Zanker, Dr. Franzisca

Position: 
Senior Researcher, Coordination Cluster Patterns of (Forced) Migration
Email: 
franzisca.zanker [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: 
+49 (0)761 888 78 31
Areas of Research: 
Migration governance, refugee protection, peace processes, civil society
Regional Focus: 
Africa

Publications

Platzhalter Online-Publikation, Blog-Artikel, op-ed
Online-Publikation, Blog-Artikel, op-ed
Jegen, M.A. Leonie / Dr. Franzisca Zanker / Amanda Bisong
The Conversation
2022
Platzhalterbild Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)
Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)
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
Platzhalter Online-Publikation, Blog-Artikel, op-ed
Online-Publikation, Blog-Artikel, op-ed
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