Dr. Sophie Hinger
Research assistant
Member of the working group Social Geography with focus on population and migration research
Social geography, geographical migration research
I am a social and political geographer with an interest in (urban) geographies of migration, (local) negotiations of asylum, border regimes, and social movements.
I am a member of the working group Social Geography, the Institute of Migration Studies (IMIS), and the Sonderforschungsbereich 1604 "The Production of migration".
I am currently working in the project "the production of urban spaces of migration through municipalities and research" as part of the SFB 1604 and I coordinate the space-related projects within the SFB.
Since 2017, I have been co-coordinating the Double Degree program "European Master in Migration Studies" (EuMIGS) between the Osnabrück's Master in International Migration and Intercultural Relations and six other European Master programs in Migration.
I have taught various courses on migration, bordering, (solidary) cities and qualitative research, since 2013.
In my PhD project I studied local responses to and consequences of asylum migration. I analyzed in particular urban negotiations over the reception and accommodation of refugees, deportations, and integration politics. I completed the dissertation entitled "The Politics of Presence in Asylum: Negotiating the Inclusion:exclusion of refugees" in 2021 at the University of Osnabrück.
Books, book chapters
Hinger, S. (2023) The Politics of Presence in Asylum. Negotiating the Inclusion:Exclusion of Refugees in Osnabrück. link
Hinger, S. (2023) Integration. In: Handbook on flight and refugee research. (pp. 321-326). Nomos Publishing House. Hinger, S. & Schweitzer, R. (eds.) The Politics of (Dis-)Integration. Cham: Springer (2020) Link
Hinger, S. (2020). Integration through disintegration? The distinction between deserving and undeserving refugees in national and local integration policies in Germany. In Politics of (dis) integration (pp. 19-39). Springer, Cham.
Collyer, M., Hinger, S., & Schweitzer, R. (2020). Politics of (dis) integration-An introduction. In Politics of (dis) integration (pp. 1-18). Springer, Cham.
Hinger, S., Daphi, P. & Stern, V. (2019) Divided Reactions: Pro- and anti-migrant mobilization in Germany. In: The Refugee Reception crisis: Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations (pp.55-74) Link
Hinger, S., Kirchhoff, M., & Wiese, R. (2018). "We Belong Together!" Collective Anti-deportation Protests in Osnabrück. In: Protest movements in asylum and deportation (pp. 163-184). Springer, Cham. link
https://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/4_Publikationen/PDFs/imis49.pdf
Journal articles
Hinger, S. (forthcoming) The Local Production of Differential Arrival in German Asylum Accommodation. Geographical Journal.
Ilker Ataç, Helge Schwiertz, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Robin Vandevoordt, Sophie Hinger & Susanne Spindler (2023) Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration, Geopolitics, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2129732
Hinger, S. & Kirchhoff, M. (2019) Ongoing Struggle for Participation - Dynamics of Collective Protests against Deportation in Osnabrück (2014-2017). Research Journal Social Movements, 32(3), 350-363.
Hinger, S., & Schaefer, P. (2019). Making a Difference - The Accommodation of Refugees in Leipzig and Osnabrück. Geography, 73(1), 63-76. link
Hinger, S. Schäfer, P. and Pott, A. (2016) The Local Production of Asylum. Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 29, Issue 4, December 1, 2016, 440-463.
Hinger, S. (2016) Asylum in Germany: The Making of the Crisis and the Role of Civil Society, Human Geography, 9(2), 78-88. link
Other publications (without peer-review)
Hinger, S. and Schweitzer, R. (forthcoming) The Politics of (dis)integration, In: Encyclopedia Of Global Migration: New Mobilities And Artivism.
Edward Elgar Hinger, S., Heller, C. & Pezzani, L. (2018). Transformative Trajectories-The shifting Mediterranean Border Regime and the Challenges of Critical Knowledge Production. movements, 4(1), 193. link
Hinger, S. (2017) Allemagne : les villes-laboratoires, un autre acceuil possible? Revue Projet, 358,(3), 67-75. link
Hinger, S. and Schäfer, P. (2017) Are you already housed - or are you still being housed? An inventory of the housing situation of asylum seekers in Germany. Focus on migration. Policy brief perspectives on the integration of refugees in Germany. link
Hinger, S. & Steinhilper, E. (2017). L'accueil allemand, un modèle pour la France? Plein Droit, (No 115), 7-10. link
"Rights through presence? Local Negotiations of the In:Exclusion of Refugees." New Cultural Geography Conference 2024, University of Münster, 24.05.2024
La " domopolitique " et l'asile : Le système de dispersion et de logement des exilé.e.s en Allemagne, Colloque JUNIOR du CIERA sur les Politiques d'accueil et expériences d'exil - Perspectives franco-allemandes, 16.9.2021
La ville comme " machine d'intégration " exclusive ? Politiques d'inclusion et d'exclusion des réfugiés dans les villes allemandes depuis le " long été de la migration " en 2015. Journée d'étude sur " villes et gouvernance(s) de migration ", Science Po, CERI, 10.9.2021
"The Politics of Presence in Asylum - Negotiations over De/Centralized Asylum Accommodation in Germany". Seminar MiDi, Migration and Diversity, Science Po, CEE, 17.6.2021
"Deportation for integration? How the integration paradigm is used to justify deportations" (with Reinhard Schweitzer), Migration Research Group Seminar Series, University of Sheffield, 22.4.21
"The contested bordering through asylum accommodation in German cities" Input at the workshop "Negotiating borders. Local migration regimes, citizenship, and civil society", 17th Annual IMISCOE Conference, online, 2.7.2020
"The Reflexive Turn in Migration Research and the Local Production of Asylum". Online Workshop of the Research Group Migration and Social Policy of the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Hildesheim, 27.5.2020
"(Un)Making Heimat - The Role of Civil Society in the Contested Production of Urban Belonging", IMISCOE Spring Conference, University of Lisbon, 7.2.2020
"Divided Reactions: Pro and Anti-Migrant Mobilizations in Germany", international conference and book presentation. Brussels, 24.10.2019
"Divided reactions: Pro- and anti-migrant mobilizations in Germany" IMISCOE Conference at Malmö University, Sweden, 28.7.2019
"Field of conflict deportations. Conditions and consequences of local protests against Dublin deportations" IPB Conference Berlin, 9.11.2018
"Asylum? That's a very topical issue" Geographical Colloquium, IfL Leipzig, 13.12.2016
"Beyond Anti-Deportation - Collective Struggles in Osnabrück", Deportations as a Conflicting Issue, Osnabrück University, 22.9.2016
"Asylum in Germany: The Making of the Crisis and the Role of Civil Society", RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2.9.2016
"The Constitution of the (Non-) Refugee Subject in integration policies" INTEGRIM -SCRIBANI Conference 2016, Bilbao, July 2016
Sophie Hinger Curriculum Vitae "Decentralized refugee accommodation in German localities and changing geographies of support", Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings, University of Sheffield, 12.10.2015
"The Potential of the Regime Perspective for the Study of Refugee Reception, Perceptions and Policies in European Localities", with Philipp Schäfer, 12th Annual IMISCOE Conference, Geneva, 27.7. 2015