Team > Tabea Scharrer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair for Social Anthropology

Scientific career

• 2025 - 2027: Senior Researcher and Project Leader - Bayreuth University, Cultural and Social Anthropology Department
  
• 2024: Senior Researcher - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
  
• 2022 - 2023: Lecturer - Leipzig University, Institute of Anthropology
  
• 2021 - 2022: Writing Scholarship - Bayreuth University, Cluster of Excellence 'Africa Multiple'
  
• 2010 - 2020: Researcher - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
  
• 2009 - 2010: Lecturer - Free University Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
  
• 2006 - 2009: Doctoral Scholarship - Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
  
• 2004 - 2006: Research Assistant - Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
  

Current offices and functions

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair for Social Anthropology

Research areas

• (forced) migration, socio-economic inequality, and religion (esp. Islam)
• Kenya, Tanzania, Germany, and Austria
• particpant observation, biographical research, narrative interviews, multi-sited research, archival research, social network analysis

Current research project: Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair for Social Anthropology

Publications

2025

Tabea Scharrer: Wie Migrationsabwehr und gefährliche Migrationsrouten zusammenhängen : Das Beispiel der Lösegeldschleusung in Libyen. In: Jochen Oltmer, Marcel Berlinghoff, Franck Düvell, Benjamin Etzold, Christine Lang, Andreas Pott (Hrsg.): Report Globale Flucht 2025. - Frankfurt am Main : Fischer, 2025. - S. 126-138.

2024

Tabea Scharrer, Laura Lambert, Stefan Millar, Mert Pekşen, Ville Laakkonen: Contested future-making in containment : temporalities, infrastructures and agency. In: Comparative Migration Studies, 12 (2024). - .
doi:10.1186/s40878-024-00413-z

2023

Markus Virgil Hoehne, Tabea Scharrer: Balancing inclusion and exclusion among Somali migrants in Germany. In: International Migration, 61 (2023). - S. 87-101.
doi:10.1111/imig.12856

Tabea Scharrer, Sawitri Saharso: Beyond ‘race’? : a rejoinder. In: Comparative Migration Studies, 11 (2023). - .
doi:10.1186/s40878-023-00330-7

Tabea Scharrer, Birgit Glorius, Olaf Kleist, Marcel Berlinghoff: Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung : Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. - Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2023.
doi:10.5771/9783748921905

Tabea Scharrer: Of Mukhalas and Magafe : Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa. In: The Annales of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 709 (2023). - S. 86-104.
doi:10.1177/00027162241246664

2022

Sawitri Saharso, Tabea Scharrer: Beyond race?. In: Comparative Migration Studies, 10 (2022). - .
doi:10.1186/s40878-021-00272-y

Tabea Scharrer: Creating an atmosphere of intellectual superiority : Islamic missionary work in Kenya as staged competition in a climate of religious diversity. In: Journal of Contemporary Religion, 37 (2022). - S. 203-222.
doi:10.1080/13537903.2022.2073029

Tabea Scharrer, Magdalena Suerbaum: Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge : Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48 (2022). - S. 4847-4864.
doi:10.1080/1369183X.2022.2123432

Christian Hunkler, Tabea Scharrer, Magdalena Suerbaum, Zeynep Yanasmayan: Spatial and social im/mobility in forced migration : revisiting class. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48 (2022). - S. 4829-4846.
doi:10.1080/1369183X.2022.2123431

2021

Tabea Scharrer, Chinwe Beneditte Ogbonna, Gerhild Perl: From Quarantine to Deglobalisation. In: Routed : Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine, 2021-02

2020

Tabea Scharrer: “It Is Better to Do Business in Africa than in Europe” : Socio-Economic Positionings among Business-Minded European Somalis Moving to Kenya. In: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 18 (2020). - S. 270-285.
doi:10.1080/15562948.2020.1773009

2019

Mobile Urbanity : Somali Presence in Urban East Africa. - Neil Carrier, Tabea Scharrer (Hrsg.). - New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
doi:10.1515/9781789202977

2018

Tabea Scharrer, David O'Kane, Lena Kroeker: Introduction : Africa’s Middle Classes in Critical Perspective. In: Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, Tabea Scharrer (Hrsg.): Middle Classes in Africa : Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. - S. 1-31.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62148-7_1

Middle Classes in Africa : Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges. - Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, Tabea Scharrer (Hrsg.). - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. - XIII, 376 S.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62148-7

Tabea Scharrer: “Ambiguous citizens” : Kenyan Somalis and the question of belonging. In: Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12 (2018). - S. 494-513.
doi:10.1080/17531055.2018.1483864

2013

Tabea Scharrer: Narrative Islamischer Konversion : Biographische Erzählungen konvertierter Muslime in Ostafrika. - Bielefeld : transcript, 2013.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair for Social Anthropology

Tabea Scharrer
DFG research "Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany" at the Chair for Social Anthropology

Universität Bayreuth
Building: Zapf Haus
Room: 4.2.30
Nürnberger Straße 38
​D-95447 Bayreuth

E-mail: Tabea.Scharrer@uni-bayreuth.de
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