Matthias Schneider’s work contributes to migration and forced migration studies by bringing them into dialogue with gender studies, masculinity studies, biographical research, and violence research. His research examines how forced migration shapes masculinities across different stages of the migration process, including life before flight, transit, asylum procedures, and arrival in Germany. A central contribution of his work is a differentiated and process-oriented understanding of refugee masculinities. Based on biographical research on men who fled Eritrea, Schneider analyzes how masculinities emerge, become marginalized before flight, and are further transformed during and after migration. His publications also address the often-overlooked vulnerability of refugee men, their experiences of violence, and the relationship between injury, solidarity, health, and social participation. Across these publications, Schneider challenges one-sided public representations of refugee men as threats and instead foregrounds their heterogeneous experiences within unequal migration, asylum, and gender regimes. His work strengthens an intersectional perspective on forced migration by showing how masculinity, vulnerability, violence, and biography are mutually entangled.

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Freie Universität Berlin

    University, Berlin, Germany
    PostDoc

Research

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