Maik Paap, M.A.

Maik Paap is a Research Associate and PhD candidate in the MeDiMi project “Migration and the Humanrightization of ‘Health’: Paradigms, Practices, and Conflicts”. He works primarily on discourses of human rights and migration in international organizations, with a focus on UN organizations. Maik Paap studied political science as a major and law as a minor for his bachelor’s degree at Leuphana University Lüneburg and deepened this combined interest in a master’s program in International Politics and International Law at Christian Albrecht University Kiel. During his studies, he worked for various associations on topics such as development cooperation (Viva con Agua de St. Pauli e.V.) and migration (Refuge Law Clinic Kiel e.V. and Refugee Law Clinics Deutschland e.V.). Within MeDiMi, Maik Paap is involved in the networking and cooperation of the Research Associates by establishing and co-leading the Section “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS). His research interests include access to human rights (human right to health) for refugees, human rights discourse in international relations, and the impact of climate change on law, politics and migration.

Contact: Maik.Paap@histor.med.uni-giessen.de