I am a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Digital In/Justice Initiative at the University of Bern (Switzerland).
My dissertation, Venturing Beyond the Gig: A Migration Regime Perspective on Platform Labour (Freie Universität Berlin, 2024, summa cum laude), interrogated how migration policies and experiences shape the labour conditions and subjectivities of platform workers. More broadly, my work is situated at the intersection of feminist political economy, labour geography, and digital technologies. You can find my publications and email here.
My academic path began with a degree in International Relations at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and continued at the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK), where I was a full-scholarship recipient, and obtained a Masters degree in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. After working for several years with non-profit organisations in international development and migration, I returned to academia to undertake a PhD in Geography at Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany). My dissertation won the Feminist Economic Geography Best Paper Award (2022) and the Society for Socio-Economics PhD Researcher Award (2022).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2836 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7091-9640 |
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Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
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Qualitative research
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Research Associate
University, Berlin, Germany
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University of Bern
University, Bern, Switzerland
Postdoc
Research
Forging mobilities, becoming ideal workers? Temporary migration and the gig economy
| Authors | Barbara Orth |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Becoming “Platform Workers”: A Biographical Exploration of Temporary Visa and Worker Subjectivities in the Gig Economy
| Authors | Isabella Stingl, Barbara Orth |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin’s gig economy
| Authors | Barbara Orth |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space |
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