Verena Wisthaler is a senior researcher at EURAC Research, Italy. Previously she was a post-doc researcher at the University of Neuchâtel, within the SNSF project NCCR on the move – the migration-mobility nexus, and external lecturer at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Leicester (2016). During her PhD she was visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Corte (FR) and the University of Edinburgh (UK). Her research focusses on immigrant integration at the regional and local level. She has published in JEMS, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Politika etc. Her PhD has been awarded the 2017 ECPR Jean Blondel PhD Prize.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 463 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4210-269X |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@verena_wis |
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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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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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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EURAC Research
Research Institute, Bozen/, Afghanistan
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Eurac Research
Other, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Group Leader -
University of Neuchâtel
University, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Post Doc
Research
Migration research beyond the nation state
| Authors | Verena Wisthaler, Mireille Paquet |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | How to Do Migration Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The power of symbolic sanctuary: insights from Wales on the limitations and potential of a regional approach to sanctuary
| Authors | Catrin Wyn Edwards, Verena Wisthaler |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Migrants, New Citizens, Co-Citizens and Citizens by Adoption – Regionalist Parties’ Framing of Immigrants in the Basque Country, Corsica, South Tyrol, Scotland and Wales
| Authors | Verena Wisthaler |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Revising the Integration-Citizenship Nexus in Europe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
South Tyrol
| Authors | Verena Wisthaler, Josef Prackwieser, Marc Röggla |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Territorial Autonomies |
Making regional citizens? The political drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policies in Europe and North America
| Authors | Anita Manatschal, Verena Wisthaler, Christina Isabel Zuber |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Stress Test for the Policy-making Capability of Cross-border Spaces? Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino
| Authors | Alice Engl, Verena Wisthaler |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Borderlands Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Intergovernmental relations on immigrant integration in Italy. Insights from Piedmont and South Tyrol
| Authors | Tiziana Caponio, Gaia Testore, Verena Wisthaler |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Regional & Federal Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Friends or foes? Migrants and sub-state nationalists in Europe
| Authors | Sanjay Jeram, Arno van der Zwet, Verena Wisthaler |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 |
South Tyrol: the importance of boundaries for immigrant integration
| Authors | Verena Wisthaler |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
The Right to Education for Minorities: An Overview on Existing Recommendations from The Hague to Geneva
| Authors | Verena Wisthaler |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Identity Politics in the Educational System in South Tyrol: Balancing between Minority Protection and the Need to Manage Diversity
| Authors | Verena Wisthaler |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism |
An Indicator-Based Approach to Comparative Policy Analysis: Measuring Regional Governance of Migrant Integration
| Authors | Francesco Pasetti, Catherine Xhardez, Verena Wisthaler, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |