Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel
Vita
Stephan Scheel is Professor of Political Sociology at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research interests lie at the intersection of border and migration studies, citizenship studies, critical security studies, and science and technology studies. He is an expert in the field of biometric border control.
Academic Career
- since 2022: Professor of Political Sociology at Leuphana
- 2019-2022: Junior professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen (Transnational Cooperation and Migration Research)
- 2017-2018: Post-Doc in the research project "Processing Citizenship" at the University of Twente, Netherlands
- 2014-2017: Post-Doc in the research project "ARITHMUS - How Data Make a People" at Goldsmith College, University of London
- 2014: PhD in Political and International Studies at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK
- 2010: Magister Artium in Political Science at the University of Hamburg, Germany
Selected Awards
- 2023: ERC Starting Grant "Doing Digital Identities (DigID)“
Projects
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EU COST Action on "Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)”
Stephan Scheel (Project manager, academic)
→Project: Research
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Doing Digital Identities
Stephan Scheel (Project manager, academic) , Salah Eldin El-Kahil (Project staff) , Oisin Miguel O'Brien (Project staff) , Laura Lambert (Project staff) , Sindhunata Hargyono (Project staff)
→Project: Research
Publications
Books and anthologies
- Data practices: making up a European people
Stephan Scheel (Editor) , Evelyn Ruppert (Editor) , 2021 London , 368 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book › Research
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Engaging with Three Predicaments of Transnational Migration Research in the Postcolonial Condition
Stephan Scheel (Author) , Liina Mustonen (Author) , 01.12.2024 , in: Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 14, 4 , 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
- COVID Capitalism: The Contested Logistics of Migrant Labour Supply Chains in the Double Crisis
Stephan Scheel (Author) , Soledad Álvarez Velasco (Author) , Nicholas De Genova (Author) , 01.05.2024 , in: Politics, 44, 2 , p. 175-187 , 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Activities
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The Autonomy of Citizenship – Learning from the appropriation of national ID cards in Malawi’s borderlands
Stephan Scheel (Speaker)
Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
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The Autonomy of Citizenship - Learning from the appropriation of national ID cards in the Malawian borderlands
Stephan Scheel (Speaker)
Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
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Deferred Citizenship: obligatory passage points, disrupted infrastructures, surrogate papers and cruel optimism in digitized birth registration in Sierra Leone
Stephan Scheel (Speaker)
Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
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Shifting Regimes of Proof: On the Contested Politics of Identification in Border and Migration Management
Stephan Scheel (Speaker) , Kelly Jane Bescherer (Speaker)
Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
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Shifting Regimes of Proof: On the Contested Politics of Identification in Border and Migration Management
Kelly Jane Bescherer (Speaker) , Stephan Scheel (Coauthor)
→Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
Press / Media
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Big Data, Big Promises: Revisiting Migration Statistics in Context of the Datafication of Everything
1 Media contributionPress/Media: Press/Media
Prizes
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Elected Member of the Global Young Faculty VII (MERCUR foundation)
Stephan Scheel (Recipient) ,Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Transfer
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Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA)
Stephan Scheel (Recipient) ,Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research
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PhD-scholarship
Stephan Scheel (Recipient) ,Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Education