Dr. Ursula Probst (she/her) is a social and cultural anthropologist whose work critically examines the gendered, sexualised and racialised dimensions of labour migration and migrant health care in Europe, with a particular focus on European East-West inequalities. Drawing on queerfeminist materialist and postcolonial approaches, her research centres the body and embodied experiences as a vantage point for analysing the material and affective effects of structural inequalities in contemporary Europe.
She has conducted extensive ethnographic research with migrant sex workers in Berlin, which resulted in multiple publications, including the monograph Prekäre Freizügigkeiten [Precarious Freedoms] (2023, open access, in German). Since 2022, she has been examining the intersections of gender, migration, and labor exploitation in the construction and transportation industries. She has also researched the long-term sociopolitical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic among mobile essential workers in Germany.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 6581 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-1949 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/ursula-probst-18b2ba3a4/ | |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ursula-Probst |
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
Migration governance
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
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Disciplines
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Geographies
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Freie Universität Berlin
University, Berlin, Germany
Research Associate
Research
Health insurance for the good European citizen? Migrant sex workers' quests for health insurance and the moral economy of health care
| Authors | Ursula Probst |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Multifaceted Living Worlds, Complex Vulnerabilities - on the Living and Working Conditions of the Women in Street-Based Sex Work in Berlin's Kurfurstenkiez
| Authors | Ursula Probst |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SEXUALFORSCHUNG |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Health insurance for the good European citizen? Migrant sex workers' quests for health insurance and the moral economy of health care
| Authors | Ursula Probst |
| Year | 2023 |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |