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Biographical Note

Prof. Dr. Judith Miggelbrink (SFB 1199 & Technical University Dresden)

Judith Miggelbrink, born 1966, holds the chair of human geography at TU Dresden. She leads the DFG funded project »(In-)Security issues at the Schengen border. Security practices of state and non-state actors at the German-Polish border« and is member of the collaborative research centre 1199 »Spatialization under the Global Condition«. Her research focuses, inter alia, on peripherialization, security and borders as well as on globalized medical practices.

Dorit Happ (University for Economy and Law Berlin)

Dorit Happ is a political scientist focusing on Eastern European affairs. Since 2018 she has been working on the project entitled “INTAA: work and training as an integration field for refugees – opportunities, obstacles, and perspectives for action” at FÖPS Berlin. Previously, she conducted research at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Studies on security policy discourse and EU practices in Eastern Europe. She is currently completing her doctorate on the subject of external migration and asylum policy and the integration of refugees in Belarus and Ukraine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In Berlin she also works as a lecturer at the Institute of Geography.