Helge Schwiertz is a postdoctoral research associate at the Chair of Sociology and Social Theory at Universität Hamburg and corresponding member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. His key research areas are social and political theory, theories of radical democracy, citizenship, and solidarity, social movements and urban protests, racism and migration. He leads the international research project "Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe »From Below«: Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies" and Transnational Networks" [ECSEuro] and is a co-editor of "movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies".
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5614-5362 |
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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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Transversal 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
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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Types of study
Geographies
Roles
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Universität Hamburg
University, Hamburg, Germany
Postdoc / Main PI -
Universität Hamburg
Other, Hamburg, Germany
Postdoc & PI -
Osnabrück University
University, Osnabrück, Germany
Researcher
Research
Foucauldian perspectives on migration and society: The epistemological-political grids of “people” and “population”
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Social Theory |
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration
| Authors | Ilker Ataç, Helge Schwiertz, Martin Bak Jørgensen, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Geopolitics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Political Subjectivation and the In/Visible Politics of Migrant Youth Organizing in Germany and the United States
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | International Political Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Countering the Asylum Paradox Through Strategic Humanitarianism: Evidence from Safe Passage Activism in Germany
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz, Elias Steinhilper |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Critical Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction: inclusive solidarity and citizenship along migratory routes in Europe and the Americas
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz, Helen Schwenken |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
Mobilizing for safe passages and escape aid: challenging the ‘asylum paradox’ between active and activist citizenship, humanitarianism and solidarity
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz, Helen Schwenken |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
Migration und radikale Demokratie : politische Selbstorganisierung von Jugendlichen in Deutschland und den USA
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz |
| Year | 2019 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transformations of the undocumented youth movement and radical egalitarian citizenship
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 13 |
“We Are Here to Stay” – Refugee Struggles in Germany Between Unity and Division
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz, Abimbola Odugbesan |
| Book Title | Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Private sponsorship in refugee admission: Standard in Canada, trend in Germany?
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz, Vanessa Pohlmann | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social theory and migration research in dialog
| Authors | Helge Schwiertz, Martin Bak Jørgensen |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Social Theory |