Bastian Vollmer
Research Officer and Leverhulme Fellow
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Bastian Vollmer is a Research Officer and Leverhulme Fellow at COMPAS. He is a member of the Flows and Dynamics, Citizenship and Belonging, and Welfare research clusters.
His main research interests are migration processes (particularly irregular and transit migration); control mechanisms and securitization regimes of migration; border theory; discourse theory and discourse analysis.
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:
Border security: discourses and practices in the UK
Access to territory, border management and protection of refugees project
Signals from the majority – paradoxes of integration
Previous Projects:
Eumagine - Imagining Europe from the Outside
Fundamental rights situation of irregular immigrants in the European Union (FRIM)
Clandestino - Undocumented Migration. Counting the Uncountable -Trends and Data Across Europe
Selected Publications:
Vollmer, B. (forthcoming 2013), Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan.
Vollmer, B. (forthcoming 2013) 'Security and Identity', in Palmiotto, M. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of International Security Studies, Washington D.C.: Sage.
Vollmer, B. (2013) 'Ukraine, migration, early 20th century to present', 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
Düvell, F. and Vollmer, B. (2011), European Security Challenges. EU-US Immigration Systems, Florence: European University Institute/Robert-Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
Vollmer, B. (2011) 'Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in the EU - 'Number Games' and 'Political Games'', European Journal of Migration and Law, 13(3): 317- 39. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1163/157181611X587874
Düvell, F., Triandafyllidou, A. and Vollmer, B. (2010), 'Ethical Issues in Irregular Migration Research in Europe', Population, Space and Place, Volume 16 (3): 227-239.
Affiliations
HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance
European University Viadrina
International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna (ICMPD)
International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE) Network