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Löhr, Isabella

Isabella
Löhr

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A historian of global and international history, Isabella Löhr’s research interests focus on European history in global contexts, including Western and Eastern European perspectives. In her research she tackles the history of (forced) migration and mobilities with an emphasis on exile, academic mobility and its intersections with modern humanitarianism. She is also an expert on the history of knowledge and knowledge production at the crossroad of migration research, politics and society.
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1170
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7945-5259
LinkedIN https://de.linkedin.com/in/isabella-l%C3%B6hr-b3ba33228
Twitter https://twitter.com/@IsabellaLoehr
Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabella-Loehr

Expertise

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

Roles

  • FU Berlin

    University, Berlin, Germany
    Full Professor

  • Freie Universität Berlin

    Other, Berlin, Germany
    Professor

  • Leibniz-Centre for Contemporary History

    Other, Potsdam, Germany
    Head

Research

Beyond the present, the nation, and Europe: Three different uses of history in reflexive migration studies

Authors Christiane Reinecke, Isabella Löhr
Year 2024
Journal Name Migration Studies
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1 Journal Article

“Refugees” and Others: The Production of Flight-related Figures Since the 1970s

Principal investigator Isabella Löhr (Principal Investigator), Jochen Oltmer (Principal Investigator)
Description
The 1970s witnessed an intensification of social debates about flight and asylum in German-speaking Europe, and these contestations remain acute to this day. The increasing significance of flight and asylum led to an expansion in the social production of flight-related figures, who are at the center of this project. The creation and usage of such figures communicates ideas about the (il)legitimacy of (potential) migrations as well as the ’utility,’ ‘danger,’ or (non-)affiliation of those who are on the move. The older figure of the ‘refugee’ – a figure that tends to have positive connotations – was encumbered with new and mostly negative meanings, and thereby made to appear different. Various figures emerged from these negotiations, such as ‘asylum seekers,’ ‘unaccompanied minors,’ ‘boat refugees,’ 'tolerated persons', 'refugees', 'vulnerable refugee women', 'economic migrants' or 'illegal migrants'. This project assumes that historical figures and categories are constructed and they become relevant for the perception and classification of people on the move, as well as for the ways in which society deals with them. As such, the flight-related figures produce a specific knowledge about migration that is closely linked to social processes of closure or opening and to competing interpretative sovereignties. The figures thus provide information about migration regimes that vary in historical and spatial terms, and in which migration has been negotiated in particular ways from the 1970s to the present day.
Year 2024
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2 Project

Coping with a post-war world: Protestant student internationalism and humanitarian work in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1920s

Authors Isabella Löhr
Year 2023
Journal Name Social History
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3 Journal Article

The moral economies of "research in exile"

Authors Isabella Löhr
Year 2022
Book Title Academics in Exile
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4 Book Chapter

Being international in times of war: Arthur Sweetser and the shifting of the League of Nations to the United Nations

Authors Madeleine Herren, Isabella Löhr
Year 2018
Journal Name European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire
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5 Journal Article

3.1.1 Geschichte staatlich-rechtlicher und politischer Einflussnahmen auf das Lesen

Authors Isabella Löhr
Year 2015
Book Title Lesen
6 Book Chapter

Solidarity and the Academic Community: The Support Networks for Refugee Scholars in the 1930s

Authors Isabella Löhr
Year 2014
Journal Name Journal of Modern European History
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7 Journal Article

„Governing the Commons“: Die global commons und das Erbe der Menschheit im 20. Jahrhundert

Authors Andrea Rehling, Isabella Löhr
Year 2014
Book Title Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert
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8 Book Chapter

Wem gehört die Kultur? Die UNESCO zwischen geistigem Eigentum, Folklore und kulturellem Erbe in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren

Authors Isabella Löhr
Year 2014
Book Title Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert
9 Book Chapter

Le droit d'auteur et la Première Guerre mondiale : un exemple de coopération transnationale européenne

Authors Isabella Löhr
Year 2013
Journal Name Le Mouvement Social
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10 Journal Article

The Nation State and Beyond

Year 2013
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11 Book

»Zum Schutze der Geistesschöpfungen auf der ganzen Welt« Die Geschichte der internationalen Verrechtlichung des Autorenschutzes 1850–1952

Authors Isabella Löhr
Year 2009
Journal Name Zeitschrift für geistiges Eigentum
12 Journal Article

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