Bastian Vollmer is a Research Officer at COMPAS, primarily working on the Eumagine project. He is a member of the Flows and Dynamics, Citizenship and Belonging, and Welfare research clusters and worked previously on the Clandestino project.
His main research interests are migration processes (particularly irregular and transit migration); discursive formations of policy-making; control mechanisms and securitization regimes of migration.
He was educated at Cambridge University and at the University of Amsterdam. He has an MPhil in International Relations and a PhD in Social Sciences. In the past, he held a research position at the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research where he conducted two research projects funded by the European Commission.
Current projects:
Eumagine
Fundamental rights situation of irregular immigrants in the European Union (FRIM)
Selected Publications:
Vollmer, B. (forthcoming 2013), Ukraine - Modern Era Migrations, in Ness, I. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, New York: Wiley-Blackwell
Vollmer, B., (2012) 'Making light of borders: The case of the external EU border' in Migration Letters, Volume 9 (2): 131-140
Vollmer, B., (2011) Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in the EU - 'Number Games' and 'Political Games', in Special Issue, European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 13(3): 317- 339
Franck Düvell, Bastian Vollmer (2011), European Security Challenges. EU-US Immigration Systems, Florence: European University Institute/Robert-Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
Vollmer, B. (forthcoming 2013) 'Security and Identity', in Palmiotto, M. (ed.), Encyclopedia of International Security Studies, Washington D.C.: Sage.
Vollmer, B., Düvell, F., Triandafyllidou, A. (2010), Ethical Issues in Irregular Migration Research in Europe, Population, Space and Place Volume 16 (3): 227-239.
Vollmer, B. (2010), Irregular Migration in the UK - Dichotomised Discourses and Changing Landscapes, in Triandafyllidou, A. (ed.) Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Vollmer, B. and Lindley, A. (2010), 'Migration', in Fagan, H. and Muck, R. (eds), Globalisation and Security: An Encyclopedia, New York and Washington D.C.: Praeger.