Lea Müller-Funk is currently a Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, where her research focuses on migration aspirations and drivers in (forced) migration, migration and refugee governance, and diaspora politics with a geographical focus on the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She earned a joint PhD in Comparative Politics and Arabic Studies (summa cum laude) from the Centre des Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris and the Department for Near Eastern Studies at Vienna University in 2016. Methodologically, she applies different approaches including in-depth and life history interviews, survey research, mixed methods, content analysis, and online ethnography.
Before her PhD, she was a trainee at the Department of the European Council and the Council of the European Union at the Austrian Foreign Ministry (2010-2011). She attended Vienna University (BA in Political Science, 2009; Magister in Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2010), the Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales in Paris (2007/2008), and Sciences Po Paris (MA in Comparative Politics / Middle East and Muslim World, 2010). Lea has held research affiliations to the Institut français du Proche-Orient Beirut (2018), the Migration Reseach Center at Koç University (2018), Nuffield College (2017), the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (2012) and the American University Beirut (2009).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 286 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9934-0491 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/lea-m%C3%BCller-funk-96107b20/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/LeaMullerFunk |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lea_Mueller-Funk |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Either/Mixed
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Research Institute, Hamburg, Germany
Research Fellow
Research
Violence, life aspirations and displacement trajectories in civil war
| Authors | Lea Müller‐Funk |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 |
Daring to aspire: theorising aspirations in contexts of displacement and highly constrained mobility
| Authors | Lea Müller-Funk, Ayşen Üstübici, Milena Belloni |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Two centuries of flows between ‘here’ and ‘there’: political remittances and their transformative potential
| Authors | Félix Krawatzek, Lea Müller-Funk |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Fluid identities, diaspora youth activists and the (Post-)Arab Spring: how narratives of belonging can change over time
| Authors | Lea Müller-Funk |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Diaspora Mobilizations in the Egyptian (Post)Revolutionary Process: Comparing Transnational Political Participation in Paris and Vienna
| Authors | Lea Müller-Funk |
| Year | 2018 |
| Book Title | Diasporic Social Mobilization and Political Participation during the Arab Uprisings | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Managing Distance: Examining Egyptian Emigration and Diaspora Policies
| Authors | Lea Müller-Funk |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Égypte/Monde arabe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization
| Authors | Lea Müller-Funk, Katharina Natter |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Mediterranean Politics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Egyptian Diaspora Activism during the Arab Uprisings
| Authors | Lea Müller-Funk |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnational Politics, Women & the Egyptian Revolution: Examples from Paris
| Authors | Lea Müller-Funk |
| Journal Name | Mashriq & Mahjar Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies |
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