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Dr. Inken Bartels
Universität Osnabrück
IMIS
Seminarstr. 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück
Room 03/E15
Inken Bartels
Sociology
Migration and Border Regimes, Knowledge Production, International Organizations, Return Migration, North and West Africa, International Political Sociology, Practice Theories, Science and Technology Studies, Qualitative Research Methods
Since 2019, Inken is a post-doctoral researcher in the research group "The Production of Knowledge on Migration" at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University, specializing in statistical knowledge production on migration and its effects on migration governance in West Africa.
Before joining the research group, she worked at IMIS as a post-doc in the DeZIM Project “ExiTT: Exit – Transit – Transformation” where she researched transnational migration processes and regulatory practices in Senegal and the Gambia (project lead: Andreas Pott and Helen Schwenken). She holds a PhD in sociology from the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. In her dissertation, she investigated "The Practice of International Migration Management" based on a multi-sited ethnography of the IOM's projects in Morocco and Tunisia (supervision: Gökce Yurdakul and Steffen Mau). She worked as a teaching assistant in the Master Program Migration and Diversity at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and at Hamburg University. In 2013-14, she was a Visiting Graduate Researcher at the European University Institute and the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane in Florence. Inken studied political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin and the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I. For her Diploma thesis, she analyzed the international discourse on climate refugees and its political consequences (supervision: Miranda Schreurs and Bettina Engels).
Her research examines the politics of counting, categorizing and managing migration on the African continent and is situated in the disciplines of (International) Political Sociology, International Relations, Science and Technology Studies and (Critical) Migration and Border Studies. She recently published the monograph “The International Organization for Migration in North Africa. Making International Migration Management” (Routledge 2022).
Publications
Monograph
Bartels, Inken (2022):The International Organization for Migration in North Africa. Making International Migration Management. Interventions Series, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-International-Organization-for-Migration-in-North-Africa-Making-International/Bartels/p/book/9781032068541
Edited Volumes
Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (Hg.) (2023): Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar, transcript. Online: www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/b3/6c/76/oa9783839457122INe8f1iXvitmD.pdf
Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (eds.) (2022): Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe. Online: www.migrationsbegriffe.de
Journal Articles
Bartels, Inken (2024): The Politics of (Un)Counting International Migration in Senegal and the Gambia. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(9): 2207–2226. doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2307770
Stielike, Laura/Schäfer, Philipp/Stierl, Maurice/Bartels, Inken (2024): The Moral Economies of Reflexive Migration Studies. Migration Studies 12(3). doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnae021
Bartels, Inken/Sperling, Simon (2023): Erzwungene Freiwilligkeit. Zur Produktion von Returnability im europäischen Grenzregime des 21. Jahrhunderts. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen 1/2023. Online: zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2023/6107
Bartels, Inken (2019): „Rückführbarkeit fördern.“ Das Zusammenwirken von freiwilliger Rückkehr und Abschiebungen in Nordafrika. In: PERIPHERIE 156 (39): 343-368.
Bartels, Inken (2018): Practices and Power of Knowledge Dissemination. International Organizations in the Externalization of Migration Management in Morocco and Tunisia. In: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 4 (1): 47-66.
Bartels, Inken (2017): „We must do it gently.” The contested implementation of IOM's migration management in Morocco. In: Migration Studies, Special Issue „Contested Migration Regimes“ 5 (3): 315–336.
Bartels, Inken (2017): Die Externalisierung der humanitären Grenze. Das Beispiel der ‚Unterstützung freiwilliger Rückkehr‘ durch die IOM in Marokko. In: Trajectoires, Hors série n°3 (2017). Online: https://journals.openedition.org/trajectoires/2372.
Bartels, Inken (2014): Die Neuordnung der tunesischen Migrationspolitik nach dem 'Arabischen Frühling'. In: Berliner Debatte Initial 25 (4): 48-64.
Book Chapters
Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (2023): Umkämpfte Begriffe: Zur Bedeutung ‚reflexiver‘ Perspektiven auf Migration und Sprache. In: ders (eds.): Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration. Ein Inventar, transcript. Online: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5712-8/umkaempfte-begriffe-der-migration/?number=978-3-8394-5712-2
Bartels, Inken (2022): Rückkehr. In: Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (Hg.): Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe. 02.09.2022. Online: www.migrationsbegriffe.de/rueckkehr
Bartels, Inken (2021): Protecting migrants in North Africa? EU – IOM cooperation since 2015. In: Ceccorulli, Michela/Fassi, Enrico: EU’s external governance of migration: Perspectives of Justice. Globus book series, Routledge.
Bartels, Inken (2016): Managing migration in times of 'crisis': The role of the International Organization for Migration in the Southern Mediterranean. In: Hamdouch, Bachir (Hg.): L'Avenir des migrations transméditerranéennes au-delà des crises. AMI, Rabat.
Short Articles and Reports
Bartels, Inken/Raach, Fatma (2023): Tunisia – Europe’s Gatekeeper? Country Briefs on EU–Migration Partnerships with third countries, Brot für die Welt/misereor. Online: https://www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/fileadmin/mediapool/downloads/fachpublikationen/sonstige/Migration_Partnership_Tunisia_study.pdf
Bartels, Inken/Löhr, Isabella/Reinecke, Christiane/Schäfer, Philipp/Stielike, Laura (2023):
Sprache - Macht – Migration, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Online: https://www.bpb.de/themen/migration-integration/kurzdossiers/522754/sprache-macht-migration/
Bartels, Inken (2021): Die Internationale Organisation für Migration (IOM). blog migration-control.info. Online: migration-control.info/wiki/iom/ (English: migration-control.info/en/wiki/iom/, Francais: migration-control.info/fr/wiki/lorganisation-internationale-pour-les-migrations-oim/)
Bartels, Inken/Jantzer, Leonie (2020): Rückkehr in den Senegal: Aktuelle Politiken, Akteure und Diskurse. Länderprofile Migration: Senegal, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Online: https://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/laenderprofile/308102/aktuelle-politiken-akteure-und-diskurse
Bartels, Inken (2019): Money against Migration. The EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. EPaper, Heinrich Böll Foundation, March 2019. Online: https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/money_against_migration.pdf
Bartels, Inken (2018): Geld gegen Migration. Der Nothilfe-Treuhandfonds für Afrika. EPaper. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, November 2018. Online: https://www.boell.de/de/2018/12/06/geld-gegen-migration-der-nothilfe-treuhandfonds-fuer-afrika
Bartels, Inken (2018): Gelder, Projekte und Auswirkungen europäischer Migrationspolitik nach 2015. In: Positionen – Magazin des Verbandes Entwicklungspolitik Niedersachsen 2 (2018): 6-7.
Bartels, Inken (2016): Europäische Festung in Nordafrika. taz blog migrationcontrol. Online: migration-control.taz.de.
Bartels, Inken/Autor*innenkollektiv (2016): Rassismuskritik unter prekären Bedingungen. Ehrenamtliche Erfahrungen mit rassismuskritischer Organisationsentwicklung. In: BER (Hg.): Bon Voyage! Rassismuskritische Wege in der entwicklungspolitischen Bildungs- und Projektarbeit. BER, Berlin.
Bartels, Inken (2015): Reconfigurations of Tunisian migration politics after the 'Arab Spring' - The role of young civil society movements, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: 62-79. Online: edoc.hu-berlin.de/miscellanies/arabspring-41600/58/PDF/58.pdf.
Bartels, Inken (2013): “We are the youth in-between two periods.” Young Tunisian activists’ perspectives on the WSF 2013. Mittelmeer Institut Berlin. Online: www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/forschung/foeinheiten/mib/world-social-forum-2013.
Bartels, Inken (2012): Postrevolutionärer Exodus - Beobachtungen im tunesischen Küstenort Hammam Lif. In: iz3w 330 (Mai/Juni 2012). Online: www.iz3w.org/zeitschrift/ausgaben/330_arabischer_fruehling/bartels.
Bartels, Inken (2012): An den Grenzen des 'Arabischen Frühlings' - Beobachtungen aus Hammam Lif. In: ZAG - Antirassistische Zeitschrift 61: 8-10.
Bartels, Inken (2012): Deconstructing the international political discourse on 'climate refugees'. A critical analysis of dominant constructions and its political consequences. In: BIPS 02(2012): 1-18.
See: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Inken-Bartels
Teaching
„Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis“, BA course, Universität Hamburg, BA Social Sciences, summer term 2023
„Einführung in die Wissenssoziologie“, BA course, Universität Osnabrück, BA Social Sciences, summer term 2022
„Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis“, BA course, Universität Osnabrück, BA Social Sciences, winter terim 2021/22
„Im/Mobilität westafrikanischer Migrant_innen in Deutschland und Europa“, MA research course, Universität Osnabrück, MA program "International Migration and Intercultural Relations“, summer term 2019
„Migrationspolitik“, MA course, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, MA program Migration and Diversity, winter term 2017/18
„Umkämpfte Politiken des europäischen Migrationsmanagements”, BA course, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Social Sciences (Department Social Conflict and Diversity), winter term 2016/17
