Kontakt:
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
– Kritische Migrationsforschung
– Flüchtlings- und Zwangsmigrationsstudien
– Europa-Mittelmeerraum
– Moderne Politik- und Sozialtheorie
– Diskursanalyse
– Ethnographie
– Qualitative Forschungsmethodik
– Mündliche Geschichte (Oral history)
Curriculum Vitae
Hamza Safouane hat im Februar 2018 seine Doktorarbeit in Planning, Governance and Globalization an Virginia Tech (USA) zu “Governing migrants in the European Union: A critical approach to interrogating migrants’ journey narratives” erfolgreich verteidigt. Im Mai 2018 erhielt er den “Richard E. Zody Award for Outstanding Dissertation.” Er ist seit Juli 2017 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg. Er studierte Sozial- und Politikwissenschaft an Virginia Tech und Ökonomie und Internationale Beziehungen an der Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs – Syracuse University (USA).
Sprachen:
Französisch; Arabisch; Englisch; Deutsch
Stipendien und Auszeichnungen:
Juli 2017 – Juli 2018: Stipendiat: internen Forschungsförderung (IFF) der HSU für das Forschungsprojekt: “Migrants’ Agency: Key to a Better Understanding of Human Mobility”
September 2016 – Januar 2017: International Research Experience Program (IREP)-Stipendium der Technischen Universität Darmstadt
August 2014 – Dezember 2016: Stipendiat: Virginia Tech Graduate Scholarship
August 2008 – Mai 2010: Stipendiat: Gerald and Daphna Cramer International Scholarship an der Syracuse University
Gutachtertätigkeit:
Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang
New Political Science (Taylor & Francis Online)
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (Springer)
Security and Defence Quarterly (War Studies University, Warsaw, Poland)
Publikationen
Monographie:
Safouane, H. (2019). Stories of Border Crossers: A Critical Inquiry into Forced Migrants’ Journey Narratives to the European Union. Springer VS, 250
Peer reviewed:
Safouane, H., Jünemann, A., Göttsche, S. (2020). Beyond a story of emancipated and disenfranchised migrants: the problematisation of agency as an analytically normative and politically prescriptive approach. New Political Sciences. DOI: 10.1080/07393148.2020.1761736
Safouane, H. (2017). Between Hospitality and Inhospitality: The Politics of Migrants Protection in Germany. Spectra, DOI:10.21061/spectra.v6i1.403
Safouane, H. (2016). Manufacturing Striated Space for Migrants: An Ethnography of Initial Reception Centers for Asylum Seekers in Germany. Voluntas, 27 (6), 1922-1939, DOI:10.1007/s11266-016-9813-1
Book Review / Rezension:
Safouane, H. (2019). Review of the book Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State, by Dawn Chatty. Global Affairs, 5(2), DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2019.1629823
Safouane, H. (2017). ). Review of the book Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan, by Miloš Debnár. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 67-69, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/njmr-2018-0005
Interview:
Auer, V., Safouane, H. (2018). Interview for the Tutziger Diskurs (Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing): “Der gesamte Fluchtweg ist gewaltsam,” https://www.tutzinger-diskurs.de/der- gesamte-fluchtweg- ist-gewaltsam (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xYdeCgjRY)
Other publications / Sonstige Veröffentlichungen:
Fromm, Nicolas / Jünemann, Annette / Safouane, Hamza (eds.) (2021): Power in Vulnerability. A Multi-Dimensional Review of Migrants’ Vulnerabilities. In der Reihe “Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik”, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Link hier.
Safouane, H. together with Nicolas Fromm and Sabith Khan. (2021). “A Case for Dark Horse Thinking? Re-Imagining Group Asylum”. In: Fromm, Nicolas with Annette Jünemann and Hamza Safouane (Eds.): Power in Vulnerability: A Multi-Dimensional Review of Migrants’ Vulnerabilities. In der Reihe “Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik”, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Link hier.
Safouane, Hamza / Jünemann, Annette / Göttsche, Sandra (2021): “Forced migrants’ tactical performances of agency: A theoretical perspective”. Geopolitics. Link hier.
Safouane, H. (2019, January 3). “Migrants’ Timeless Tales: A Visit to Bremerhaven’s German Emigration Centre.” LIDC Migration Leadership Team, SOAS, University of London: blogs.soas.ac.uk/lidc-mlt/2019/01/03/guest-blog-migrants-timeless-tales-a-visit-to-bremerhavens-german-emigration-centre/
Safouane, H. (2013, July 5). Mohamed Morsi coup: the army versus the government is just the way things go in Egypt. PolicyMic
Safouane, H. (2013, June 23). Hassan Rouhani: don’t expect Iran to become a Western-style democracy. PolicyMic
Safouane, H. (2013, June 13). “Inspire” Magazine: Al-Qaeda Claims its Online Rag Inspired Boston Bombing Attacks. PolicyMic
Safouane, H. (2013, June 5). How Syria’s Civil War threatens to destabilize the entire Middle East. PolicyMic
Safouane, H. (2013, May 21). Ansar Al-Sharia: violent protests rock Tunisia, could an Islamic insurgency be far behind? PolicyMic
Safouane, H. (2013, May 13). Europe unemployment: 55% of Millennials are now unemployed in Spain. PolicyMic
Safouane, H. (2013, April 26). North Korea news: war is more likely to come from the South, not from the North. PolicyMic
Safouane, H. (2013, April 24). Earth Day 2013: trying to save Earth a great disservice. PolicyMic
Safouane, H. (2013, April 24). Venezuela news: aftermath of election continues to roil the country. PolicyMic
Vorträge
17 – 19. September 2020: 3. Konferenz des Netzwerks Fluchforschung (online) „Kontexte von Flucht, Schutz und Alltag Geflüchteter“
- Title of the Presentation: “On Extractivist Migration Studies: Toward a Critique of Cultural Capital Accumulation in Social Sciences” with Dr. Nader Talebi (Humboldt Uni. zu Berlin)
24 – 26. Juni 2019: British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference (BRISMES): “Joining the Dots: Interdisciplinarity in Middle East Studies,” University of Leeds, England.
- Title of the Presentation: “Addressing the vulnerabilization of forced migrants during the migratory journey: discussing the feasibility of the collectivizing the international provision of protection” with Dr. Nicolas Fromm (HSU) and Dr. Sabith Khan (California Lutheran University).
25 – 26 May 2019: 6th Annual International Conference on Social Sciences: “Migration in Morocco and Beyond: From Local to Global Dynamics.” Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco.
- Presentation title: “Between a rock and a hard place: Group asylum and the future of stateless people.”
4 – 5 April 2019: Interdisziplärer Fachtagung “Integration und Konversion: Taufen muslimischer Flüchtlinge für Kirchen, Staat und Gesellschaft in Deutschland und Europa.” Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald und Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Deutschland.
- Presentation title: “Die Politik des Migrationschutzes in Deutschland und das Konzept der Gastfreundschaft.”
16 – 22 July 2018: Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain: “Migrants’ Journey Narratives and the Challenges to EU Migration and Asylum Policy: Policy :
- First Presentation titled: “From raw material to data: lessons from conducting in-depth interviews with refugees and
asylum seekers” - Second Presentation titled: “Migration-violence nexus: the case of migrant othering through epistemic violence”
23 – 24 March 2018: International Refugee Research: Evidence for Smart Policy an der Akademie für politische Bildung, Tutzing, Deutschland.
- Presentation title: “Migrants’ Journey Narratives and the Challenges to EU Migration and Asylum Policy: Policy Recommendations”
13 – 17. September 2017: 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International Studies Association (EISA), Barcelona, Spain.
- Panelist: “Borders and Boundaries in the Euro-Mediterranean Space.”
5 – 7. July 2017: British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference (BRISMES): Migration and Movement, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Presentation title: “Your name is refugee’”: Migrants’ Journey Narratives and the Challenge to the International Refugee Regime.”
12. December 2016: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg, Germany. Guest lecturer.
- Presentation title: “What are the discursive practices of migration and what are their impacts on migrants’ access to political membership in the recipient country?” (auf Einladung)
25 – 26. November 2016: Berlin-Istanbul Lecture Series: Urban Space and Refugees, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
- Presentation title: “Manufacturing Striated Space for Migrants: An Ethnography of Initial Reception Centers for Asylum Seekers in Germany.”
20– 26. June 2016: The Jean Monnet PhD Summer School, ‘Security and Justice in Europe’ University of Dundee, Scotland.
- Presentation title: “Theories of discourse analysis: the case of migration.”
27. February – 2. March 2014: 20th New Faces Conference, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Istanbul, Turkey, “Citizenship and Political Participation in the Mediterranean Region”.
- Vortrag des Arbeitspapiers: “The political stakes of Morocco’s debate on Moroccan Arabic.”
Lehre
Fall Trimester 2019: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung: Krieg (HSU)
Winter Trimester 2018: Theorie und Empirie der Internationalen Beziehungen: Einführung – Themen und Erklärungsansätze (HSU)
Fall Semester 2015: Transnational migration (Virginia Tech)
Spring Semester 2015: Introduction to Global Politics (Virginia Tech)
Fall Semester 2014: Selected World Problems (Virginia Tech)
Feldforschung
October 2018: Semi-structured interviews with refugees in al-Azraq and Zaatari refugee camps. Research in cooperation with Dr. Müller-Rentsch from the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (HIS) and
Yarmouk University (Jordan)
September 2016 – January 2017: Semi-structured interviews with migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan in Hamburg, Germany (Research approved by Virginia Tech’s ethics committee).
Mai 2016 – August 2016: Field observations in several reception centers for refugees and asylum seekers in Hamburg, Germany (Research approved by Virginia Tech’s ethics committee).
Letzte Änderung: 2. May 2025