Mara Junge is a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1342 at the University of Bremen in project B04 "Causes of Inclusion and Exclusion: Immigrant Welfare Rights in Global Comparison". The project analyses the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion of immigrants in national welfare states in the Global South and Global North, constructing a comparative longitudinal dataset on immigrant social rights. Furthermore, she is writing a dissertation on the interplay between migration regimes, welfare states, political systems, and civil society organizations advocating for immigrant rights. Additionally, her work includes an exploration of discursive practices of representation within the landscape of migration narratives. Mara Junge is a guest researcher at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in Berlin. 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, her 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