Zanker, Dr. Franzisca

Funktion:

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, Koordination Cluster Flucht und Migration

E-Mail:

franzisca.zanker [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Telefon:

+49 (0)761 888 78 31

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/FranziscaZ

Forschungsbereiche:

Migrationsgovernance, Fluchtschutz, Friedensprozesse, Zivilgesellschaft

Regionale Schwerpunkte:

Afrika

Ausbildung:

2011-2015	Promotion in Politikwissenschaft an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Titel: The Legitimisation of Peace Negotiations: A Role for Civil Society)
2008-2010	MA Internationale Beziehungen an der Universiteit Leiden
2004-2008	Englische (LLB) & Französische Rechtwissenschaften (M1 droit européen) an der University of Exeter/Université de Rennes

Berufserfahrung / Forschungsfelder:

2017 -	Leiterin des Forschungscluster Flucht und Migration
Oktober 2016 -	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg
2011-2016	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am GIGA Institut für Afrika Studien, Hamburg
2010	Forschungsassistentin beim Overseas Development Institute, London
2009	Forschungsassistentin an der Fakultät für Politikwissenschaften, Universiteit Leiden
2006-2010	Praktika u.a. beim OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities, Den Hag (2010), bei der Association for the Prevention of Torture, Geneva (2008) und der Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Kampala (2006)

Mitgliedschaften:

Mitgründerin von AEGIS Collaborative Research Group African Migration, Mobility and Displacement (AMMODI)

Mitglied DFG-Netzwerk Migration & Im/Mobilität im Globalen Süden in Zeiten einer Pandemie

Mitglied Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW)

Mitglied Netzwerk Fluchtforschung

Mitglied International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM)

Mitglied Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (VAD)

Sonstiges:

Vorstand Netzwerk Fluchtforschung (Gleichstellungsbeauftragte)

Co-Editor Reviews Section Journal of Refugee Studies

Projekte:

Pandemic (Im)mobility: COVID-19 and Migrant Communities in the Global South

Zwangsmigration in Afrika: Interessenvertretung und Politische Herausforderungen

The Political Economy of West African Migration Governance – Die Politische Ökonomie der Westafrikanischen Migrationsgovernance

MIASA IFG1: Die Rolle nichtstaatlicher Akteure in der Governance transnationaler und regionaler Migration

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen:

(2023) A typology of resistance: the ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa, Territory, Politics, Governance, online first.

(2022) Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia, Security Dialogue, 53 (5), pp 475- 493 (with Judith Altrogge).

(2022) The (in)formality of mobility in the ECOWAS region: The paradoxes of free movement, South African Journal of International Affairs, 29 (2), pp. 187-205 (with Kwaku Arhin-Sam, Amanda Bisong, Leonie Jegen and Harouna Mounkaila)

(2022) No hope for the ‘foreigners’: The conflation of refugees and migrants in South Africa, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 20 (2) pp.253-265 (with Khangelani Moyo).

(2018) Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations, Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution; Abingdon: Routledge

(2017) Moving Beyond Hybridity: The Multi-Scalar Adaptation of Community Policing in Liberia, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 11(2), pp.166-185.

Publikationsliste (Zuletzt April 2023 aktualisiert)

Ausgewählte Öffentlichkeitsarbeit:

(2023) Tunisia: President's offensive statements targeted black migrants - with widespread fallout, March 2023, The Conversation (with Nermin Abbasi) (available in French)

(2022) Free movement in West Africa: the culture of mobility still matters despite challenges , August 2022, The Conversation (with Amanda Bisong and Leonie Jegen)

(2022) Plans for offshoring refugee protection undermine human dignity, African political interests, and international norms, Februar 2022, Migration Control

(2021) “Nowhere to be found”: Three Decades of UNHCR in South Africa, März 2021, Völkerrechtsblog

(2020) How to improve the migration cooperation between the EU and Africa?, April 2020, MEDAM

(2020) South Africa’s xenophobic agenda is impeding its coronavirus response, April 2020, African Arguments (with Khangelani Moyo)

(2020) The tiny African country making a big case against Myanmar, Februar 2020, The Lowy Institute (with Antje Missbach)

MitarbeiterInnen

Publikationen

Online-Publikation, Blog-Artikel, op-ed

Free Movement in West Africa: the Culture of Mobility still...

Jegen, M.A. Leonie / Dr. Franzisca Zanker / Amanda Bisong

The Conversation

2022

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

African perspectives on migration: Re-centring Southern Africa

Zanker, Dr. Franzisca

Migration Studies

Despite the explosion of migration literature in recent years, there remains a bias in aca-demic literature to focus on Europe or other areas in the Global North. Migration studiestend to follow the political interests of curbing access for refugees and other migrants in the Global North, divorced from the fact that most displacement and indeed much mobil-ity takes place in the Global South (Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 2020).

2022

Online-Publikation, Blog-Artikel, op-ed

Plans for offshoring refugee protection undermine human dignity...

Zanker, Dr. Franzisca

Migration Control

Franzisca Zanker wrote a blog post on Migration Control about efforts to offshore the protection of refugees, which have recently been brought into the spotlight once again.

2022