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Email: Janina.Stuerner@fau.de
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Janina Stürner is a research fellow at the Centre for Area Studies of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. She analyses migration governance in complex multi-level systems. Taking a bottom-up perspective, she focuses on city diplomacy, in particular the interaction between cities and European/international actors in the realization of the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees as well as in EU migration and integration policy-making. Furthermore, she develops research on the localization of the Global Compacts among equal partners in urban displacement contexts in Africa. Janina Stürner is a member of the working group on urban displacement of the Global Alliance for Urban Crises. She has been working on policy-oriented projects commissioned by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stiftung Mercator and Heinrich Böll Stiftung and has conducted a scenario building exercise and evaluation of the EU Urban Partnership on the Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees for the European Commission.
In her role as a voluntary tutor with Kiron Open Higher Education, she supports refugees studying political sciences, seizing this unique opportunity to discuss topics such as statehood, democracy and civil society leadership with students from all over the world.
Prior to joining the Centre for Area Studies, Janina Stürner worked as a refugee officer for the City of Stuttgart, where she conducted qualitative research and initiated a new refugee empowerment concept in cooperation with migrant and refugee organizations. Her current research is supported by her earlier experience in international policy development and consultation gained during internships at the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertelsmann Stiftung, and the German Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.
Janina Stürner holds a Franco-German master’s degree in International Relations with a special focus on migration policies and a Franco-German bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence and the University of Freiburg.
Research interest
- International and EU governance of migration and asylum in political multi-level systems
- City diplomacy
- Local actors in urban displacement contexts in Africa
- Migration and development
- Empowerment and human rights in protracted displacement situations
Publications
Journal Articles
- Stürner, Janina (2019): “Rethinking resettlement as a participatory strategy to empower refugees and hosting municipalities.” In: Erlanger Migrations- und Integrationsstudien 6, p. 5-48.
- Stürner, Janina; Bendel, Petra (2019): “A refugee tent does not come with canaries included”. In: Erlanger Migrations- und Integrationsstudien 6, p. 49-87.
- Stürner, Janina (2019): “Tailored to whom? – Envisaging refugees and host municipalities as central actors for sustainable resettlement”. In: Migration Policy Practice 10 (3), p. 9-13.
- Stürner, Janina; Bendel, Petra (2019): “The two-way ‘glocalisation’ of human rights or: How cities become international agents in migration governance”. In: Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG) 3(2), p. 215-239.
- Stürner, Janina (2019): „Wahrheit auf der Flucht? Potenzial und Engagement der syrischen Diaspora in Deutschland für Wahrheitsfindung, Dialog und Friedensförderung“. In: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte 13 (1), p. 133-156.
- Heimann, Christiane; Müller, Sandra; Schammann, Hannes; Stürner, Janina (2019): “Challenging the Nation-State from within: The Emergence of Transmunicipal Solidarity in the Course of the EU Refugee Controversy”. In: Social Inclusion, 7 (2), p. 208-218.
Policy Papers and Discussion Papers
- Stürner, Janina; Heimann, Christiane; Bendel, Petra; Schammann, Hannes (2020):
‘When Mayors make Migration Policy’: What role for cities in EU migration and integration policymaking? EPC Policy Brief. Brussels: European Policy Centre.
- Stürner, Janina and Heimann, Christiane (2020): Evaluation Report of the Urban Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees.
- Bendel, Petra; Schammann, Hannes; Heimann, Christiane; Stürner, Janina (2019): “A Local Turn for European Refugee Politics. Recommendations for Strengthening Municipalities and Local Communities in refugee and asylum policy of the EU”. Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
- Stürner, Janina (2017): „Bildungsangebote für Geflüchtete: Kommunale Koordinierung und Vernetzung am Beispiel Stuttgart“, In: Neises, Frank; Granato, Mona: Geflüchtete und berufliche Bildung. Wissenschaftliche Diskussionspapiere, Issue 187, Bonn: Federal Institute for Vocationale Education and Training.
- Stürner, Janina (2017): „(Vor)ankommen junger Geflüchteter in Stuttgart“, Stuttgart: City of Stuttgart.
- Muedin, Amy; Stürner, Janina (2014): „Migrants in Crisis Situations. Workshop Background Paper”, IOM New York Migration Series, New York: International Organization for Migration.
Blog Posts
- Stürner, Janina (2019): "Who could thrive where? Imagining resettlement as a cooperative mobility strategy”. Rethinking Refuge Blog, University of Oxford.
- Stürner, Janina (2019): "Lokale Expertise anerkennen – Partizipative Strategien in urbanen Fluchtsituationen". FluchtforschungsBlog, Netzwerk Fluchtforschung.
- Stürner, Janina (2019): “Partizipation und Ownership in Fluchtsituationen“ . FluchtforschungsBlog, Netzwerk Fluchtforschung.
- Bendel, Petra; Stürner, Janina (2018): "Europäische Asylstandards nicht gefährden!", In: 7. part of the series Flüchtlingsforschung gegen Mythen, FluchtforschungsBlog, Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung.
Commissioned Work
12.2019 – 02.2020: Academic Expertise “A new role for cities in global and regional migration governance?” Commissioned by Robert Bosch Stiftung.
05. – 09.2019: Evaluation of the EU Urban Partnership on the Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees 2016 – 2018. Commissioned by the European Commission and the City of Amsterdam.
07. – 12.2018: Policy Paper “A Local Turn for European Refugee Politics. Recommendations for Strengthening Municipalities and Local Communities in refugee and asylum policy of the EU”. Commissioned by Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
2018 – 2021: “When Mayors make Migration Policy”. Research project funded by Stiftung Mercator.
Organized Workshops
29.10.2019:“When Mayors make Migration Policy – From field research to policy-oriented recommendations for multi-level migration and integration governance”, European Policy Centre (EPC), Brussels.
10.04.2019: “From lost refugee agency in displacement to ownership for social and economic development? Workshop on (urban) displacement in host and transit countries”, Center for Area Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
22.11.2018: Workshop „Empowerment in der Zusammenarbeit mit Geflüchteten“, Conference Empowerment für Geflüchtete, FAU Integra, Forum für Integration und interkulturelle Kommunikation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Presentations
17. – 18.10.2019: „Suddenly, all politics is municipal?- An analysis of municipal bottom-up strategies in European and international migration governance“, research paper presentation, Workshop Cities and the Global Governance of Migration. An Under-Explored Link, European University Institute (EUI), Florence.
15.10.2019: „Potential von Kommunen bei der Aufnahme von Geflüchteten“, Symposium of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung RLP e.V. and the AK Asyl Flüchtlingsratn RLP e.V.
04. – 07.09.2019: „Cities in European Integration Governance. An Analysis of Multi-level Governance in the EU Urban Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees”, ECPR General Conference, University of Wrocław.
13. – 14.05.2019: “Your UNHCR issued tent does not come with canaries included”, policy paper presentation, Workshop Lost and gained on the way. Placing ‚transit‘ migration in Europe, Africa and Asia, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
10.04.2019: “Ownership statt Perspektivlosigkeit. Eine Diskussion unterschiedlicher Alternativen zu Camps”, Conference Städte statt Camps: Migration als Entwicklungschance? Center for Area Studies and Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
18.-19.03.2019: “Tailored to whom? Rethinking resettlement as participatory strategy to empower refugees and host communities”, policy paper presentation, Conference Democratizing Displacement, Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford.
14.03.2019: “Think global – act local! The Impact of Municipalities on EU-Migration Governance”, Meeting of the EU Urban Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees, Paris.
12.03.2019: „Wie werden Städte zu Akteuren in europäischer und internationaler Migrationspolitik?“ Conference Integrationspolitik im Fokus, Global Initiative on Health, Migration and Development, Freiburg.
13.02.2019: „Kommunen können das! EU-Migrationsgovernance durch kommunale Mitsprache voranbringen“, policy paper launch, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin.
11.12.2018: „Neue Akteure im Mehrebenensystem der europäischen und internationalen Migrationspolitik“, Studium Generale, Nuremberg.
26.11. – 28.11.2018: „The two-way ‘glocalisation’ of human rights or: How cities become international agents in migration governance“, Conference Cities, Territories and the Struggle for Human Rights: a 2030 perspective, University of Padova.
05.10. – 08.10.2018: „City Diplomacy against the Nation State? The rise of transnational city networks in EU migration politics“, Panel If Mayors Made Migration Policy: Der Nexus Kommune-Europäische Union in der Fluchtforschung, 2. Conference Netzwerk Fluchtforschung, Eichstätt.
12.07.2018: „The Project ‚When Mayors Make Migration Policy‘“, Conference Cities, Refugees and Human Rights, Center for Area Studies and Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
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