Research Staff

Jessica Schultz

Senior Researcher

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Legal researcher focused on international human rights and refugee law

I am a legal researcher with a background in human rights and refugee law. My recent work focuses on the regulation of migration attachments in immigration and citizenship law, vulnerability categories, transnational repression, migration and development aid, temporary protection, and refugee resettlement.

Current projects

Attachments as mode of regulation: migrant inclusion in the welfare state (ATTACH) (NFR, 2026-2030)

Eritrean diaspora engagement and its impact on European democracies (NFR, 2025-2027)

Conditions for stability and sustainable returns in Syria (NFR, 2026-2030)

Recent projects

Temporary Protection as a Durable Solution? The ‘return turn’ in asylum policies in Europe (TemPro), a collaboration between anthropologists and legal scholars exploring how temporariness is produced in law and how it is experienced by refugees in Denmark, Norway, the UK and Germany (NFR, 2021-2025). 

The Future of Resettlement: Vulnerability Revisited (NFR, 2021-2024)

VULNER: Vulnerabilities under the global protection regime (EU Horizon 2020, 2020-2023)

Interdisciplinarity in Migration Research

WAIT: the temporalities of irregular migration (NFR 2017-2020)

Podcast:

Refugee Law and Refugee Lives

Most recent publications