// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Immigrant Integration, Social Trust and Political Support: The Role of Immigration Policies.

Stephan’s dissertation deals with the question how immigration policies affect the behaviour and attitudes of immigrants and non-immigrants. More specifically, he examines to what extend the selection of immigrants at the national borders affects their economic, political and social integration outcomes in the host country. Furthermore, he is interested how the perception of immigration governance affects the political behaviour and attitudes of citizens in general. Not only since the last two years it has become clear that the way governments deal with immigration affects citizens’ confidence in political institutions, politicians and parties. Conducting experimental and non-experimental research Stephan engages with the question to what extend the perception of immigration policies affect citizens political behaviour and attitudes and what factors mediate this relationship.


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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 

2014
Master (M.A.) in Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin

2009
Bachelor (B.A.) in Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin

2008
Studies in Social Sciences at the Université de Toulouse I – Capitole (Sciences Po Toulouse) and Université de Toulouse II – Le Mirail


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// PUBLICATIONS

Simon, Stephan (2016): “Loving, Sharing and Engaging: Sub-Saharan Immigrants in a Pentecostal Church”. In: Blokland/Giustozzi/Krüger/Schilling (Eds.): Constructing the Unequal City. The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin. Farnham: Ashgate.


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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2016  "Selecting at the border, integrating within borders: The differential effects of immigration and integration policies on immigrant integration" (13th IMISCOE Annual Conference: Migration and Development, Prague)

2013 “Die Kirche als Infrastruktur der Ermöglichung” (Herbsttagung der Sektion Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie: Stadt/Recht/Teilhabe: Urbane Konflikte um gesellschaftliche Ressourcen, Berlin)

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// EXPERIENCE

Professional Experience

Since 05/2015
Researcher and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Sociology, University of Bamberg

Since 2016
Guest researcher of the research unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

2015 - 2016
Guest researcher of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Immigration Policies in Comparison, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Since 2015
Researcher and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Sociology, University of Bamberg

2015
Researcher in the project “Ethnic discrimination at the German labour market”, research unit "Migration, Integration, Transnationalization“, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Professional Affiliations

Since 2017
Fellow at the Young Policy Network on Migration