Dr. Laura Holderied

Laura Holderied is a postdoctoral researcher in MeDiMi’s coordination unit in which she contributes to synthesizing the research of the group and to the overall project’s theory building. Hereby, she is particularly interested in the politics and politicization of human rights and the production of inclusions/exclusions in migration societies. Prior to that, Laura was a Senior Research Associate at the UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn as well as a guest researcher and external lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen teaching in the field of EU migration and border politics. Laura completed her PhD as a stipend-holder in the PhD program “Boundary Formations in Migration Societies” at University of Oldenburg in 2021 with a dissertation on the role of images in the context of migration and border politics.  Laura’s research interests lie at the intersections of (critical) migration and border studies, visual politics, and visual and interpretative international relations. She is particularly interested in social and political conflicts about mobility, rights, and inclusion/exclusion in migration societies and the role of images, visual discourses, and in/visibilities in these struggles. In her research, Laura combines visual methodologies with discourse analysis, digital ethnography, and narrative interviews. Laura’s research has been published in Cooperation and Conflict and a Leviathan special issue on Democracy and Migration among others. Her book “Visual Border Politics. Images and Migration Governance in Europe” is forthcoming at Routledge (Interventions Series).

Contact: Laura.Holderied@recht.uni-giessen.de