PD Dr. Stefan Rother is a senior researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute for socio-cultural research, and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. In the winter term 2019/20 he acted as interim professor (Vertretungsprofessur) at the Chair of International Politics, University of Freiburg. His research focus is on international migration, global governance, social movements, regional integration and non-/post-Western theories of international relations. He was previously a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and researcher and editorial manager of the “International Quarterly for Asian Studies”. In 2019, he was co-convener of the International Fellow Group “Migration, Mobility and Forced Displacement” at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana.
In 2019, he completed his cumulative habilitation on „Multi-level Governance from below? Migrant Civil Society and the Democratisation of International Institutions”. Rother received his doctorate at the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg with the thesis “Diffusion in transnational political spaces: Political activism of Philippine labor migrants in Hong Kong". He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Southeast Asia as well as participant observation at global governance fora and civil society parallel and counter-events at the UN, ILO, ASEAN and WTO-level as well as European Forum on Migration and World Social Forum on Migration. Stefan Rother has published articles in Third World Quarterly, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Globalizations, European Journal of East Asian Studies, International Migration, Migration Studies, the German Journal for Political science (ZPol) and several edited volumes. He is a board member of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA) and speaker of the working group on migration in the German political science association (AK Migrationspolitik in der DVPW). His latest monograph is “Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants” (Lexington 2016, with Christl Kessler).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1583 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8520-3365 |
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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 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
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
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ABI at University of Freiburg
University, Freiburg, Germany
Senior Researcher and Lecturer
Research
Governing regional migration from the ‘bottom-up’: a nodal approach to the role of transnational activist networks in Asia
| Authors | Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Tokens or Stakeholders in Global Migration Governance? The Role of Affected Communities and Civil Society in the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees
| Authors | Stefan Rother, Elias Steinhilper |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Political remittances and the diffusion of a rights-based approach to migration governance: the case of the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA)
| Authors | Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Angry birds of passage – migrant rights networks and counter-hegemonic resistance to global migration discourses
| Authors | Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | GLOBALIZATIONS | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Global Forum on Migration and Development as a venue of state socialisation: a stepping stone for multi-level migration governance?
| Authors | Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 9 |
ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour: A space for civil society in migration governance at the regional level?
| Authors | Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Asia Pacific Viewpoint | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Indonesian migrant domestic workers in transnational political spaces: agency, gender roles and social class formation
| Authors | Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Migration and Democracy: Citizenship and Human Rights from a Multi‐level Perspective
| Authors | Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Alternative Regionalism from Below: Democratizing ASEAN's Migration Governance
| Authors | Stefan Rother, Nicola Piper |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | International Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Let's Argue about Migration: advancing a right(s) discourse via communicative opportunities
| Authors | Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Third World Quarterly |
Standing in the Shadow of Civil Society? The 4th Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Mexico
| Authors | Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Democratisation Through International Migration? Explorative Thoughts on a Novel Research Agenda
| Authors | Christl Kessler, Jürgen Rüland, Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of East Asian Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
The GFMD from Manila to Athens: One Step Forward, One Step Back?
| Authors | Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Asian and Pacific Migration Journal |
Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces
| Authors | Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Correction to: Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces
| Authors | Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
More than Remittances: Resisting the Dominant Discourse and Policy Prescriptions of the Global 'Migration-Development-Mantra'
| Authors | Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Journal für Entwicklungspolitik | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Challenging State Sovereignty in the Age of Migration
| Authors | Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother, Jürgen Rüland |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of East Asian Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Challenging State Sovereignty in the Age of Migration
| Authors | Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother, Jürgen Rüland |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of East Asian Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |