Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel

1. EU COST Action on "Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)”
   Stephan Scheel (Project manager, academic)
   9/28/23 → 9/27/27

   Project: Research

2. Doing Digital Identities
   Stephan Scheel (Project manager, academic) , Salah El-Kahil (Project staff) , Oisin O'Brien (Project staff) , Laura Lambert (Project staff) , Sindhunata Hargyono (Project staff)
   2/1/23 → 1/31/28

   Project: Research

Books and anthologies

1. Data practices: making up a European people
   Evelyn Ruppert (Editor) , Stephan Scheel (Editor) , 2021 London , 368 p.

   Research output: Books and anthologies › Book › Research

2. Autonomy of migration?: Appropriating mobility within biometric border regimes
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , 2019 , 230 p.

   Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review

Journal contributions

1. Regimes of Proof: On Contested Identities in Border and Migration Control
   Kelly Bescherer (Author) , Stephan Scheel (Author) , 01.11.2025 , in: International Migration, 63, 6 , 12 p.

   Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

2. Re-bordering life and labor during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean
   Soledad Álvarez Velasco (Author) , Nicholas De Genova (Author) , Stephan Scheel (Author) , 27.09.2025 , in: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space , 17 p.

   Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

3. Migrant struggles and moral economies of subversion: mimicry and opacity
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , 01.05.2025 , in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51, 10 , p. 2648-2667 , 20 p.

   Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

4. The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , 01.04.2025 , in: Geopolitics, 30, 3 , p. 1028-1050 , 23 p.

   Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

5. Playing dirty: The shady governance and reproduction of migrant illegality
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51, 2 , p. 464-482 , 19 p.

   Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

1. Introduction: The Politics of Making Up a European People
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , Evelyn Ruppert (Author) , 02.11.2021 London , p. 1-28 , 28 p.

   Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

2. Data Practices
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , Evelyn Ruppert (Author) , 02.11.2021 London , p. 29-48 , 20 p.

   Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

3. Migrants: Omitting and Recalibrating
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , Funda Ustek-Spilda (Author) , 02.11.2021 London , p. 125-164 , 40 p.

   Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

4. Foreigners: Inferring and Assigning
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , Francisca Grommé (Author) , 02.11.2021 9781912685851 , p. 165-204 , 40 p.

   Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

5. Conclusion: The Politics of Data Practices
   Stephan Scheel (Author) , Evelyn Ruppert (Author) , 02.11.2021 London , p. 269-303 , 35 p.

   Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

1. Visions of Seamless Travel: (En)Countering Camouflaged Sovereignty at the Frictionless Border
   Stephan Scheel (Speaker)
   2/26/26

   Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

2. The Autonomy of Citizenship – Learning from the appropriation of national ID cards in Malawi’s borderlands
   Stephan Scheel (Speaker)
   9/23/25

   Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

3. The Autonomy of Citizenship - Learning from the appropriation of national ID cards in the Malawian borderlands
   Stephan Scheel (Speaker)
   6/26/25

   Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

4. Deferred Citizenship: obligatory passage points, disrupted infrastructures, surrogate papers and cruel optimism in digitized birth registration in Sierra Leone
   Stephan Scheel (Speaker)
   7/11/24

   Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research

5. Shifting Regimes of Proof: On the Contested Politics of Identification in Border and Migration Management
   Stephan Scheel (Speaker) , Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
   7/9/24

   Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

1. Big Data, Big Promises: Revisiting Migration Statistics in Context of the Datafication of Everything
   6/1/18
   1 Media contribution

   Press/Media: Press/Media

1. Elected Member of the Global Young Faculty VII (MERCUR foundation)
   Stephan Scheel (Recipient) , 2019

   Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Transfer

2. Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA)
   Stephan Scheel (Recipient) , 2015

   Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

3. PhD-scholarship
   Stephan Scheel (Recipient) , 2010

   Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Education