1. Biographical summary
Born 1953 in Füchtorf/Northrhine-Westfalia; secondary school (Abitur) at Staatliches Gymnasium Waren-dorf 1972; vocational training and work as tool machinery technician until 1980.
Studies and degree in Social Science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (1980-1985); Ph.D. (1989) and habilita-tion (1995) at University Erlangen-Nürnberg; Research Fellow 1985-1990; postdoc- and habilita-tion-fellowship and Visiting Professor 1990-1994 in Mexico; Pierre-Naville-Chair of Sociology Universidad...
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1629 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0972-5177 |
| Researcher ID | ludger.pries@rub.de |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Economic and business conditions
- Labour markets and employment
- Conflict, war and violence
- International relations and geopolitical transformations
- Political situation, repression and regime transitions
- Migration governance and infrastructure
- Migrant communities and networks
- Transnational ties
- Family size and structure
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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
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
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
University, Bochum, Germany
Chair Sociology / Organization, Migration, Participation -
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Other, Bochum, Germany
Research
The Nexus of Forced Migration and Organized Violence
| Authors | Ximena Alba Villalever, Ludger Pries, Stephanie Schütze |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Similar History and Different Strategies of ‘Arrival’: Female Yazidi Survivors of the Islamic State in Germany
| Authors | Mais Masadeh, Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migration
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Soziologie - Sociology in the German-Speaking World |
Thomas Faist, The Transnationalized Social Question. Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019, 400 S., gb., 87,72 €
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Soziologische Revue |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sewing transnational textures of labour regulation: towards an integrative perspective
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Integration – Soziologische Theorien und Gegenstandsbereiche
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Handbuch Integration |
Traces and Sediments of Organized Violence in Biographical Narratives of Migrants in Mexico
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Christian Schramm, Melanie Wieschalla |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Global processes of flight and migration = Globale Flucht- und Migrationsprozesse |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnationalisierung von Arbeit – (Inter-)Nationalisierung von Erwerbsregulierung?
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Transnationalisierung der Arbeit und der Arbeitsbeziehungen |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“We will Manage It” – Did Chancellor Merkel's Dictum Increase or Even Cause the Refugee Movement in 2015?
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The momentum of transnational social spaces in Mexico-US-migration
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Comparing Contexts, Institutions and Periods of the Émigrés’ Arrival and Possible Return
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Pablo Yankelevich |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | European and Latin American Social Scientists as Refugees, Émigrés and Return‐Migrants |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Exile Dynamics and Impacts of European Social Scientists Since the 1930s: Transnational Lives and Travelling Theories at El Colegio de México and the New School for Social Research in New York
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | European and Latin American Social Scientists as Refugees, Émigrés and Return‐Migrants |
Networks of Refugee and Asylum Related Organizations in the Mediterranean Area of the European Union
| Authors | Juliana Witkowski, Ludger Pries, Anna Mratschkowski |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction: Civil Society and Volunteering in the So-Called Refugee Crisis of 2015—Ambiguities and Structural Tensions
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Interplay of Organized Violence and Forced Migration: A Transnational Perspective
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | New Migration Patterns in the Americas |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe
| Year | 2019 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
European and Latin American Social Scientists as Refugees, Émigrés and Return‐Migrants
| Year | 2019 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Muster und Triebkräfte grenzüberschreitender Erwerbsmobilität – das Beispiel der Arbeitsmigration zwischen Mexiko und den USA
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2018 |
| Book Title | Transnationalisierung der Arbeit |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Kooperationen in der Sozialwirtschaft
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Paul-Fiete Kramer |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Arbeit |
Refugees, Civil Society and the State
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social Change and Business Development Through Transnational Companies in Turkey
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Serife Erol |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Regional Studies on Economic Growth, Financial Economics and Management |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Strukturbrüche der Arbeitsgesellschaft
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Fortsetzung folgt |
Circular Migration as (New) Strategy in Migration Policy? Lessons from Historical and Sociological Migration Research
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Return Migration and Regional Development in Europe |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Solution for Transnational Labour Regulation?
| Authors | Axel Hauser-Ditz, Markus Hertwig, Ludger Pries, ... |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Discriminação e Racismo na União Europeia: diagnóstico de uma ameaça negligenciada e da investigação científica correspondente
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Natalia Bekassow |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Sociologias |
Globalisierung nur der Unternehmen oder auch der Erwerbsregulierung?
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2015 |
| Book Title | Wissenschaft und Arbeitswelt - eine Kooperation im Wandel |
BMW – Mastering the Crises with “New Efficiency?”
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Martin Seeliger |
| Year | 2014 |
| Book Title | Research in Economic Anthropology |
International Framework Agreements: A thread in the web of transnational labour regulation
| Authors | Veronika Dehnen, Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Industrial Relations |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Shifting Boundaries of Belonging and New Migration Dynamics in Europe and China
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2013 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Collective employee representation in German companies
| Authors | Axel Hauser‐Ditz, Markus Hertwig, Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Employee Relations: The International Journal |
Internationale Migration und (räumliche) Integration – Zeit für neues Denken
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ambiguities of global and transnational collective identities
| Authors | LUDGER PRIES |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Verbetrieblichung und betrieblicher Konflikt
| Authors | Axel Hauser-Ditz, Markus Hertwig, Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Changing labour relations in China's automotive industry
| Authors | Robert Pauls, Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Stabilizing effects of European Works Councils: Examples from the automotive industry
| Authors | Markus Hertwig, Ludger Pries, Luitpold Rampeltshammer |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Industrial Relations |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnationalisierungsforschung – Ein Programm für das 21. Jahrhundert
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Soziale Welt |
TRANSNATIONALISATION AND THE CHALLENGE OF DIFFERENTIATED CONCEPTS OF SPACE
| Authors | LUDGER PRIES |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Cost competition or innovation competition? Lessons from the case of the BMW plant location in Leipzig, Germany
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Labour migration, social incorporation and transmigration in the New Europe. The case of Germany in a comparative perspective
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Markus Promberger: Das VW-Modell und seine Nachfolger. Pioniere einer neuartigen Beschäftigungspolitik
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Emerging production systems in the transnationalisation of German car manufacturers: adaptation, application or innovation?
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | New Technology, Work and Employment |
Transnationalisierung der sozialen Welt?
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2002 |
| Journal Name | Berliner Journal für Soziologie |
The Disruption of Social and Geographic Space
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2001 |
| Journal Name | International Sociology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Klaus J. Bade: Europa in Bewegung. Migration vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2001 |
| Journal Name | KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie |
Globalisierung und Wandel internationaler Unternehmen
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2000 |
| Journal Name | KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie |
Das Verhältnis von Ausbildung und Erwerb in vergleichender Perspektive: Sequenz, Übergangsphase oder Parallele?
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 1998 |
| Journal Name | Zeitschrift für Soziologie |
Syrian refugees arriving in Germany: choice of corridor and individual characteristics of forced migrants
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Berna Safak Zulfikar Savci |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Sociology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Toward a sociology of evolution in the Anthropocene–Shared intentionality and cooperation through understanding minds
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Sociology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Transnationalization of Labor Mobility: Development Trends and Selected Challenges Involved in Its Regulation
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Martina Maletzky |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Review of European Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
La migración transnacional y la perforación de los contenedores de Estados-nación
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2002 |
| Journal Name | Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim: Wir und die Anderen. Vom Blick der Deutschen auf Migranten und Minderheiten
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie |
Configurations of geographic and societal spaces: a sociological proposal between 'methodological nationalism' and the 'spaces of flows'
| Authors | LUDGER PRIES |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski und Gert G. Wagner (Hg.): Immigration, citizenship, and the welfare state in Germany and the United States (part A and part B)
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2000 |
| Journal Name | KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Scientists as Forced Migrants and Refugees: What Can We Learn from the 1930s and 2010s?
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | SOCIAL RESEARCH |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnationale Soziale Räume
| Authors | Ludger Pries |
| Year | 1996 |
| Journal Name | Zeitschrift für Soziologie |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Cross Border Migrant Organizations in Comparative Perspective
| Authors | Zeynep Sezgin, Ludger Pries |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Komplexe Migration – Differenzierte Integration. Lokale Dynamiken zwischen Rumänien/Bulgarien und dem Ruhrgebiet
| Authors | Christian Schramm, Ludger Pries |
| Year | 2024 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migration, Organizations and Transnational Ties
| Authors | Zeynep Sezgin, Ludger Pries |
| Book Title | Cross Border Migrant Organizations in Comparative Perspective |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Appendix
| Authors | Zeynep Sezgin, Ludger Pries |
| Book Title | Cross Border Migrant Organizations in Comparative Perspective |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Traces and Sediments of Organized Violence in Biographical Narratives in Mexico
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Christian Schramm, Melanie Wieschalla |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Global Processes of Flight and Migration. The Explanatory Power of Case Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Between Humanitarian Assistance and Externalizing of EU Borders: The EU-Turkey Deal and Refugee Related Organizations in Turkey
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Berna Safak Zülfikar Savci |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal on Migration and Human Security |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Cross-Border Migrant Organizations in Their Organizational and Institutional Environment: A Comparison of Countries and Cases
| Authors | Dirk Halm, Ludger Pries, Zeynep Sezgin |
| Book Title | Cross Border Migrant Organizations in Comparative Perspective |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Trajectories of Forced Migration: Central American Migrants on Their Way Toward the USA
| Authors | Ludger Pries, Oscar Calderón Morillón, Brandon Amir Estrada Ceron |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal on Migration and Human Security |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Polish and Turkish Migrant Organizations in Germany
| Authors | Patricia Pielage, Dirk Halm, Ludger Pries, ... |
| Book Title | Cross Border Migrant Organizations in Comparative Perspective |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |