Univ.-Ass. Leila Hadj-Abdou, Ph.D.
Univ.-Ass. Leila Hadj-Abdou, Ph.D.
Contact
Neues Institutsgebäude
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room: B207
1010 Vienna
T: +43-1-4277-494 17
F: +43-1-4277-949 4
E-Mail: leila.hadj-abdou@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://leilahadjabdou.com/
Office Hours
Wednesday 15.30 - 16.30
Teaching
Courses: u:find
Short CV
Leila joined the IPW in October 2020. Prior to joining the department Leila was Research Fellow at the Migration Policy Center (MPC) & the School of Transnational Governance (STG) at the European University Institute (EUI) (since October 2020, in a part time role at the EUI). From 2014-15 she was a Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield (UK); and in 2013/14 she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University) in Washington D.C.. She held visiting positions at the University College Dublin (Ireland) and the CNRS (Paris, France). Leila holds a Ph.D. (2013) in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (Italy).
Research Focuses
Migration governance, Migration politics, European Union politics, Immigration and immigrant integration policies, and the populist radical right. Leila has also extensive, practical experience in the field of asylum/migration, having held positions in 2016 and 2017 as a project coordinator for an NGO working with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, as well as in an educational centre working with adult refugees, and refugee care workers.
Recent Publications (Selection, for a full list see here)
- Migration and Mobility in the European Union, Macmillan 2020 (co-authored with A. Geddes, and L. Brumat) [see also Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwA7vvAiAlc]
- The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance, 2019 Edward Elgar (co-edited with A. Geddes, L. Brumat and M. Espinoza)
- Illiberalism and migration. In: Sajó, A., Holmes, S. and Uitz, R. (eds.): Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism. Routledge 2021, 299-312. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Illiberalism/Sajo-Uitz-Holmes/p/book/9780367260545
- The Centre Right in an era of politicization (first author, with T. Bale and A. Geddes, Special Issue Introduction), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2021, online first. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1853901
- The Austrian People’s Party: an anti-immigrant right party? (first author, with. D. Ruedin), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2021, online first. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1853904
- Gender and Religion. In: Heynes, J. (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Politics and Ideology. Routledge 2021. 65-77 . https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Religion-Politics-and-Ideology/Haynes/p/book/9780367417826
- Contested Citizenship: Protest in the Field of Asylum. (first author, with S. Rosenberger). In: Giugni, M. and Grasso, M. (eds.): Edward Elgar Handbook on Citizenship and Migration. Edward Elgar 2021. 317-332 https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-citizenship-and-migration-9781789903126.html
- From the Migration Crisis to the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: The Status Quo Problem. Working Paper BRIDGE/UCD 2021. https://bridgenetwork.eu/publication/migration-crisis-new-pact-on-migration-and-asylum/
- From “bogus” asylum seekers to “genuine” refugees; shifting discourses and attitudes towards Afghan migrants, https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/2021/from-bogus-asylum-seekers-to-genuine-refugees-shifting-discourses-and-attitudes-towards-afghan-migrants/ (with. A. Pettrachin). The University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Blog, 2021.