Stefan Rother vertritt seit 1.September 2021 die Professur für Flucht, Migration und soziale Mobilität an der Universität der Bundeswehr München. Zuvor arbeitete er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Privatdozent am Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Im, Wintersemester 2019/20 war er Inhaber der Vertretungsprofessur für Internationale Politik an der Universität Freiburg. Er war research fellow am Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) und editorial manager des “International Quarterly for Asian Studies”. 2018 war Rother visiting professor im Political Science Department der University of the Philippines; 2019 leitete er die International Fellow Group “Migration, Mobility and Forced Displacement” am Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana.
Rother hat 2019 seine kumulative Habilitation „Multi-level Governance from below? Migrant Civil Society and the Democratisation of International Institutions” abgeschlossen und die venia legendi in Politikwissenschaft erhalten. Er ist seit 2009 Sprecher des Arbeitskreis Migrationspolitik in der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) und war langjähriges Vorstandsmitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Asienkunde (DGA). Rother hat umfassende Feldforschung in Südost- und Ostasien betrieben sowie teilnehmende Beobachtung bei zahlreichen Global-Governance-Foren und zivilgesellschaftlichen Parallelveranstaltungen auf der Ebene der Vereinten Nationen, ILO, ASEAN, EU und dem Weltsozialforum für Migration.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Transnationale Migration
- Soziale Bewegungen
- Global Governance
- Entwicklungspolitik
- Demokratisierung
- Regionale Integration
- Nicht-/post-westliche Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen
Online
Twitter: https://twitter.com/srother
Blog: www.gfmd-blog.com
Facebook-Gruppe: https://www.facebook.com/migrationanddemocracy
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=jCXTkd4AAAAJ&hl=de
Ausgewählte Publikationen
(volles Verzeichnis siehe unten)
Bücher:
Rother, Stefan (2022) Global Migration Governance from Below: Actors, Spaces, Discourses. Cham: Springer International Publishing; Imprint Palgrave Macmillan.
Hunger, Uwe /Rother, Stefan (2021) Internationale Migrationspolitik, Stuttgart: UTB.
Rezension in der FAZ: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/rezension-politisierungsschub-durch-migration-17412051.html
Kessler, Christl / Rother, Stefan (2016) Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Rother, Stefan [Hg.] (2016) Migration und Demokratie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Zeitschriftenartikel:
Rother, Stefan (2022) Global Migration Governance from below in times of COVID-19: Civil Society in „invited“ and „invented“ spaces , Comparative Migration Studies, (10), 1.
Rother, Stefan (2022) The “gold standard” for labour export? The role of civil society in shaping multi-level Philippine migration policies, Third World Quarterly, online first
Piper, Nicola / Rother Stefan (2021) Governing Regional Migration from the “Bottom Up”: a nodal approach to the role of transnational activist networks in Asia, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Rother, Stefan (2020) “The” or “A” leading organization in migration? IOM as an actor in global migration governance, MIGRACIÓN y DESARROLLO Vol 18 (34), pp. 137-159.
Also published in Spanish: ¿«La» o «Una» organización líder en migración? La oim como un actor en la gobernanza migratoria mundial
Rother, Stefan (2020) Migration Governance through Transnational Connectivity? The Asian Inter-Parliamentary Caucus on Labour Migration, Freiburg: Occasional Paper Series, Southeast Asia Group, No 46.
Piper, Nicola / Rother, Stefan (2020) Political Remittances and the Diffusion of a Rights-Based Approach to Migration Governance: the case of the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(6), pp. 1057-1071
Rother, Stefan /Steinhilper, Elias (2019) Tokens or Stakeholders in Global Migration Governance? The Role of Affected Communities and Civil Society in the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees, International Migration Vol. 57(6), pp. 243-257
Rother, Stefan (2019) The Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) as a venue of “state socialization”: A stepping stone for multi-level migration governance?, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45 (8), pp. 1285-1274.
Rother, Stefan (2018) Angry Birds of Passage. Migrant rights networks and counter-hegemonic resistance to global migration discourses, Globalizations 15(6), pp. 854-869.
Rother, Stefan (2018) ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour: A space for civil society in migration governance at the regional level? Asia Pacific Viewpoint 59(1), pp. 107-118.
Rother, Stefan (2017) Indonesian migrant domestic workers in transnational political spaces: agency, gender roles and social class formation, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43 (6), pp. 956-973.
Rother, Stefan (2015) Democratizing ASEAN through “Alternative Regionalism”? The ASEAN Civil Society Conference and the ASEAN Youth Forum, in ASIEN - The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 136 (July), pp. 98-119.
Rother, Stefan (2015) Civil Society and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia — An Introduction, in ASIEN - The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 136 (July), pp. 5-13.
Rother, Stefan / Piper, Nicola (2015) Alternative Regionalism from Below: democratising ASEAN’s migration governance, in International Migration, 53(3), pp 36-49.
Piper, Nicola / Rother, Stefan (2012) Let's Argue about Migration: advancing a right(s) discourse via communicative opportunities, in Third World Quarterly Vol.33 (9), pp. 1735–50.
Rother, Stefan (2012) Wendt meets East: ASEAN cultures of conflict and cooperation. in Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 47 (1), pp. 49–67.
Kurzbeiträge / Reports:
(2021): “ASEAN connectivity through labour migration? The role of migrant civil society for the Decent Work agenda”. ASEAN and Global Connections Paper Series, University of Cambridge.
(2021): Transnational Skills Partnerships between Ghana and Germany: "A "triple-win" solution?, AMMODI Policy Note https://ammodi.com/2021/06/07/transnational-skills-partnerships-between-ghana-and-germany-a-triple-win-solution/ (With Susanne Schultz and Mary Setrana)
(2021): “Transnational Skills Partnerships between Ghana and North Rhine-Westphalia. An Exploratory Study Commissioned by the Mercator Foundation”. Freiburg: ABI (with Mary Setrana)
(2021): “Participation in times of zoomification. What opportunities did civil society have to participate in the virtual Global Forum on Migration and Development? FES-Themenportal Flucht, Migration, Integration. https://www.fes.de/en/displacement-migration-integration/article-page-flight-migration-integration/participation-in-times-of-zoomification
(2020): „Migrants deserve better protection: The pandemic has grave consequences for migrants and refugees“ Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft (IPG). (mit Felix Braunsdorf)
https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/global/migrants-deserve-better-protection-4497/
(2016): Looking beyond ‘the refugee crisis’, can migrants be the new agents of democracy?, The Conversation, Democracy Future Series, https://theconversation.com/looking-beyond-the-refugee-crisis-can-migrants-be-the-new-agents-of-democracy-54167
(2016): „Migration und Entwicklung: Wohlstand für Alle“. Außenansicht, Süddeutsche Zeitung 26. Februar.