Current research projects
The Management of Loss: Politics of Life and Death in Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Funded by: DFG (duration: 2022-2025)
Subproject B04 Providers and recipients of help. Human categorization between solidarity and differentiation in Portugal and Brazil Sonderforschungsbereich 1482 „Humandifferenzierung“, JGU Mainz. Funded by: DFG (duration:2021-2025).
With Prof. Dr. Antje Missbach (Universität Bielefeld): Migration and Im/Mobility in the Global South during a Global Pandemic (DFG network)
Funded by: DFG (duration: 2021-2024).
Politics and practices of eligibility in Brazilian humanitarian bureaucracies
Funded by: Heisenberg programme DFG (duration since 3/2015, since 6/2016 continued as Heisenberg professorship)
African trajectories across Central America: displacements, transitory emplacements, and ambivalent migration nodes
Funded by: DFG (duration: 2018-2023)
Completed research projects
African displacements and emplacements across Latin America
Funded by: Förderstufe 1 der JGU (duration 2017-2018)
Mobility, social inequality and the affirmation or erosion of solidarity in transnational Cape Verdean families
Post-doc project, Institut für Ethnologie, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Funded by: (Fieldwork) post-doc scholarship DAAD (duration: 2006-2011)
Spirits in the diaspora. Haitian discourses on gender, youth and power in Montreal, Canada
PhD project, Institut für Vergleichende Kulturforschung (Völkerkunde) Philipps-University Marburg
Funded by: Promotionsstipendium des Landes Hessen (duration: 4/2001-8/2004)