Heidrun Bohnet

Assoz. Prof. Dr. Heidrun Bohnet

Associate Professor - Department for Migration and Globalisation

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Functions

  • Associate Professor of Migration and Conflict Research
  • Teaching applied qualitative and quantitative research methods, forced migration and violent conflict dynamics
  • PhD Programme Management of “Migration Studies” and supervising PhD candidates
  • Coordinating the research cluster on “Integration and Social Cohesion”
  • Co-leading the cooperation on “Migration and International Politics” between Danube University Krems and the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip) 
  • Responsible for organising interdisciplinary discussion series on migration research: “DEMIG Talks”

About the person

Before joining the Department for Migration and Globalisation, Heidrun Bohnet was research and teaching fellow (Maître Assistante) at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva and senior researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC). She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University Geneva, Switzerland. Heidrun Bohnet has led and be involved in various international (geo-coded) data collection projects on displacement. Heidrun Bohnet has published in leading international relations journals, such as the Journal of Conflict Research, Conflict Management and Peace Science and Civil Wars.

Her key research areas include:

  • De facto (forced) migration policies 
  • “Mixed rivals and rivalries” between different migrant groups 
  • Perceptions of threat and inequality
  • The nexus between forced migration (conflict and environment-induced) and violent conflict (e.g., ethnic)
  • Spatial, categorical, and temporal interlinkages between migration flows and policies
  • Return and (re)integration processes
  • Protracted displacement situations and settlement patterns of refugees and IDPs
  • Regional and field expertise in Eastern Africa and the Middle East

Projects (Extract Research Database)

Running projects

Mixed (ar)rivals: Perceptions of threat, inequalities and the risk of violence between different (forced) migrant groups in North Africa

Duration: 01/03/2024–28/02/2029
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Heidrun Bohnet
Funding: EU

Measuring Irregular Migration and Related Policies

Duration: 01/10/2022–30/09/2025
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Albert Kraler
Funding: EU

Bridging Migration and International Relations

Duration: 01/01/2022–31/12/2024
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Mathias Czaika

Development of a Master level programme: ‘International Law and Forced Migration Studies’

Duration: 01/01/2020–31/12/2022
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Friedrich Altenburg
Funding: EU

Completed projects

Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy

Duration: 01/02/2020–31/07/2023
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Mathias Czaika
Funding: EU

Publications (Extract Research Database)

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F.; Bijak, J. (2024). European migration governance in the context of uncertainty. International Migration, 26 July 2024: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13308

Heidrun Bohnet, Federica Zardo (UWK), Clemens Binder, Müge Dalkiran, Cengiz Günay, Daniela Pisoiu, Vedran Dzihic and Sophie Reichelt (oiip) (2024). The Impact of Migration on International Relations: Power Relations, Security, and Migration Diplomacy Reexamined.

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F. (2023). Categorical and spatial interlinkages within the European migration policy mix. European Union Politics, Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165231209941

Cottier, F.; Bohnet, H. (2023). Statistical Analyses with IO Data. In: Badache, F.; Kimber, L. R. and Maertens, L., International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction: 212-220, University of Michigan Press, Arbor, A.

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F.; Bijak, J. (2023). European migration governance in the context of uncertainty.

Bohnet, H.; Rüegger, S. (2021). Refugees and Covid-19: Beyond Health Risks to Insecurity. SPSR: Special Issue: Covid-19: A Political Science Perspective, 27(2): https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12466

Bohnet, H.; Cottier, F.; Hug, S. (2021). Conflict versus Disaster-induced Displacement: Similar or Distinct Implications for Security? Civil Wars, Published online: https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2021.1963586, Taylor&Francis

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F. (2021). Disentangling the European Migration Policy-Mix Since 1990. QuantMig Project Report D5.5.

Czaika, M; Bohnet, H.; Soto-Nishimura, A. (2021). Spatial and categorical dependence of European migration flows. QuantMig Project Report 5.2

Rüegger, S.; Bohnet, H. (2020). The Link between Forced Migration and Conflict. In: Krieger, T; Panke, D.; Pregernig, M., Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance: 177-196, Bristol University Press, Bristol

Lectures (Extract Research Database)

The implementation gaps of refugee policies, protest and violent conflict

ISA Annual Conference, 03/04/2024

Unpacking the uncertainty-governance nexus in the context of migration

IMISCOE, 06/07/2023

The Implementation Gaps of Refugee Policies and Violent Conflict

EPSA, 22/06/2023

From policy-mixes to configurations: Disentangling interlinkages in European migration-relevant policies

Seventh Conference on Migration Research in Austria, 26/09/2022

European migration governance in the context of uncertainty

IMISCOE, 30/06/2022

Disentangling the European migration policy-mix

ISA, Nashville, 30/03/2022

The spatial and categorical interconnectedness of European migration flows

International Population Conference (IPC), Hyderabad, 08/12/2021

Are they all linked? The spatial and categorical interconnectedness of European migration flows

IMISCOE, Luxembourg, 08/07/2021

Restrictive refugee policies: A guarantee for local security?

ISA, 06/04/2021