Dr. Benjamin Etzold is a social geographer and migration scholar with more than 15 years of experience in studying people’s vulnerability and livelihoods as well as trajectories of migration and patterns of displacement. He works at the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC), a peace and conflict studies think tank. He led the EU-funded H2020 project TRAFIG (Transnational Figurations of Displacement, 2019-2022), which investigated the translocal dimensions of protracted displacement,...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • BICC (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies)

    Research Institute, Bonn, Germany
    senior researcher

  • Internationales Konversionszentrum Bonn GmbH

    Other, Bonn, Germany

  • Universität Innsbruck

    Other, Innsbruck, Austria
    Guest Professor

  • Freie Universität Berlin

    Other, Berlin, Germany
    Vertretungsprofessur / interim professorship

  • Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

    Other, Bonn, Germany

Research

Enforced transnationalism

Authors Simone Christ, Benjamin Etzold
Year 2024
Book Title Family Reunification in Europe
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1 Book Chapter

A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility

Authors Robert Oakes, Kees Van der Geest, Benjamin Schraven, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name International Migration
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3 Journal Article

Unsettling protracted displacement: connectivity and mobility beyond ‘Limbo’

Authors Benjamin Etzold, Anne-Meike Fechter
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
7 Journal Article

Understanding the dynamics of protracted displacement

Authors Albert Kraler, Benjamin Etzold, Nuno Ferreira
Year 2021
Journal Name Forced Migration Review
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8 Journal Article

Governing protracted displacement: An analysis across global, regional and domestic contexts

Authors Nuno Ferreira, Carolien Jacobs, Pamela Kea, ...
Year 2020
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9 Working Paper

Transnational Figurations of Displacement

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Year 2019
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10 Project

Urban Food Security and Health Status of the Poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Authors Wolfgang-Peter Zingel, Markus Keck, Benjamin Etzold, ...
Year 2011
Book Title Health in Megacities and Urban Areas
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21 Book Chapter

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