Topics
Rural Studies
- Transformations of rural areas through immigration with a focus on housing, economy and social life
Geographical Migration Studies
- Forms of privileged migration (Lifestyle Migration)
- Refugee migration
- temporary forms of migration
- Migration in older age
Social Geography
- Negotiations of identities and belonging
- Constructions of home
Tourism Research
Geographical Gerontology
Methods
- Qualitative methods
- Visual methods (reflexive photography)
- Participatory methods
Regions
Rural Areas in Germany and Europe
- Bavarian Forest, Lower Bavarian Spa Triangle
- Slovenian Alps
Iberian Peninsular
- Andalusia (coast and hinterland)
- Costa Blanca (coast and hinterland)
Southern Ecuador and Dominican Republic
Research Projects
Ongoing
MATILDE „Migration Impact Assessment to Enhance Integration and Local Development in European Rural and Mountain Regions“ (2020-2023, finanziert im Rahmen des EU H2020 Forschungsprogramms), Projektflyer
Future for refugees in rural regions of Germany (2018-2020, Project leader: S. Kordel (FAU), P. Mehl (Thuenen-Institute of rural areas Braunschweig), B. Glorius (TU Chemnitz) & H. Schammann (University of Hildesheim), funded by the Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, BMEL, based on a decision of the German parliament. Project executing organisation is the Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, BLE, in the course of the program for innovation funding).
See project homepage
Migration – (Language)Identity – Citizenhship: “Bateyes” in the Dominican Republic (2016-2019, together with Prof. Dr. Silke Jansen, Chair of Romance Studies, FAU, own funds)
Touristic valorisation of rurality in a continuum of authenticity and staging – the example of the Bavarian forest (since 2012, together with T. Weidinger, own funds)
Completed
Workshop Potentials of Immigration for Rural Development (2019, together with Tobias Weidinger, funded by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH)
Came, to stay! Residential location choices of recognised refugees in rural Lower Bavaria – a retrospective analysis (2016,-2017, together with T. Weidinger, funded by Staedtler Stiftung, 2016-2017)
- Press release “Wo würden Flüchtlinge gerne wohnen?”, Mittelbayerische Zeitung (19.06.2017)
- Press release “Flüchtlinge: In welche Orte zieht es sie?“, Passauer Neue Presse (10.06.2017)
- Press release “Asylbewerber: Zuflucht im Ferienidyll”, Mittelbayerische Zeitung (01.09.2015)
- Press release “Zuflucht im Ferienidyll“, Passauer Neuen Presse (27.08.2015)
New migration processes and rural development in peripheral areas: status quo and strategies (2016-2017, together with Tobias Weidinger and Prof. Igor Jelen, Tieste, Italy, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service in the course of the Programm Hochschuldialog Südeuropa)
Crisis! What Crisis? – Europe! What Europe? (2013, together with Tobias Weidinger and Dr. Andrés Gerique, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service in the course of the Programm Hochschuldialog Südeuropa)
Striving for the “good life” – home-making among senior citizens on the move. An analysis of German (pre)retirees in Spain and Germany in a continuum of tourism and migration (PhD project)
MIRES/3I – Migración Internacional de Retirados en España: Impactos, Identidad, Integración, International Retirement Migration in Spain: Impacts, Identity, Integration, project leader: Prof. Dr. Vicente Rodríguez, CCHS(CSIC, Madrid, funded by the Spanish National Ministry of Science)