Nina is sociologist and research fellow at ICS since November 2020. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the Technical University of Berlin in February 2018 with a thesis entitled “Democracy Under Construction: The Micro-politics of Ordering Transnational Citizen Engagement”. She expanded her expertise she developed throughout her PhD-thesis and developed her current main research theme since 2016 when she joined the ERC-funded project EXCHANGE (first based at CES Coimbra, later at CECS/University...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3668
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2195-6955
Twitter https://twitter.com/@nina_amelung

Expertise

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Roles

  • Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais

    Other, Lisboa, Portugal
    Research Fellow

  • RWTH Aachen University

    University, Aachen, Germany
    Visiting lecturer

  • University of Minho

    University, Braga, Portugal
    Postdoc

  • University of Minho

    University, Braga, Portugal
    Research Associate in ERC project “Exchange - Forensic Geneticists and the Transnational Exchange of DNA data in the European Union: Engaging Science with Social Control, Citizenship and Democracy”

  • University of Coimbra

    University, Coimbra, Portugal
    Research Associate in ERC project "Exchange - Forensic Geneticists and the Transnational Exchange of DNA data in the European Union: Engaging Science with Social Control, Citizenship and Democracy”

Research

Reinventing the politics of knowledge production in migration studies: introduction to the special issue

Authors Nina Amelung, Stephan Scheel, Rogier van Reekum
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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1 Journal Article

‘Crisis’, control and circulation: Biometric surveillance in the policing of the ‘crimmigrant other’

Authors Matthias Wienroth, Nina Amelung
Year 2023
Journal Name International Journal of Police Science & Management
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2 Journal Article

Border control technologies: introduction

Authors Nina Amelung, Vasilis Galis
Year 2023
Journal Name Science as Culture
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3 Journal Article

Governing expectations of forensic innovations in society: the case of FDP in Germany

Authors Nina Amelung, Helena Machado
Year 2021
Journal Name New Genetics and Society
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4 Journal Article

Modes of Bio-Bordering

Authors Nina Amelung, Rafaela Granja, Helena Machado
Year 2021
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6 Book

Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship politics

Authors Nina Amelung, Cristiano Gianolla, Olga Solovova, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Citizenship Studies
7 Journal Article

Constructing Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm Professionals

Authors Rafaela Granja, Helena Machado, Nina Amelung
Year 2020
Journal Name British Journal of Criminology
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8 Journal Article

Affected for good or for evil: The formation of issue-publics that relate to the UK National DNA Database

Authors Nina Amelung, Helena Machado
Year 2019
Journal Name Public Understanding of Science
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9 Journal Article

'Bio-bordering' processes in the EU: de-bordering and re-bordering along transnational systems of biometric database technologies

Authors Nina Amelung, Helena Machado
Year 2019
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
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10 Journal Article

Innovating public participation methods: Technoscientization and reflexive engagement

Authors Jan-Peter Voß, Nina Amelung
Year 2016
Journal Name Social Studies of Science
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13 Journal Article

The emergence of citizen panels as a de facto standard

Authors Nina Amelung
Year 2012
Journal Name Quaderni
14 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Material Politics of Citizenship Connecting Migrations with Science and Technology Studies

Authors Nina Amelung, Joana Sousa Ribeiro, Cristiano Gianolla, ...
Year 2021
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1 Book

Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship politics

Authors Nina Amelung, Cristiano Gianolla, Olga Solovova, ...
Year 2021
Book Title Material Politics of Citizenship Connecting Migrations with Science and Technology Studies
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2 Book Chapter

Facing the elephant: STS inspired reflections on the political crisis associated with migrants

Authors Nina Amelung, Cristiano Gianolla, Joana Sousa Ribeiro, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name EASST Review
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3 Journal Article
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