Biography
Elina Jonitz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Previously, she worked as a research assistant in two research projects that are part of the Erasmus initiative “Vital Cities and Citizens”, focusing on diversity and inclusion. She holds two master’s degrees, one in Sociology with a specialization in “Governance of Migration and Diversity” (GMD) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and one in Intercultural Communication from the University of Munich. Her research focuses on the (temporal) governance of refugee integration in small towns and rural areas, humanitarian migration movements and regularization opportunities in the context of non-deportability, as well as migrants’ lived experiences.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- jonitz@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Elina Jonitz, Maria Schiller & Peter Scholten (2024) - Are small towns a battleground for migration governance?: Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands - Local Government Studies - doi: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2357306
- Maria Schiller, Isabel Awad Cherit, Nikki Buijse, Marlyn Chantre, Yu-Cheng Huang, Elina Jonitz, Laura van den Brink & Leonieke van Dordrecht (2023) - Brokerage in urban networks on diversity and inclusion: The case of Rotterdam - Cities, 135 - doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104219 - [link]
- Elina Jonitz & Arjen Leerkes (2022) - Making asylum work? Civic stratification and labor-related regularization among rejected asylum seekers in Germany - Law and Policy, 44 (1), 23-43 - doi: 10.1111/lapo.12182 - [link]
- Maria Schiller & Elina Jonitz (2022) - The entanglement of substantive and symbolic politics in immigrant integration: Insights from a regional state in Germany - Policy Studies, 44 (4), 473-495 - doi: 10.1080/01442872.2022.2080813 - [link]
3.7 Bachelor Project
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FSWC-3070