Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Geography Department

Research Projects

  • 2014-2016: Postdocprojekt “Selling (off) Diversity: The Governance of Ethnic Business Districts in Transatlantic Comparison”, funded by the P.R.I.M.E. program (Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience) of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), to be conducted at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M. (Prof. Robert Pütz) and Ryerson University Toronto (Prof. Harald Bauder)

  • since 2011: Habilitation project on migration and urban development, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 2007-2010: PhD-Dissertation: „Transnationality as a resource? Analysis of Vietnamese migrants’ social and economic networks in the transnational space between Berlin and Vietnam” (Disputation:  11th August, 2010); funded by Universität Bremen and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
  • 2006: Diploma thesis: „Vietnamese migrants between Berlin and Hanoi. The influence of remittances on the emergence of transnational social spaces“, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin; Funded by Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (Geographical Society Berlin)