Leonie van Dreuten
Leonie van Dreuten
Doctoral project
(Un)Moving files. Digital data practices as a challenge for German migration authorities
Abstract
The planned doctoral project aims to examine and localise digital practices and strategies for the administration, use and processing of data in the asylum procedure from a praxeological-ethnographic perspective. The research project focuses on "data practices" of the transcription and digitisation of migration biographies during the personal interview at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). Digitalisation proves to be both a benchmark for successful professionalisation, a challenge to everyday practice and a threat to socially embedded interaction. This is particularly evident in the individual examination in the asylum procedure and the associated classification and depersonalisation of refugees as well as the formalisation of their data. The future ideas of managed co-operation and conviviality that come to the fore here are emphasised. Therefore, the PhD project aims to address how digitalisation initiatives transform current administrative and classification work in German migration authorities and how these new digital "data practices" affect informal strategies of refugees. Which implementations and information technologies are used by different actors in an attempt to utilise digital and bureaucratic practices?
Short biography
since 10/2020
Scholarship holder in the MWK doctoral programme 'Shaping the Future. Transformation of the present through scenarios of digitalisation' at the University of Oldenburg
10/2015 - 09/2019
Participation in the Research Master Programme of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne
04/2015 - 09/2019
M.A. Ethnology at the University of Cologne
10/2011 - 03/2015
B.A. Media and Communication Studies and Ethnology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Teaching
10/2019 - 03/2020
Tutorial for the seminar "Field Research in Museums", Prof. Dr Martin Zillinger, Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne
04 - 09/2019
Tutor in the seminar "Methods of Media Anthropology", Dr des. Anja Dreschke at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Cologne
Lectures/Publications
10/2020
"Keeping escape routes clear. Spaces of arrival at the time of the migration movement 2015/16", Kölner Ethnologische Beiträge (in preparation)
05/2016
Co-lecture and audio-visual presentation with Prof Dr Martin Zillinger: "Migration Menschen
in Bewegung" at Allerweltshaus Köln, event series "Wissenschaft in Kölner Häusern
- Kölner wissen mehr"
Other scientific activities
08/2015 - 03/2017
Research Assistant at the CRC "Media of Co-operation", Digital Public Spheres and Social Transformation in the Maghreb, University of Cologne and University of Siegen
04/2017 - 09/2020
Research Assistant at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne and at the Research Lab "Transformation of Life" of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne