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, as scientific coordinator. https://trafig.eu
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 678 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1109-7640 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@Ben_Etzold |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Etzold |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Labour markets and employment
- Poverty and inequality
- Climate change and environmental conditions
- Conflict, war and violence
- Migration governance and infrastructure
- Personal resources and migration experience
- Migrant communities and networks
- Transnational ties
- Natural disasters and environmental shocks
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
Roles
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BICC (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies)
Research Institute, Bonn, Germany
senior researcher -
Internationales Konversionszentrum Bonn GmbH
Other, Bonn, Germany
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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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Intersecting (im)mobilities in the context of drought, hunger and conflict – Reflections inspired by research in Kenya
| Authors | Benjamin Etzold, Benjamin Etzold, Marie Müller‐Koné |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
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 |
Ambivalent Entanglements: Syrian Refugees’ Network Relations and (Im)mobilities in Protracted Displacement
| Authors | Sarah A. Tobin, Benjamin Etzold, Fawwaz Momani, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond
| Authors | Simone Christ, Benjamin Etzold |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Afghans’ narrowing mobility options in Pakistan and the right to transnational living: a figurational perspective
| Authors | Katja Mielke, Benjamin Etzold |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Unsettling protracted displacement: connectivity and mobility beyond ‘Limbo’
| Authors | Benjamin Etzold, Anne-Meike Fechter |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Understanding the dynamics of protracted displacement
| Authors | Albert Kraler, Benjamin Etzold, Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Forced Migration Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Governing protracted displacement: An analysis across global, regional and domestic contexts
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Carolien Jacobs, Pamela Kea, ... |
| Year | 2020 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnational Figurations of Displacement
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| Year | 2019 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mobility, Space and Livelihood Trajectories: New Perspectives on Migration, Translocality and Place-Making for Livelihood Studies
| Authors | Benjamin Etzold |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Livelihoods and Development | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Human mobility in response to rainfall variability: opportunities for migration as a successful adaptation strategy in eight case studies
| Authors | Tamer Afifi, Andrea Milan, Benjamin Etzold, ... |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Development | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh
| Authors | Benjamin Etzold, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, Selim Reza Hassan, ... |
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Environmental Migration and Social Inequality | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Agency and the Making ofTransient Urban Spaces: Examples ofMigrants in the Cityin the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh
| Authors | Tabea Bork‐Hüffer, Frauke Kraas, Bettina Gransow, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
| Citations (WoS) | 9 |
Migration, Informal Labour and (Trans) Local Productions of Urban Space – The Case of Dhaka's Street Food Vendors
| Authors | Benjamin Etzold |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
| Citations (WoS) | 8 |
Food Security in Dhaka: Between Global Risks and Local Vulnerabilities
| Authors | Markus Keck, Benjamin Etzold, Hans-Georg Bohle, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Book Title | Megacities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Clouds gather in the sky, but no rain falls. Vulnerability to rainfall variability and food insecurity in Northern Bangladesh and its effects on migration
| Authors | Benjamin Etzold, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, Selim Reza Hassan, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT |
Resilience refused. Wasted potentials for improving food security in Dhaka
| Authors | Markus Keck, Benjamin Etzold |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | ERDKUNDE |
Risk and resilience in Asian megacities
| Authors | Markus Keck, Benjamin Etzold |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | ERDKUNDE |
Doing institutions. A dialectic reading of institutions and social practices and its relevance for development geography
| Authors | Benjamin Etzold, Sebastian Jülich, Markus Keck, ... |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | ERDKUNDE |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
„We are making it on ourselves“ – Infrastrukturen der (Im)Mobilität in Bosnien und Herzegowina
| Authors | Philipp Themann, Benjamin Etzold |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Geographica Helvetica | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Journeys of Violence: Trajectories of (Im-)Mobility and Migrants’ Encounters with Violence in European Border Spaces
| Authors | Rahel Lorenz, Benjamin Etzold |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Population Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editorial Relational denken, Ungleichheiten reflektieren – Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis in der deutschsprachigen Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung
| Authors | V. Deffner, C. Haferburg, P. Sakdapolrak, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Geographica Helvetica |
Raumaneignungen, Regeln und Profite in Dhakas Feld des Straßenhandels – Sozialgeographische Erklärungsversuche auf Grundlage von Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis
| Authors | B. Etzold |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Geographica Helvetica | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Moving Beyond the Focus on Environmental Migration Towards Recognizing the Normality of Translocal Lives: Insights from Bangladesh
| Authors | Bishawjit Mallick, Benjamin Etzold |
| Book Title | Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility with Mobile Phone Data—A Case Study of (Syrian) Refugees in Turkey
| Authors | Harald Sterly, Benjamin Etzold, Lars Wirkus, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |