Tabea Scharrer is a social anthropologist working on migration, inequality and religion. She is Lecturer at Leipzig University, Habilitandin at the University of Bayreuth and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Tabea has conducted research in refugee camps in Tanzania, about Islamic missionary movements in East Africa and with Somali migrants in Kenyan urban areas and in several European cities. Her publications include the monograph Narrative islamischer Konversion: Biographische Erzählungen konvertierter Muslime in Ostafrika (transcript, 2013) and two co-edited volumes on Middle Classes in Africa (Palgrave, 2018) and on Mobile Urbanity. Somali Urban Presence in East Africa (Berghahn, 2019). Currently she is working on a Handbuch Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung (Nomos, 2023). She is member of the editorial board of Comparative Migration Studies.