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Tabea Scharrer

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Dr. Tabea Scharrer

Research associate in the DFG-Project: "Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany"                                                              

E-Mail: tabea.scharrer@uni-bayreuth.de

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Profile

Scientific career

  • 2025 - 2027: Senior Researcher and Project Leader - Bayreuth University, Cultural and Social Anthropology Department
  • 2024: Senior Researcher - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
  • 2022 - 2023: Lecturer - Leipzig University, Institute of Anthropology
  • 2021 - 2022: Writing Scholarship - Bayreuth University, Cluster of Excellence 'Africa Multiple'
  • 2010 - 2020: Researcher - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
  • 2009 - 2010: Lecturer - Free University Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • 2006 - 2009: Doctoral Scholarship - Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
  • 2004 - 2006: Research Assistant - Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin


Current offices and functions
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS)

Research areas

  • (forced) migration, socio-economic inequality, and religion (esp. Islam)
  • Kenya, Tanzania, Germany, and Austria
  • particpant observation, biographical research, narrative interviews, multi-sited research, archival research, social network analysis

Current research project: Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany

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Profile

Scientific career

  • 2025 - 2027: Senior Researcher and Project Leader - Bayreuth University, Cultural and Social Anthropology Department
  • 2024: Senior Researcher - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
  • 2022 - 2023: Lecturer - Leipzig University, Institute of Anthropology
  • 2021 - 2022: Writing Scholarship - Bayreuth University, Cluster of Excellence 'Africa Multiple'
  • 2010 - 2020: Researcher - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
  • 2009 - 2010: Lecturer - Free University Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • 2006 - 2009: Doctoral Scholarship - Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
  • 2004 - 2006: Research Assistant - Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin


Current offices and functions
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS)