Dr. Friederike Römer
Co-Head of Consensus & Conflict Department Consensus and Conflict Department
E-mail: roemer(at)dezim-institut.de fon: 0049 (0) 30-200754-402Dr. Friederike Römer is a sociologist working on topics at the intersection of policy studies, migration research and comparative welfare state research. She studied at the University of Mannheim and Indiana University Bloomington and received her phd from Humboldt University in 2017. As a junior researcher she worked at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in the research group “Immigration Policies in Comparison” (IMPIC) and in the department "Inequality and Social Policy". She also worked as a postdoc at the University of Hamburg and the University of Bremen. In 2019/2020 she was John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard.
As part of her dissertation, she developed a conceptualization of the social rights of migrants for the IMPIC project. From this, the "Immigrant Social Rights Project" (ImmigSR) emerged, which is part of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center "Global Development Dynamics of Social Policy" at the University of Bremen. As part of this project, a multidimensional de jure policy data set is created, which contains information on social rights by residence category. The dataset includes items on access to social assistance, unemployment insurance, child benefits, social pensions, and employment injury insurance for 48 countries in five world regions for the years 1980-2021.
In her research, Dr. Friederike Römer investigates the causes for processes of inclusion and exclusion of immigrants in national welfare states. Particular attention is paid to the role of political parties and civil society actors. Using global comparison she studies how political systems structure civil society actors’ possibilities to exert influence. Furthermore, she examines the effects of differences in social rights on life chances and the risk of poverty.
Research focus
- Immigrant Social Rights
- Inequality and Social Policy
- Civil Society and Political Parties
- Quantitative Methods