Mercator Fellow, Guests and Associated Researchers
Dr Annett Bochmann
Associated Researcher
Dr Annett Bochmann
Associated Researcher
Annett Bochmann is a sociologist at the Institute of Social Science at Humboldt University of Berlin and a former researcher in subproject 2 of the Research Unit. Her research focuses on the intersections of global sociology, political and legal sociology, as well as mobility, camp, and border studies. In her research she combines her interests in social theory with empirical insights gained through qualitative methods, especially long-term ethnographic fieldwork, interaction, and discourse analysis.
Unter den Linden 6
Department of Social Sciences
Macrosociology
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
D-10099 Berlin
Email: annett.bochmann@hu-berlin.de
Homepage: : https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/bochmann/
Dr Amrita Datta
Associated Researcher
Dr Amrita Datta
Associated Researcher
Amrita is a sociologist focusing primarily on transnational migration and mobility. Presently, she is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Siegen, Germany, and is the principle investigator of the project titled “Indian High-skilled migrants in Germany: Transnational Practices and Prospects”. Her project tries to identify the transnational practices, motivations of immigration, and trends and future potentials of the Indian immigrants in Germany, specifically the white collar migrants (EU Blue Card Holders) and students, and explores the much contested relation between pandemic and international mobility. It proposes to argue that the fast expanding Indian diaspora in Germany increasingly impacts the social landscape there in ways hitherto unfamiliar for the German society. Amrita’s other research interests include: gender-mobility/migration interface, migration uncertainties, and reflexivity in migration research. Presently, she is working on her first book on the Indian immigrant communities in Germany, tentatively titled: Why Move?
AR-K 506
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
University of Siegen
D-57068 Siegen
Phone: tba
Email: amrita.datta@uni-siegen.de
Homepage: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/datta_amrita/index.html?l
Prof Dr Habibul Khondker
Mercator Fellow
Prof Dr Habibul Khondker
Mercator Fellow
Professor of Sociology
Habibul Khondker (PhD, Pittsburgh) is professor of sociology at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE and Co-Chair of Research Committee 9 (Social Transformations and Sociology of Development) of the International Sociological Association. His research is on social inequality, glocalization, globalization, Asian globalization, cricket, migration, migration governance, secularism, democracy, new media, and social transformation. He has co-edited The Emergence of Bangladesh (Springer, 2022) with Muurlink and Ali, Covid-19 and Governance (Routledge, 2021) with Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Haeran Lim. He co-authored Globalization: East/West. (Sage, 2010; Turkish translation 2018) with Bryan Turner and co-edited Asia and Europe in Globalization: Continents, Regions, and Nations (Brill 2006) with Goran Therborn and 21st Century Globalization: Perspectives from the Gulf. (Zayed University Press, 2010) with Jan Nederveen Pieterse.
Email: Habibul.khondker@zu.ac.ae
Dr Jonathan Ngeh
Associated Researcher
Dr Jonathan Ngeh
Associated Researcher
Jonathan Ngeh is a postdoc associate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Cologne and principal investigator at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) in Cologne. He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Umeå with a dissertation on the everyday experiences of African migrants in Sweden. His current research projects include ‘Debates on “trafficking in persons and slavery” in Cameroon’ and ‘Communication during and after COVID-19: (re)producing social inequalities and/or opportunities among African migrants in the United Arab Emirates’ (with Prof. Dr Michaela Pelican). He has a forthcoming paper in Ethnography 2022 entitled ‘’Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences’. The piece discusses everyday life in overcrowded migrant accommodations and how they cope with deplorable housing conditions. Before moving to the GSSC in 2019, Jonathan taught development theory and policy courses at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon.
Classen-Kappelmann Strasse 24
Global South Studies Center
University of Cologne
D-50931 Cologne
Phone: +49 (0)221-470 76641
Email: jngeh@uni-koeln.de
Homepage: https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/personen/mitglieder/ngeh-dr-jonathan