2012 - 09/2017: Studium der Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Leipzig (Bachelor of Arts)

10/2012 - 09/2017: Studium der Sozialwissenschaften und Philosophie mit Kernfach
Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Leipzig (Bachelor of Arts)

Berufliche Erfahrung

Seit 10/2021: Freie Mitarbeiterin im DFG-Projekt „Forced Migration and Organized Violence: A Comparitive Study in Europe and the Americas (ForMOVE)“ (Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze, Freie Universität Berlin; Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

04/2021 - 09/2021: Studentische Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie am Lateinamerika-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin (Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze)

08/2019 - 09/2021: Studentische Hilfskraft im DFG-Projekt „Forced Migration and Organized Violence: A Comparitive Study in Europe and the Americas (ForMOVE)“ (Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze, Freie Universität Berlin; Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

03/2018 - 08/2019: Studentische Mitarbeiterin im Büro der Zentralen Frauenbeauftragten der Freien Universität Berlin

07/2016 - 08/2017: Studentische Hilfskraft im Teilprojekt „Maras als Produzenten translokaler Gewalträume in den Amerikas und Europa“ (Prof. Dr. Heidrun Zinecker, Universität Leipzig) des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1199 „Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition“

Forschungsinteressen

• Migrations- und Grenzforschung
• Gender Studies, feministische Theorie und Epistemologie
• Regionale Schwerpunkte: Mexiko, Zentralamerika, USA

Promotionsvorhaben

Temporalities of Transit. Perspectives of Central American Families on the Temporal Discrepancies in Transit through Mexico (Working Title)

Abstract:

My doctoral project focuses on the situations of Central American migrants waiting at Mexico’s northern and southern border and examines them ethnographically in relation to other temporalities associated with migration efforts. While migration research has long focused on spatial change and the production of specific spaces, territories, and borders, temporal dimensions of migration have only recently begun to gain attention. In my doctoral project, I aim to demonstrate that the fractions that emerge from the attempts of temporal control through migratory policies and the anticipated temporal course of the migrant’s projects open up an important field of research. Barber and Lem (2018) conceptualize these fractions as “temporal discrepancies” between irregularized migrants and migration regimes resulting from global capitalist and post-colonial power discrepancies.

Drawing on this concept, I will first investigate the aspirations and anticipations of Central American migrants who migrate to the United States with respect to the course of their migration processes. Secondly, I will focus on the conflicting experiences between their migration projects and the attempts of control by the U.S.-Mexican migration regime. These experiences comprise involuntary pauses during transit in Mexico, but also moments of tension and unexpected hasting. Thereby, I am also interested in analyzing the reactions of migrants to these discrepant experiences. Furthermore, I start from the hypothesis that there is another set of frictions interconnected with those that exist between the migratory regime and the migrants’ future projects: the discrepancies between family and gender time regimes and the temporalities of migration. For this reason, I am particularly interested in researching the perspectives of those migrants who began their migration project as a family. The data, on which my doctoral project is based, will be obtained during two field research stays in Mexico.