Franzisca Zanker is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) in Freiburg, Germany, where she heads the research cluster on “Patterns of (Forced) Migration.” Prior to that she worked at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies Institute in Hamburg and has a PhD in political science from the University of Tübingen. Her research interests include migration and refugee governance, peacebuilding and civil society. She is currently heading a research project on the political...
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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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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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
Roles
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Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Research Institute, Freiburg, Germany
Senior Researcher -
Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut
Other, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Senior research fellow -
German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Research Institute, Hamburg, Germany
Research fellow
Research
Review of ‘Palimpsest’ by Doris Salcedo
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker, Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies |
Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker, Judith Altrogge |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Security Dialogue |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The (in)formality of mobility in the ECOWAS region: The paradoxes of free movement
| Authors | Kwaku Arhin-Sam, Amanda Bisong, Leonie Jegen, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | South African Journal of International Affairs |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa
| Authors | Khangelani Moyo, Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa
| Authors | Khangelani Moyo, Kalyango Ronald Sebba, Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Managing or restricting movement? Diverging approaches of African and European migration governance
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
The Political Influence of Return: From Diaspora to Libyan Transit Returnees
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker, Judith Altrogge |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Moving Beyond Hybridity: the Multi-Scalar Adaptation of Community Policing in Liberia
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Power, peace, and space in Africa: Revisiting territorial power sharing
| Authors | F. Zanker, C. Simons, A. Mehler |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | African Affairs |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Legitimate Representation: Civil Society Actors in Peace Negotiations Revisited
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | International Negotiation |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Power-sharing in Africa's war zones: how important is the local level?
| Authors | Claudia Simons, Franzisca Zanker, Andreas Mehler, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | The Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Integration as Conflict Prevention: Possibilities and Limitations in the experience of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Security and Human Rights |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A typology of resistance: the ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Territory, Politics, Governance |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“When there is no migration, the whole region has a problem”: The Political Priorities of Migration Policies in West Africa
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker |
| Journal Name | AFRICAN HUMAN MOBILITY REVIEW |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Finding the Cases that Fit: Methodological Challenges in Peace Research
| Authors | Claudia Simons, Franzisca Zanker |
| Journal Name | SSRN Electronic Journal |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
African perspectives on migration: Re-centring Southern AfricaDeviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration. By Rose JajiI Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis. By Loren B. Landau and Tanya Pampalone(editors)Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa. By Francis Musoni
| Authors | Franzisca Zanker |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |