Recent Writing

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1. How Trade Unions Can Champion Solidarity in Europe’s Migration Debate, Social Europe, 18 June 2025
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2. Konflikte um eine sozial gerechte Klimawende, Work in Progress, 8 October 2025,
   with Sarah Mewes and Magdalena Polloczek
   Title in English: Conflicts around a Socially Just Climate Transition
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3. Wie Klimakrise und globale Migration miteinander verbunden sind, Work in Progress, 13 October 2025,
   with Maximilian Pichl
   Title in English: How the Climate Crisis and Global Migration are Connected
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4. Climate Refugees Are Already Here — And Democracy Hangs In The Balance, Social Europe, 28 October 2025,
   with Maximilian Pichl
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5. Wie Gendereinstellungen Klimasorgen prägen, Work in Progress, 29 January 2026,
   with Rahel Weier and Miriam Rehm
   Title in English: How Gender Attitudes Shape Climate Concerns
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6. How Gender Attitudes Shape Climate Concerns, Social Europe, 20 February 2026,
   with Miriam Rehm and Rahel Weier
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7. Gewerkschaften müssen die Migrationsgesellschaft verteidigen, Jacobin, 30 April 2026,
   with Sükran Budak, Ongoo Buyanjargal and Romin Khan
   Title in English: Trade Unions Must Defend the Society of Migration
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Research

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Books

1. Wir leben hier und wir bleiben hier, die Sans Papiers im Kampf um ihre Rechte, Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89691-945-8
   Title in English: We live here and we will stay here, the Sans Papiers in a struggle for their rights
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2. Solidarität und ihre Widersprüche, Gewerkschaften im Sommer der Migration 2015, transcript, Bielefeld, 2023
   Title in English: Solidarity and its contradictions, labor unions in the Summer of Migration 2015
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Book Chapters, Articles and Reports

1. Challenging Infrastructures of Domestic Labor: Implication for Labor Organizing in Lebanon and Belgium, Journal of Labor and Society, 2019,
   with Mouna Maaroufi
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2. Österreichische Gewerkschaften im Sommer der Migration, Kurswechsel 3/19, 2019
   Title in English: Austrian Trade Unions in the Summer of Migration
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3. Trade Unions in Solidarity 2015: Testimonials from the German and Austrian Trade Union Movement, In B. Galgóczi (Ed.) Betwixt and between: integrating refugees into the EU labour market, Brussels, ETUI, 2021
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4. Arbeitskämpfe im Migrationsregime nach 2015: Ein Streik bei Amazon, In Buckel et al. (Eds.) Kämpfe um Migrationspolitik seit 2015: Zur Transformation des europäischen Migrationsregimes, Bielefeld, transcript, 2021
   Title in English: Labor Struggles in the Migration Regime after 2015: a Strike at Amazon
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5. Abschieben und anwerben. Gewerkschaftliche Handlungsmöglichkeiten in der aktuellen migrationspolitischen Debatte, WSI-Mitteilungen 78(3), 2025, 231–233
   Title in English: Deportation and Recruitment: Trade Union Options for Action in the Current Debate on Migration Policy
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6. Rassismus, Antirassismus und Gewerkschaften, In Nationaler Diskriminierungs- und Rassismusmonitor (NaDiRa) (Ed.) Rassismusforschung II: Rassismen, Communitys und antirassistische Bewegungen, Bielefeld, transcript, 2025, 73–98,
   with Peter Birke
   Title in English: Racism, Anti-Racism and Trade Unions
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7. Racism, Anti-Racism and Trade Unions, In D. Sacchetto, P. Birke (Eds.) Migrant Workers, forthcoming,
   with Peter Birke

8. Hegemonieprojekte, In C. Scherrer, G. Eyselein (Eds.) Handbuch HMPA, forthcoming
   Title in English: Hegemonic Projects

9. Zwischen Migrationsabwehr und Solidarität: Gewerkschaften und die Reartikulation von Solidarität, WSI-Mitteilungen, forthcoming,
   with Serhat Karakayalı and Peter Birke
   Title in English: Between Migration Control and Solidarity: Trade Unions and the Rearticulation of Solidarity

CV

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Experience

1. Intern, Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour, Brussels, [08/2012 – 02/2013]

2. Research Associate, Austrian Society for European Politics, Vienna, [03/2013 – 11/2014]

3. Policy Officer, Austrian Trade Union Federation, Brussels, [01/2014 – 01/2016]

4. Lecturer, University of Kassel, Institute of Political Science, Kassel, [10/2017 – 03/2019]

5. Research Fund Management, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Dusseldorf, [09/2021 – 09/2022]

6. Research Associate, Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Dusseldorf, [02/2024 – now]

Research Fellowships

1. Visiting Fellow, Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre at KU Leuven, Leuven [01/2016 – 01/2017]

2. Visiting Fellow, School of Industrial Relations and Labor, Cornell University, New York State - Ithaca [01/2019 – 03/2019]

3. Visiting Fellow, The Worker Institute at Cornell, New York City [04/2019]

4. Visiting Fellow and Trainee, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels [09/2020 – 12/2020]