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Burmeister-Rudolph, Dr. Mira

Portrait von Mira Burmeister-Rudolph
Position at ABI:
Senior Researcher
E-mail:
mira.burmeister-rudolph [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-mira-burmeister-rudolph-86260734/
Areas of research:
Civil Society, (Labour) Migration, Inequality, Multi-level Governance, Labour and Social Rights, Transnationalism
Regional focus:
South Asia (India, Bangladesh); GCC countries, EU
Professional experience:
2025-2026
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2017-2019
Coordinator for Integration, City of Buxtehude, Germany
2016-2017
Coordinator for Refugees and Integration, Municipality of Schwieberdingen, Germany
2012-2013
Research Assistant, Center for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Education:
2019-2025
PhD in Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011-2015
M.A. International Migration and Intercultural Relations, University of Osnabrück, Germany
2013
M.A. Migration et Citoyenneté, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2007-2011
B.A. South Asian Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira. 2025. Reproducing and Reformulating Categories of Skill in Regional and Global Migration Governance: Evidence from India and Bangladesh. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(4): 763-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2404485 

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira. 2024. ““Do Good and Talk about it“: Informal Representation and Migrant Volunteers’ Mediation between Low-wage Labour Migrants and State Institutions in the GCC Countries.’’ Comparative Migration Studies, 12 (56). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00417-9 

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira. 2024. “Advancing Emigrants’ Rights in India: Strategies of Civil Society in Spaces for Engagement.” Globalizations, 21(8): 1574-1594. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2384147 

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira. 2023. “Policy Differentiation and the Politics of Belonging in India’s Emigrant and Emigration Policies.” Citizenship Studies, 27 (8): 1074-1097. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2244451 

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira. 2023. “A Transnational Social Contract: Social Protection Policies toward Non-Resident Keralites.” Migration Studies, 11 (2): 286–311. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad002 

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira. 2022. “A Transnational Social Contract: How the South Indian State of Kerala justifies Social Protection Policies towards Non-Resident Keralites.” IMI Working Paper Series, (172):1 – 36.