Katrin Menke has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Char of Sociology – Transnationalization, Migration and Work since August 2022. Her research, writing and teaching focuses on the welfare state in transition (especially labour market, asylum and migration policies and gender equality policies), intersectional inequalities in the context of gender and race, and qualitative social research. She is currently working on the legal and normative inclusion and exclusion in the course of the labour market participation of refugee women and their everyday practices.
In the summer semester 2024, Katrin Menke was Interim Professor of Social Policy at the Institute for Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Information on her teaching activities there can be found here.
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Postdoctoral researcher | Sociology / Transnationalization, Migration and Work
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Participation of refugee women in the German labour market. Biographical case studies from an intersectional perspective.
For her habilitation project, Katrin Menke is researching the social positioning of women from an intersectional perspective who have fled to Germany against the backdrop of the current welfare state. The project explores the experiences local labour market actors face in various municipalities, on the one hand, and the women themselves, on the other hand by focusing the legal and normative inclusions and exclusions in the process of a labour market participation. To answer the research question, she is interested firstly in powerful narratives in the field of local employment services, secondly in the interplay of welfare state policies - such as labour market, asylum and gender equality policies - and thirdly in the self-concepts and everyday practices of women after flight.
Within the framework of a reconstructive research design, she conducted qualitative interviews both with women in the context of flight_migration and with local labour market actors in different municipalities in East and West Germany. Biographically oriented interviews with mainly refugee Muslim women serve to ascertain the subjective orientations and practices of the women, while expert interviews with local labour market actors capture the perspective of institutions and professional actors in the field. The local actors include employees of job centres and foreigners authorities, municipal integration commissioners, labour market institutions and civil society actors such as welfare organisations and volunteers. The evaluation is carried out according to the grounded theory method, which is supplemented with intersectional analysis perspectives.
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