Josef Neubauer, MA MSc B.A.

Josef Neubauer is a PhD student at the Department of Migration and Globalization at the University of Continuing Education Krems. His PhD project investigates Dynamics of adaptive migration aspirations in Nepal and beyond (DYNAMIGS). He further participates in the project Development implications of involuntary immobility in Africa. 

Josef Neubauer is a Doctoral researcher in Migration Studies at the Department for Migration and Globalisation. He is interested in the processes, dynamics, and drivers of migration, as well as their links to social transformations and development processes, globalisation, social inequality, and politics. Josef particularly focuses on the experiences and perspectives of migrants and people with migration aspirations. His work is mostly interdisciplinary and combines quantitative and qualitative methods. Josef has a geographical focus on South Asia and West Africa. 

Josef studied International Development Studies (MSc) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Migration and Global Development (MA) at the University of Sussex, and Political Science and Music Education (BA) at the University of Bremen. Josef is also part of the Teaching Immigration in European Schools (TIES) project, which uses innovative learning modules to bring academic insights on migration into European classrooms. 

His specific research interests include: 

• Migration aspirations and decision-making processes 

• Migration and development 

• Globalisation 

• International politics