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Research interests
My work focuses on the politics of development and social policy, the governance of migration and refugees, as well as postcolonial and anthropological perspectives on statehood and collective identities.I am a political scientist by training, yet my theoretical and topical interests, as well as my area studies expertise, have meant that my work is interdisciplinary. My research and teaching builds on a broad, cross-disciplinary notion of political and socio-economic change in the global South, particularly in the Arab world, which is grounded in social and political theorizing as well as in-depth qualitative research in the region. Most of my empirical research to date has focused on Jordan.
While my Ph.D. thesis focused on the politics of poverty alleviation policy, my postdoctoral work has concentrated more on the governance of the Syrian presence in Jordan and other states in the region. Recently, I have become particularly interested in policies that seek to address refugees as labour market participants. This has included looking at the role of donors in promoting these policies, the contradictions they encounter, and the manifold effects they have on the ground. I am currently analysing the role of German-funded and/or implemented projects and programmes seeking to create or improve employment for Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan.
Education/Academic qualification
Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
Political Science, Master of Arts, Freie Universität Berlin
Middle East Politics, Master of Science, School of Oriental and African Studies
Keywords
- migration governance
- development
- refugees
- Arab world
- donors
- humanitarianism
- Jordan
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Projects
Understanding refugee livelihoods in protracted displacement: towards establishing a multi-methods network of expertise
Lenner, K., Tiltnes, Å. A., Kebede, T. A. & Stave, S. E.
1/01/20 → 30/06/20
Project: Other
Tackling the Causes for Flight? The Changing Features of German Refugee Policy in Jordan
1/05/17 → 31/03/19
Project: Research council
Research Output
Exkurs: aktuelle gesellschaftliche, soziale und politische Rahmenbedingungen in Jordanian: Digression: Current basic societal, social and political conditions in Jordan
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Introduction
Lenner, K., Carmel, E. & Paul, R., 2020, Handbook of the Governance and Politics of Migration. Carmel, E., Lenner, K. & Paul, R. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing LtdResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
‘Biting our tongues’: Policy legacies and memories in the making of the Syrian refugee response in Jordan
Lenner, K., 23 May 2020, In : Refugee Survey Quarterly.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
A world of self-reliant refugees? Reflections on World Refugee Day
Lenner, K., 20 Jun 2019Research output: Other contribution
Open Access
Ein Flüchtlingsproblem?
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article