Scientific education

Karl Heyer holds an M.Sc. in Geography and is a scholarship holder in the doctoral programme "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen" from April 2017. Previously, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Geography at the University of Göttingen from April to October 2016 (GIS consulting). He is a member of the Critical Migration and Border Regime Research Network (kritnet).

Project outline

Migrant spatial knowledge and border formations

What role do spatiality(ies) and (migrant) knowledge production about spaces play in the formation of borders? Central to this are, on the one hand, the narrativisation of migrant spatial knowledge and, on the other hand, its concrete forms and manifestations. This perspective allows us to look both at structural aspects such as questions about the transmission of knowledge and at related materialities such as (technical and other) tools and places. Based on the concept of ethnographic border regime analysis, the work utilises approaches from multi-sited ethnography and critical cartography.