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Tabea Scharrer

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST

Middle-class neighbourhood in the south of Nairobi inhabited by many Somalis @Tabea Scharrer

Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany (DFG-funded project at the University of Bayreuth, 2025-2027)

Statue in Bremerhaven dedicated to Germans having emigrated to America @Frederike Schmacht

Challenging the us and them: Rethinking Experiences of Outward Migration and Public Attitudes Towards Immigration in Europe? (Seed Funding from the British Academy, 2022-2023)

First snow after arriving in Europe

Baseline study on the situation and experiences of Somali migrants in Germany (Student research group at Leipzig University, 2017-2020)

Map of Somalia and Kenya @Jutta Turner, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle

Placemaking: Somali migrants in Kenyan cities (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2010-2016)

Wall painting with the topic of solidarity

Towards a Genealogy of Migrant Solidarities: East Germany as a Space of Postsocialist & Postcolonial Encounters (Seed-Funding from the British Academy, 2022-2023)

Car being stuck on top of a border wall while trying to drive over it

Technicisation of exclusionary practices in the context of migration (Research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2019-2023)

Shop selling headscarfs and underwear in Mombasa old town with the name 'Half London Shop' @Tabea Scharrer

Belonging nowhere or everywhere? Somalian return migrants in East Africa (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2017-2020)

Mosque in Kisumu @Tabea Scharrer

Islamic Missionary Movements in East Africa (ZMO Berlin, 2004-2009)

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