Publications

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Monographs and editorships

2017: (ed.): Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (with Hannes Warnecke).  link

2012: Criminalidad y Discurso en Costa Rica. Reflexiones críticas sobre un problema social, San José, Costa Rica: FLACSO.  full text

2011: Crime in Costa Rica. On the discursive construction of a social and political problem, Studies on Latin America Volume 12, Baden-Baden: Nomos.  link

2010: (ed.): Young people in violent environments. Wege aus den Kreisläufen der Gewalt, Serie Eine Welt der Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden Vol. 24, Baden-Baden: Nomos (with Sabine Kurtenbach and Rüdiger Blumör).

2008: (ed.): Violencias Centroamericanas. Temas y perspectivas, Dossier in: Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal No. 32 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2008: (ed.): Imaginaciones y Percepciones. Si estudiantes de Costa Rica, El Salvador y Nicaragua fueran presidentes..., Cuaderno de Investigación No. 24, Colección Humanidades, Managua: UCA Publicaciones (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2005: Immigration discourses and migration policy in Costa Rica. Wandel und Konstanten in der gesellschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit der nikaraguanischen Migration seit den 1980er Jahren, Beiträge zur Lateinamerika-Forschung Band 18, Hamburg: IIK.

Essays (selection)

2023: 'Plausible Enough': The IRO and the Negotiation of Refugee Status After the Second World War, in: Journal of Contemporary History 58:3, pp. 398-423.  Full text

2022: Rethinking the Post-War International Migration Regime from the Global South: Venezuela in a Global History of White Immigration, in: Itinerario 46:2 (2022), pp. 214-232.  Full text

2020: Negotiating Resettlement in Venezuela after World War II: An Exploration, in: Historical Social Research, 45. 2020, No. 4, pp. 203-225.  full text

2018: Violence-induced mobility and its consequences. "Displaced Persons" in Osnabrück and the Refugee Crisis after the Second World War, in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen, Vol. 123, pp. 183-231 (with Lukas Hennies and Christoph Rass).

2018: The Post-World War II Resettlement of European Refugees in Venezuela: a Twofold Translation of Migration, in: Pisarz-Ramirez, Gabriele/ Warnecke-Berger, Hannes (eds.): Spatialization Processes in the Americas. Configurations and Narratives, Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 243-267 (with Christoph Rass).

2018: Punitive Populism and Fear of Crime in Central America, in: Lee, Murray/ Mythen, Gabe (Eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Fear of Crime, London/ New York: Routledge, pp. 388-402.

2017: The Enigma of Violent Realities in Central America: Towards a Historical Perspective, in: Huhn, Sebastian/ Warnecke, Hannes (eds.): Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (with Hannes Warnecke).

2017: Questioning the Crime Wave: On the Rise of Punitive Populism in Central America since the 1950s, in: Huhn, Sebastian/ Warnecke, Hannes (eds.): Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2015: Costa Rica. From Central American Switzerland to the neoliberal norm, in: Hilse, Ina/ Büttner, Kirstin (eds.): Engaghiert, resistent, bedroht. Handlungsspielräume und Perspektiven sozialer Bewegungen in Mittelamerika, Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag, pp. 152-169 (with Torge Löding).

2014: Sistematización de Modelos explicativos de la violencia en El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua, San Salvador: GIZ (with Otto Argueta).

2012: Zentralamerika: Zum schwankenden Nachrichtenwert von Kriminalität in einer heterogenen Printmedienlandschaft, in: Lateinamerikagruppe Marburg (ed.): Medien und Demokratie in Lateinamerika, Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag, 200-220 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2011: Blocked Democracies in Central America, GIGA Focus Latin America, No. 10/2011, Hamburg: GIGA (with Otto Argueta, Sabine Kurtenbach and Peter Peetz).
(English: Blocked Democracies in Central America, GIGA Focus International, No. 5/2011).

2010: La percepción social de la inseguridad en Costa Rica, El Salvador y Nicaragua, in: Revista de Ciencias Sociales No. 122, pp. 149-165.

2010: Crime Statistics, Law Enforcement and Talk of Crime in Costa Rica, in: Journal of Social Criminology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 105-142.

2010: La cultura del miedo y control en Costa Rica. Estadísticas de criminalidad y seguridad pública, in: Cuadernos de Sociología No. 10, pp. 21-43.

2010: Staging and instrumentalization of youth violence: A challenge for development cooperation, in: Kurtenbach, Sabine/ Blumör, Rüdiger/ Huhn, Sebastian (eds.): Jugendliche in gewaltsamen Lebenswelten. Wege aus den Kreisläufen der Gewalt, Serie Eine Welt der Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden Vol. 24, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 119-131 (with Peter Peetz).

2010: Jugendbanden in Costa Rica, El Salvador und Nicaragua - zur sozialen Konstruktion einer teuflischen Tätergruppe, in: Imbusch, Peter (ed.): Gewaltstudien - Jugendliche als Täter und Opfer von Gewalt, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, pp. 213-241 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2009: A History of Nonviolence? The Social Construction of Costa Rican Peaceful Identity, in: Social Identities. Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Vol. 15, No. 6, November, pp. 787-810.

2009: Contemporary Discourses on Violence in Central American Newspapers, in: International Communication Gazette, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 243-261 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2009: Of garbage and maras. The (Re)Production of Political Urgency in Central American Schools, in: Meyer, Andreas/ Kandlinger, Eva-Maria/ Wörner, Daniela Marie (eds.): Inseguridad con Seguridad? Wege aus der Gewalt, Munich: m press, pp. 169-193 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2009: Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (II). Talk of Crime and Social Changes, GIGA Working Paper No. 108.

2009: Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (I). Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement, GIGA Working Paper No. 104.

2009: Contested Cornerstones of Nonviolent National Self-Perception in Costa Rica: A Historical Approach, GIGA Working Paper No. 101.

2008: A History of Non-Violence: Insecurity and the Normative Power of the Imagined in Costa Rica, GIGA Working Paper No. 84.

2008: Violencia, seguridad y el Estado: los fundamentos discursivos de las políticas de seguridad ciudadana en Centroamérica, in : Rivera, Fredy (ed.): Seguridad multidimensional en América Latina, Quito: FLACSO, pp. 351-368 (with Peter Peetz).

2008: Discourses on violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Everyday Life, GIGA Working Paper No. 81.

2008: Discursos cotidianos de inseguridad, in: Huhn, Sebastian/ Oettler, Anika/ Peetz, Peter (eds.): Imaginaciones y Percepciones. Si estudiantes de Costa Rica, El Salvador y Nicaragua fueran presidentes..., Cuaderno de Investigación No. 24, Colección Humanidades, Managua: UCA publicaciones, pp. 7-20/ pp. 153-170 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2008: Anders, bedroht und bedrohlich - Jugendbanden in Zentralamerika, in: Klimke, Daniela (ed.): Exklusion in der Marktgesellschaft, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, pp. 159-171 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2007: La construcción de realidades inseguras. Reflexiones acerca de la violencia en Centroamérica, in: Revista de Ciencias Sociales No. 117-118, pp. 73-89 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2007: Zentralamerika: Sozialer Konflikt um CAFTA und seine Folgen, GIGA Focus Lateinamerika, No. 10 (with Torge Löding).

2006: Construyendo Inseguridades. Aproximaciones a la violencia en Centroamérica desde el análisis del discurso; GIGA Working Paper No. 34 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2006: Exploding Crime? Topic Management in Central American Newspapers; GIGA Working Paper No. 33 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).

2006: Youth Gangs in Central America. On the construction of a non-traditional threat, in: Jahrbuch Lateinamerika. Analysen und Berichte 30; Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 31-48 (with Anika Oettler).

2006: Die marode Musterdemokratie Costa Rica, GIGA Focus Lateinamerika, No. 4, Hamburg: GIGA.

2005: La talaraña de los discursos sobre violencia en Centroamérica, in: Iberoamericana, No. 19, pp. 188-193 (with Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz).