Main content
Top content
Katharina Kleynmans
Katharina Kleynmans
Osnabrück University
IMIS
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück
Germany
Office: 03/E19
Phone: +49 541 969 4676
Social sciences
Eastern Europe, city and migration, political participation, EU border regime, migration knowledge production
Since June 2024: Doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich 1604) 'Production of Migration' in project B2 “The Production of Mobility Options: Migration and Border Management in the Framework of the Eastern Partnership of the European Union” with a focus on the EU external border between Romania, Ukraine and Moldova. Before starting her PhD, Katharina worked as a project manager at a large German foundation in an international program and coordinated events and communications around global challenges such as EU-Russia-relations, migration, health and climate change. She also spent one year with a scholarship as German lecturer and project manager at Alecu Russo State University in Bălți, Moldova where she coordinated exchange projects between Ukrainian and Moldovan students.
Katharina’s dissertation project analyzes the border practice and the production of mobility options in the border region. Through an ethnographic field research, the project aims to understand the meaning and function of the border for different actors and sheds light on discrepancies between the theoretical and the practical implementation practices.
Educational Background:
- 2017-2020: International Migration and Intercultural Relations (M.A.), University of Osnabrück
- 2012-2016: Comparative Ethnology, Media Science and German as a Foreign Language, University of Regensburg (B.A.) with an Exchange semester at the University Austral de Chile, Valdivia
