Margit Fauser is professor in Sociology / Transnationalization, Migration and Work at the Faculty of Social Science at Ruhr-University Bochum. She is co-director of the masters program of specialization “Management and Regulation of Labor, Economy and Organization” (MaRAWO) and internationalization officer for the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is a member of the steering committee of the Sylff-Mikrokolleg ‘Forced Migration’ at RUB and of the Board of Directors of the IFHV – Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict. She was a visiting scholar at the CIDOB in Barcelona and the Instituto Ortega y Gasset in Madrid (2006), Augustana College in the US (2015) and at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Durham University (2023), and has taught students in Saint Petersburg, Istanbul, and Madrid, in addition to several German universities. She has (co-)written and (co-)edited eleven books, anthologies and special issues, including the introductory monograph “Transnational Migration” (Polity Press, 2013) that has been translated into several languages and the “International Handbook of Transnational Studies” (Routledge, 2024). Her articles have appeared in numerous prestigious international peer-reviewed journals such Ethnic and Racial Studies, Population, Space and Place, Journal of Borderlands Studies and others.
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