Zina Weisner, M.A.

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” 

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