Scientific education

Scholarship holder of the doctoral programme "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen" since May 2017; member of IMIS since September 2018. Simon Sperling studied Social Work (BA) at the KSFH Munich and Political Science (Diplom) at the HfP Munich.

Project outline

Residence conditions and opportunities in the mirror of everyday practices

The research project examines the negotiation of asylum in the context of local migration regimes. In a federal state comparison, various key municipal and civil society actors will be questioned about their specific everyday challenges. A particular interest lies in the question of how local actors deal with different residence conditions and opportunities and which dynamics result from their interaction.

Supervisor: Jun. Prof. Dr Jannis Panagiotidis

Differential inclusion, classifications, migration and border regimes, political sociology, political theory