Tabea Scharrer is a Researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen, Germany). She is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany). She does research in Migration Studies, Urban Anthropology, and Social Anthropology. Her current projects deal with return migration of Somali forced migrants from Europe to East Africa as well as with Somalian migrants in Germany.

Expertise

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

Roles

  • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

    Research Institute, Halle, Germany
    Affiliate

  • University of Bayreuth

    University, Bayreuth, Germany
    Affiliate

  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

    Research Institute, Göttingen, Germany
    Researcher

Research

Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa

Authors Tabea Scharrer
Year 2023
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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1 Journal Article

Beyond ‘race’?: a rejoinder

Authors Tabea Scharrer, Sawitri Saharso
Year 2023
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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2 Journal Article

Balancing inclusion and exclusion among Somali migrants in Germany

Authors Markus Virgil Hoehne, Tabea Scharrer
Year 2023
Journal Name International Migration
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3 Journal Article

Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium

Authors Tabea Scharrer, Birgit Glorius, J. Olaf Kleist, ...
Year 2023
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4 Book

I.1.6 Ethnologie

Authors Annika Lems, Tabea Scharrer
Year 2023
Book Title Handbook Forced Migration and Refugee Research
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5 Book Chapter

Spatial and social im/mobility in forced migration: revisiting class

Authors Christian Hunkler, Tabea Scharrer, Magdalena Suerbaum, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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6 Journal Article

Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya

Authors Tabea Scharrer, Magdalena Suerbaum
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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7 Journal Article

Beyond race?

Authors Sawitri Saharso, Tabea Scharrer
Year 2022
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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8 Journal Article

Sarah Hillewaert, Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya

Authors Tabea Scharrer
Year 2021
Journal Name Islamic Africa
9 Journal Article

“It Is Better to Do Business in Africa than in Europe” – Socio-Economic Positionings among Business-Minded European Somalis Moving to Kenya

Authors Tabea Scharrer
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
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10 Journal Article

‘Ethnic Neighborhoods’ and/or Cosmopolitanism? The Art of Living Together

Authors Tabea Scharrer
Year 2019
Book Title Refugees and Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU
11 Book Chapter

“Ambiguous citizens”: Kenyan Somalis and the question of belonging

Authors Tabea Scharrer
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Eastern African Studies
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12 Journal Article

Anthropology and Class in Africa: Challenges of the Past and Present

Authors David O’Kane, Tabea Scharrer
Year 2018
Book Title Middle Classes in Africa
13 Book Chapter

Introduction: Africa’s Middle Classes in Critical Perspective

Authors Tabea Scharrer, David O’Kane, Lena Kroeker
Year 2018
Book Title Middle Classes in Africa
14 Book Chapter

Middle Classes in Africa. Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges

Authors Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, Tabea Scharrer
Year 2018
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15 Book

Narrative islamischer Konversion

Authors Tabea Scharrer
Year 2013
17 Book

Konversion in Ostafrika im Spannungsfeld zwischen islamischer und christlicher Mission

Authors Tabea Scharrer
Year 2007
Journal Name Historische Anthropologie
18 Journal Article

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