Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:

“Why it’s different?”: Hierarchies of (Non-) Belonging in German Refugee Categorizations (2025). Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. doi: 10.1080/15562948.2025.2529497
Differential inclusion in rights creates hierarchical levels of non-belonging, with the example of refugees’ rights to access the labor market in Germany.
Legal Status and Refugees’ Perceptions of Institutional Justice: The Role of Communication Quality, with Anton Nivorozhkin (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, IAB) (2024). Public Administration Review. doi: 10.1111/puar.13898
Refugees with an insecure legal status report poorer experiences of procedural justice at bureaucratic agencies; interactions with street-level bureaucrats partially mediate the relationship between legal status and procedural justice.
Bureaucracy as Borders: Refugees’ Experiences of Citizenship at Government Offices (2024), doctoral thesis, Hertie School.
Determinants of Welfare Use of Immigrant Groups - Longitudinal Evidence from Germany (2022). Frontiers in Sociology, Sec. Migration and Society (7), Special Issue: ”The Integration Context of Refugees and Immigrants: Challenges and Opportunities in the Receiving Countries” (edited by Jasper Tjaden and Zerrin Salikutluk). doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.839352

Beyond their years: Unaccompanied minors and the social construction of categories (2023). Culture, Practice & Europeanization 8 (2), p. 264-266. doi: 10.5771/2566-7742-2023-2-264

Paper Walls: Administrative Burden and the Unequal Inclusion of Refugees
Dissertation project demonstrating how refugees with a precarious legal status in Germany experience systematically greater administrative burdens when accessing welfare state resources, resulting in differential inclusion in social rights.
Penny for Your Thoughts: The Income Divide in Media Effects on Immigration Attitudes
Paper for the Migration & Sozialstaat project, combining quantitative text analysis of newspaper content with regression analysis of public opinion data. Results demonstrate that high-income individuals, while they hold more positive immigration attitudes overall, are more likely to hold somewhat more negative attitudes at times of high media salience.
Not in My Backyard: Unraveling Local Dynamics of Welfare Chauvinism
Paper for the Migration & Sozialstaat project utilizing survey data to analyze welfare use and attitudes at the local district level. Regression results demonstrate a relationship between refugee population size and attitudes, but no link between refugees’ welfare use and attitudes.

A Causal Link Between Receiving the Asylum Decision and Mental Health, with Jan Paul Heisig (WZB)
Family Reunification and Mental Health
Multimorbidity of Immigrant Groups, with Lara Bister and Alessandro Ferrara (WZB)

Vulnerabilities Beyond Age - Filling the gaps in asylum hearing procedures for unaccompanied minors, policy brief for the EU Horizon 2020 project VULNER