Staff
Ruth Vollmer
Researcher
bicc - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies
Ruth Vollmer
Researcher
Contact by phone
+49 228 91196-58
Biography
During her studies, Ruth Vollmer worked as a freelancer with the German Commission for UNESCO and later became a Research Associate with the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU EHS). In her Master thesis, she applied a critical discourse analysis approach to the press coverage on the second German integration summit.
Research profile
Qualitative, empirically-driven research on migration, return and reintegration including governance aspects.
- Return migration and reintegration, European migration policies and their de- and re-bordering effects, migrant organisations
Project involvement
Past projects
- Conference “Migration and Displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Security Migration Nexus II”
- African migrant organizations (MO) in North Rhine-Westphalia – Forms of organization and activities
- GMF transatlantic study team on climate-induced migration
- Research for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in select areas at the nexus between development and security
- Identity, Economy, Power Relations and External Interests: Old and New Challenges for Sudan and South Sudan"
- Geospatial intelligence in support of EU External Action
- Protected rather than protracted—Strengthening refugees and peace
- Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change
- Return and belonging (RE-MIG) - Notions of return after conflict-induced conflict
- Decentring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission and Return Policies in Europe and Beyond
From Osiris Portfolio