Catharina Peeck-Ho

Biography

Catharina Peeck-Ho is a lecturer at the Institute for Social Sciences at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2017. Her research focuses on citizenship, especially struggles for citizenship rights and belonging, transnational migration, race, and gender.

Peeck-Ho's research project at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) examines strategies for dealing with irregular migration in urban spaces. By comparing U.S. sanctuary cities and European solidarity cities, the project examines the conditions under which migrants get access to rights at the local level and the consequences of the associated policies for current citizenship regimes. The goal of the project is to identify criteria that are crucial for the success or failure of policies for the local incorporation of immigrants. From a theoretical point of view, the project aims to gain new insights into the transformation of citizenship against the backdrop of social change and with special reference to relations between state and civil society as well as the relationship between cities, nation states and other scales of the citizenship regime.

This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.