Claudia Tazreiter

Professor

My research extends to the fields of sociology, social theory, race, ethnicity, migration and gender.

In these fields, my research utilises ethnographic, visual, qualitative and mixed methods to reveal the impacts of forced and irregular migration on human rights culture, the role of civil society in social change, and gender in migration.

Culture and belonging are key conceptual and empirical concerns of my research, grounded in engagement with state and non-state actors and researchers in the Asia-Pacific and globally. I serve on the Board of the Research Committee on Race, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity (RC05) of the International Sociological Association. I also serve as the Communications Secretary for the same research committee.

I served as editor in chief of The Australian Journal of Human Rights 2011-2018. I launched and co-convene the interdisciplinary Forced Migration Research Network at UNSW that has generated local and international research collaborations and impact. I have held visiting appointments at the Institute for Political Science, University Vienna (2018), Center for Place, Culture and Politics, City University New York CUNY (2014) and the Centre for International Studies (CERI) Science Po (2011) and I am a fellow at the Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University Osnabrück. I am a Board Member of the Academy in Exile, Free University Berlin & Duisburg-Essen University.

Teaching Experience

I have over eighteen years teaching experience at undergraduate, honours, and postgraduate levels in key curriculum in anthropology, sociology, social theory and global studies.

Teaching responsibility and course design for core sociology and anthropology curriculum and specialist courses in race and migration, citizenship and human rights.

CV

Qualifications

BA (Hons, 1st Class) Sociology 1997 (UNSW)
PhD Sociology, October 2002 (UNSW), thesis title: ‘Strangers at our door, asylum seekers, non-government organisations and the state : a comparative study of German and Australian protection regimes in the 1990s’.
Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching, 2008 (UNSW)

Previous Academic Appointment and experience

Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology UNSW. Appointed January 2004 with full tenure - 2020.
Deputy Head of School, Research, School of Social Sciences UNSW–2016/17
Deputy Head of School, Learning and Teaching, School of Social Sciences UNSW– 2008-2010

Professional Activities

Board Member, Academy in Exile, Free University Berlin/Duisburg-Essen University
Editor in Chief, Australian Journal of Human Rights, 2011-2018.
Board Member and Secretary, Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism Indigeneity and Ethnicity (RC05) of the International Sociological Association, 2014-2018, and 2018-2022, Communications Secretary of RC05 since election of the Board in July 2018.
Steering Committee Member of the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, since 2013
Management Committee Member, Gilbert and Tobin Centre for Public Law, 2011 ongoing
Research Associate, Australian Centre for Human Rights, UNSW
Associate and former Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Migration Research and Inter-cultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabruck, Germany.
Member, International Sociological Association
- Board Member (elected 2018) & communications secretary RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity
- Board Member (elected 2014) Research Committee 05 – Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity
- Program Committee Member, Thematic Group – 03 Human Rights and Social Justice
- Member, Research Committee 31 – Sociology of Migration
- Member, Research Committee 16 – Sociological Theory
Member, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration

Publications

2024

Claudia Tazreiter (2024) An End to Refugee Protection?The New Global Carceral Archipelagos of Exclusion and Possibilities for Alternative Futures Deter, Detain, Dehumanise: The politics of seeking asylum, p. 143-156 (Chapter in book)

2023

Claudia Tazreiter (2023) The Migrant and Marginalized Body in Connection with Digital Technologies as a Prosthesis of the Monstrous Filozofski vestnik (Tiskana izd.), Vol. 44, p. 199-216 (Article in journal)

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Claudia Tazreiter, Omid Tofighian, Behrouz Boochani (2023) Spectres of subjugation/inter-subjugation/resubjugation of people seeking asylum: the kyriarchal system in Australia's necropoleis Regulating Refugee Protection Through Social Welfare: Law, Policy and Praxis, p. 68-90 (Chapter in book)

Claudia Tazreiter (2023) Emotion, Responsibility and Hope for Different Futures Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani, p. 208-210 (Chapter in book)

2022

Claudia Tazreiter (2022) Visual and sensory stimuli, memories and uncanny connections X-ist, p. 23-26 (Chapter in book)

Research

Man in refugee camp behind the Belgrade Central Station

Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society - REMESO

The institute conducts research with a multilevel approach to the understanding of migration, ethnicity and society.

News

Claudia Tazreiter at the Norrköping campus.

LiU professor guiding the way in the work of academic freedom

What is academic freedom and how does it correspond to freedom of speech? When does freedom of speech become hate speech? How can Linköping University help and protect international scholars who are at risk?

A picture of a woman standing up and holding a lecture in Studenthuset

“The trauma of war is hereditary”

The trauma of war does not disappear when weapons are laid down and peace declared. It lives on, literally, through the body and between generations. This is what researcher Claudia Tazreiter said in a new seminar series.

Culture and Belonging in focus

“Migration studies is not only about movement and border crossing, but can teach us about home, staying put, about the value of community and of place”, says Claudia Tazreiter, professor of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Organisation

Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO)

REMESO pursues research and education on transnational migration, ethnic diversity and citizenship in relation to changes in labour and welfare.

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.