Mara Junge is a political scientist and research associate at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in Berlin. As part of her work at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy” at the University of Bremen, she contributes to project B04 “Causes of Inclusion and Exclusion: Welfare Rights of Immigrants in Global Comparison” and is a member of the Immigrant Social Rights Project (ImmigSR). 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 45 countries in five world regions for the years 1980-2021. Mara Junge is also an affiliated with the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and is pursuing a PhD on the interplay between migration regimes, welfare states, political systems, and civil society organizations. In her professional career and studies of political science at the Free University of Berlin, as well as the double master's degree "European Master in Labour Studies and Social Policy" at the University of Bremen and the University of Milan, Mara Junge focus was primarily on the social and labour rights situation of migrants in transnational contexts, as well as political theory and economics.
Research focus
- Social Policy & Inequality
- Migration regimes
- Methods of qualitative and quantitative social research
- Political Systems in comparative perspective
- Political Parties & Civil society