Susanne Willers, MSc

Susanne Willers

Research interests

(Transit) migration

Gender relations and violence

Forced migration and refugee protection

Care in the context of transnational families

Qualitative methods

Further information

Curriculum Vitae

Current position

since 2022

Research Associate (Postdoc) in the project "GEN-MIGRA: Gender, mobilities and migration during and post COVID-19 pandemic- vulnerability, resilience and renewal" at the Department of Sociology of Migration, Faculty of Social Sciences (Fac. 17), Technical University Dortmund

Education

05/2018	PhD in Political and Social Sciences from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico, with the research thesis: Migración transnacional, género y violencia: Las experiencias de mujeres migrantes Centroamericanas en México. Awarded "mención honorífica" and the Cátedra Jorge Durand Prize for Best Dissertation on Transit Migration 2018.
02/2008	Diploma in Sociology at the FU- Berlin, with focus on Sociology of Development and Political Sociology, Ethnology and Political Science, Thesis on Transnational Migration of Indigenous Communities to the USA at the Latin American Institute (LAI).
2002-2003	DAAD- scholarship holder, study of sociology at the UAM-Iztapalapa, Mexico-City

Academic Career

10/2021- 12/2021	Research Assistant at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 09/2018-12/2020 Member of the post-doctoral research group of the Seminario Universitario de Estudios sobre Desplazamiento Interno Migración Exilio y Repatriación (SUDIMER), UNAM.
09/2018- 11/2019	Research Associate (Post-Doc) at the Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades (CEIICH), UNAM.
02/2014- 12/2018	Member of the research group "Entre dos fuegos" at CIESAS, Mexico.
02/2015- 05/2015	Visiting fellow with Prof. Luis E. Guarnizo at the University of California, Davis
08/2011- 05/2018	PhD student at the Posgrado de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, Mexico
06/2010- 01/2011	Project Assistant at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Mexico City
09/2008- 09/2009	Research assistant at NGO GEA- Grupo de Estudios Ambientales for Rural Sustainable Development in Guerrero, Mexico and scholarship holder of the German-Mexican cooperation program of InWent/ CONACYT.
06/2008-11/2008	Research assistant at LAI, FU-Berlin with PD Marta Zapata

Networks

Member of the Netzwerk Fluchtforschung, IMISCOE, ADLAF Junior Research Group & IASFM

Publications

A selection

Willers, S. (2020). Changing mobility regimes and care: Central American women confronting processes of entrapment in southern Mexico. Special Issue: Families confronting borders The Journal of Family Research, 32(3), 455-472.

Willers, S. (2020). Régimen migratorio y género: la movilidad e inmovilidad de refugiadas centroamericanas como un recurso de sobrevivencia In L. Gandini (Ed.), Temas y aproximaciones actuales para el estudio de las migraciones y movilidades en las Américas (pp. 137-165). Ciudad de México: SDI, SUDIMER, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Willers, Susanne (2019). Confrontar la violencia. Proyectos migratorios y estrategias de sobrevivencia de mujeres migrantes centroamericanas en México. En: Asakura, Hiroko (Ed.) Entre dos fuegos. Normalización e invisibilidad de la violencia contra mujeres migrantes en México.

Willers, Susanne (2018). Migration and Reproductive Strategies of Central American Women in Transit through Mexico. Special issue: The Social Reproductive Worlds of Migrants. Journal of Family Studies 24 (1), 59-75. doi:10.1080/13229400.2017.1398102

Willers, Susanne (2016). Migración y violencia: las experiencias de mujeres migrantes centroamericanas en tránsito por México, en: Sociológica, año 31, septiembre-diciembre de 2016: 163-195.

Contact information

Susanne Willers

Dortmund University of Technology
Faculty 17 Social Sciences
Emil-Figge-Str. 50
44227 Dortmund

E-Mail: susanne.willerstu-dortmundde