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Timor Landherr

Timor Landherr

Email: t.e.e.landherr@qmul.ac.uk

Supervisors: Prof Jef Huysmans, Prof Simon Reid-Henry, Prof Ray Kiely

Research Topic: My current project – 'Border Politics Beyond Limits: Spatializing Externalisation and the Production of Transit States' – aims to understand how border externalisation transforms the spaces it intervenes into and reinserts them into transnational regimes of (labour) mobility and fixity. Situated in essential debates in IPE and IR, it directly intervenes in and advances critical strands of international theory that study how the international order is spatially transformed through changing border and migration politics. 

Research Interests: Borders, Migration, Transit States, Border Externalization, Labour Migration, Racism, International Political Economy, International Political Sociology, International Relations Theory, War Studies, Field Work, Qualitative Methods, US-Mexico, EU-Turkey.

Education: 

  • MSc in International Relations Research, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • BA International Relations and International Organization, University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • Honours College Degree, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Work Experience: Prior to joining SPIR, Timor was part of the Rethink:Europe team at the European Council of Foreign Relations and gained work experience as a trainee for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Brussels.

Publications:

Peer-reviewed articles:

Timor Landherr (2024). “The Transit Fix - Border Externalization and the Interplay of Capital and Race in the Transit “Migration” State.” International Studies Quarterly. Volume 68, Issue 2, https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqae068

Commentary and blogs:

Timor Landherr. 2024. “Migrant Caravans are Challenging an Oppressive Border Regime”. Jacobin. 01/2024. Available at: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/migrant-caravans-border-regime-immigration.

Landherr, Timor and Stacey Tristan. 2023. “Wahlkampf in der Tuerkei: Ausbeuten und Abschieben”, der Freitag. 15/2023. Available at: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/wahlkampf-in-der-tuerkei-ausbeuten-und-abschieben

Timor Landherr. 2023. “Border Externalisation, Activism, and Climbing”, in PhD – Pretty Honest Discussions. Podcast available on Spotify.

Timor Landherr. 2021. “Ignoring “Low-Skilled” Migrants and Outsourcing Security: A Critical Assessment of Germany’s Report on the Implementation of the Global Compact on Migration.” Refugee Law Initiative: RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration. Available at https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/04/14/ignoring-low-skilled-migrants-and-outsourcing-security-a-critical-assessment-of-germanys-report-on-the-implementation-of-the-global-compact-on-migration/

Landherr, Timor and Unverdorben, Oliver. 2019. “Shoring up European cohesion: The multiplier effect of political engagement.” European Council on Foreign Relations. Available at: https://ecfr.eu/article/commentary_shoring_up_european_cohesion_the_multiplier_effect_of_political/

Twitter: @timorland11

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