Zina Weisner

Zina Weisner, M.A.

PhD Student - Department for Migration and Globalisation

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Zina Weisner is a PhD candidate at the Department for Migration and Globalisation since November 2020. She is a researcher in the “Smart Migration and Asylum Governance” (SMAG) and the “Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus” (MIGNEX) project. 

  • Student representative for the PhD Course “Migration Studies” 
  • Representative for the Department in the Austrian Migration Studies PhD Network 
  • Member of the Research Clusters “Migration Policy and Governance” and “Migration Drivers and Processes” 

About the person

Zina Weisner holds a BA in Governance and Public Policy and a MA in Development Studies from the University of Passau in Germany. Before joining the Department for Migration and Globalization, she worked in the Africa Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin, at the Chair for International Politics at the University of Passau and for the GIZ African Union Office in Ethiopia.  

Zina’s research interests include: 

  • Drivers and dynamics of international migration processes 
  • The migration-development nexus 
  • The externalization of EU migration governance and border policies 
  • Gender and migration 
  • Feminist and critical security studies 
  • Migrant rights and refugee protection

Projects (Extract Research Database)

Running projects

Aligning Migration Management and the Migration-Development Nexus

Duration: 01/09/2018–31/08/2024
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Mathias Czaika
Funding: EU
Program: H2020

Completed projects

Smart Migration and Asylum Governance (SMAG)

Duration: 01/09/2020–31/12/2022
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Mathias Czaika
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)

Publications (Extract Research Database)

Weisner, Z.; Vidal, P.; Kraler, A.; Czaika, M. (2024). Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel. International Migration Review, 0: 0

Carling, J.; Hagen-Zanker, J.; Weisner, Z. (2024). New insights on the causes of migration. Peace Research Institute Oslo, MIGNEX Report, Oslo

Siegel, M.; Marchand, K.; Hagen-Zanker, J.; Weisner, Z. (2024). New insights on development impacts of migration. Peace Research Institute Oslo, MIGNEX Report, Oslo

Weisner, Z. (2024). New Insights into the Causes of Migration: The Importance of Good Governance. Welternährung/Global Food Journal, 06/2024: 0

Weisner, Z. (2024). Forced migrant returns risks undermining EU’s development aid strategy. EU Observer

Weisner, Z.; Czaika, M. (2024). A QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) on the development impacts of migration. Peace Research Institute Oslo, MIGNEX Background Paper, Oslo

Czaika, M.; Weisner, Z. (2023). A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the determination of migration processes. Peace Research Institute Oslo, MIGNEX Background Paper, Oslo

Weisner, Z. (2023). The Impact of European Border Externalization on Humanitarian Aid and Access in the Sahel Region. Zenodo: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8215130

Weisner, Z.; Pope, S. (2023). From Development to Deterrence? Migration spending under the EU Neighbourhood Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI). Oxfam International: 10.21201/2023.621536

Weisner, Z.; Courbon, J. (2022). Activation of the temporary protection directive: Renaissance or tight-rope act for the EU asylum system? Polis180, Polis Blog

Weisner, Z.; Pozniak, R. (2022). Care as counteraction: Addressing border deaths at the European Union’s periphery. Routed Magazine, Routed Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine, Issue 20 Displacement, governance & human rights: nn

Lectures (Extract Research Database)

Migration Impacts on Emigration Areas: Insights from the MIGNEX Project in Africa and Asia

MIGNEX Academic Conference: New knowledge on migration, development and policy, 26/06/2024

Migration Control and its (Un)intended Consequences: The Complexities of and Resistance to Border Regimes

EWIS 10th European Workshops in International Studies, 13/07/2023

Rippling effects of external migration control on migrant’s humanitarian access in Mali and Niger

European Union in International Affairs (EUIA) Conference, 04/05/2023

The Impact of European Border Externalization on Humanitarian Aid and Access in the Sahel Region

Smart Migration and Asylum Governance (SMAG) Policy Workshop, 07/12/2022

(Mis-)Trust in Transit – Local effects of external migration control on migrant's humanitarian access in the Sahel region

Migration Control Workshop "De-centring and Contesting Externalisation in West Africa and Beyond", SOAS University of London, 20/09/2022

Security for whom and how?: Migrants' Practices of Self-Protection and Care within the EU Externalized Border Regime

EISA 9th European Workshops in International Studies, Workshop "Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives on the European Union's Security Policies", 08/07/2022

(Mis-)Trust in Transit: Local effects of external migration control on humanitarian access to migrants in two West African transit locations

19th IMISCOE Annual Conference 2022, Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance, 01/07/2022

Global migration intensity– a configurational driver analysis

5. International QCA Paper Development Workshop 2021, 13/12/2021

What drives global migration patterns? A fuzzy set analysis of complex configurations of multiple drivers

18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 08/07/2021

Gender, security and development in the external dimension of EU migration governance

EuroMedMi Ph.D. Summer School 2021 "Mediterranean Migration Studies: Theoretical and Empirical Research Agenda", 28/06/2021