Das Netzwerk Migration erhält seit 2006/2007 eine Betriebskosten- finanzierung von der Europäischen Union.
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Dr. Susanne Schwalgin
Susanne Schwalgin, Dr. phil. of ethnology studied ethnology, folklore and the history of art at the universities in Bonn, Cologne and Thessaloniki. She has been engaged with questions of migration, multi culture, diversity and divergence since 1996. From 1996 to 2000 she has been a research associate in the project “Culture and Identity in the Diaspora: A Comparative Investigation of Armenian Communities in Greece” („Kultur und Identität in der Diaspora: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung armenischer Gemeinden in Griechenland“) at the ethnology institue. Within this framework she developed her PhD dissertation paper “We will never forget! Trauma, Remembrance and Identity within the Armenian Diaspora of Greece” („Wir werden niemals vergessen! Trauma, Erinnerung und Identität in der armenischen Diaspora Griechenlands“). Between the years 2002 and 2005 she was a research assistant for the project “Gender, Ethnicity and Identity: The New Housemaid’s Question in Times of Globalisation” (“Gender, Ethnizität und Identität. Die neue Dienstmädchenfrage im Zeitalter der Globalisierung“) at the Intercultural Pedagogy at the University of Münster. After a phase of parental leave she was working as a research assistant at the Georg-Eckert-Institute for international schoolbook research in Braunschweig (translation of policy agreements at the interface of integration and educational politics concerning concrete practice at schools).
Since then she has been a freelance consultant and researcher at the interface of integration and academic educational politics and practice; amongst others for a project concerned with the improvement of the cooperation between schools, families and migrant institutions, which is promoted by the Brandenburger Tor Foundation. She is also currently completing a two-year extra-occupational further advanced teaching course on systematic consulting and process facilitation. Furthermore, over many years she gained great experience within field research (Greece, Armenia, Germany) and teaching at the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, the Universities of Hamburg und Bremen and at the Internationale Frauenuniversität Hannover). In addition to that, she also completed a postgraduate course on the topic of “Teaching Qualification within Science and Further Education” at the Interdisciplinary Centre for University Didactics at the University of Hamburg (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik an der Universität Hamburg).
Publications (selection)
Globalisierte Biographien: Das Beispiel einer Haushaltsarbeiterin. In: Bukow, Wolf-Dietrich u. a. (Hg.): Biographische Konstruktionen im multikulturellen Bildlungsprozess. Individuelle Standortsicherung im globalisierten Alltag. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, Köln, 2006.
Irregular Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Work. Migrant Domestic Workers in Germany. In: Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette (Hg.): Domestic Service and the Formation of European Identity. Understanding the Globalization of Domestic Work, 16th-21st Centuries. Peter Lang Verlag, Bern, Berlin, Brüssel, Frankfurt/Main, New York, Oxford und Wien. S. 297-316, 2005 (beides zusammen mit Helma Lutz)
“Wir werden niemals vergessen!” – Trauma, Erinnerung und Identität in der armenischen Diaspora Griechenlands. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2004
Why locality matters? Diaspora consciousness and sedentariness in the Armenian Diaspora in Greece. In: Kokot, W., K. Tölölyan und C. Alfonso: Diaspora, Identity and Religion. New directions in theory and research. Routledge, London: S. 72-92, 2004
“In the Ghetto” – Prozesse der Verortung in der armenischen Diaspora Griechenlands. In: Eder, Angelika u. a. (Hg.): „Wir sind auch da!“ – Über das Leben von und mit Migranten in europäischen Großstädten. Dölling und Galitz Verlag, München/Hamburg: S. 165-188, 2003
Institutions and their Agents in Diaspora: A Comparison of Armenians in Athens and Alevis in Germany. Transnational Communities Programme Working Papers WPTC-2K-11, 2000, http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk. (zusammen mit Martin Sökefeld).