Dr. Laura Stielike is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at Osnabrück University, associated member of the Collaborative Research Centre “Production of Migration” and affiliated with the Centre for Social Theory at Ghent University. Her current work explores the digital transformations, moral economies and reflexive potentials of migration-related knowledge production. For her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin, she investigated the ‘migration&development dispositif’ with a focus on Cameroonian migration to Germany in a postcolonial perspective. Laura’s fields of interest include critical, reflexive and digital migration studies, sociology of knowledge, (feminist) STS, discourse analysis, intersectionality, post/decolonial perspectives, (post)development studies and critical data studies. Her (co-authored) publications include “Practicing Double Reflexivity. Producing Knowledge on the Production of Knowledge on Migration” (2025); “Reflexivity as Critique? A Conversation on the Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies” (2025); The Moral Economies of Reflexive Migration Studies” (2024), “Producing Migration Knowledge: From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy?” (2022) and “Migration Multiple? Big Data, Knowledge Practices and the Governability of Migration” (2022).
Laura is co-editor of the Journal of Migration Studies (ZMF), the Inventory of Migration Terms (migrationsbegriffe.de) and the Special Issue “Rethinking the production of knowledge on migration: a moral economies approach” (JEMS, 2025). She has taught courses on digital migration studies, migration and development, digitalisation, intersectionality, postcolonial studies and discourse analysis. Laura is member of kritnet, the IMISCOE Standing Committee “Reflexivities in Migration Studies” and of the EU COST Action “Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)”.
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osanbrueck
University, Osnabrueck, Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher
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The Moral Economies of Reflexive Migration Studies
| Authors | Laura Stielike, Philipp Schäfer, Maurice Stierl, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
Rethinking the production of knowledge on migration: a moral economies approach
| Authors | Laura Stielike, Isabella Löhr, Christiane Reinecke, ... |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Reflexivity as Critique? A Conversation on the Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies
| Authors | Maurice Stierl, Laura Stielike, Philipp Schäfer, ... |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung | Journal of Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |