Lea Müller-Funk
Lea Müller-Funk is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. She will join the MAGYC project in September 2019 as part of the GIGA Hamburg team. Her Marie Curie project SYRMAGINE (2017-2019) focuses on living conditions of Syrian refugees in two of Syria’s neighbouring countries (Lebanon and Turkey) and their mobility aspirations. As part of the MAGYC project, she will mainly contribute to the work package Comparing crises: Lessons from “migration crises” in North Africa, the Middle East and the Greater Horn of Africa.
Lea has a background in Comparative Politics and Arabic Studies. Between 2016 and 2017, she was an OxPo post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Before that, Lea was a PhD researcher at the Centre Internationale des Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po Paris (2012-2016) and a junior researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Near Eastern Studies at Vienna University (2011-2016). Her core research interests include diaspora politics, political remittances, mobility aspirations in contexts of displacement, as well as migration and refugee policies in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. She has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, France and Austria. Lea’s PhD (Sciences Po Paris and Vienna University) dealt with Egyptian diaspora activism in Paris and Vienna during and after the Arab Uprisings.
