Maria Ullrich is Postdoc Fellow in the research group "ZivDem" based at FIW and the University of Münster (funded by Gerda Henkel Foundation), which analyzes the involvement of civil society actors in the Mediterranean border regime. She is a social scientist and her research focuses on citizenship, migration, and borders in contemporary Europe,

Maria Ullrich studied European Studies and Political Science at the Universities of Passau, Bonn, and Naples. After graduating in 2016, she first worked as a research assistant at the Center for Development Research in Bonn and from 2017 to 2020 as a research fellow at the University of Siegen in teaching and research. She wrote her doctoral thesis (in German) at the University of Siegen on "Participation of Refugees. Civil Society Negotiations in the German Reception Context".

Research Focus
Migration and Border Studies | Citizenship Studies | Ethnographic Methods