Neuer Fellow an der Professur für soziologischen Kulturenvergleich und qualitative Sozialforschung
Irene Tuzi, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) (Berlin, Germany)
Dresden Fellowship Programme: 01.06.2022 - 30.11.2022
Irene Tuzi holds a double PhD in Social Sciences from Sapienza University of Rome and Humboldt University of Berlin. Her work to date has largely dealt with refugee studies and gender studies and has especially focused on the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, and Europe. Her research embraces various areas of Migration Sociology, including forced migration studies, the relations between migration, gender, and the state as well as the nexus between transnationalism and integration from a gendered perspective. At a theoretical level, Irene Tuzi is primarily interested in exploring agency in migration and displacement and in applying a (self)reflexive approach to migration studies. At a methodological level, Irene Tuzi has solid experience with qualitative methodologies (e.g. ethnography, interviews, observation, focus group discussions, etc.) and side aspects of field research, including self-reflexive and decolonizing approaches, power relations and inequalities, doing fieldwork in sensitive research areas, and working with disadvantaged populations.
Her dissertation, published under the title “Renegotiating Gender Roles and Relationships in Displacement: Syrian Families in Lebanon and Germany” is dedicated to investigating how agency is exercised to renegotiate gender roles and relationships in displacement. This study compares two refugeehood situations and puts agency on a temporal scale to discuss how Syrian men and women do gender and do family in displacement.
Her current project investigates the interplay between transnationalism, mediatization, and integration through the lens of transnational migrant families in Europe.
At TU Dresden, as part of the Dresden Fellowship Programme Link Irene is working on preparing a research proposal for third-party funding. She is also teaching a Bachelor’s course titled “Sociology of Migration” OPAL, and she is co-organizing, with Dr. Patricia Ward, the international conference titled ‘Thinking through ‘The Transnational’: A Tumultuous Task?’ Link, hosted by the Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies and Qualitative Research, Institute for Sociology, and the Center for Integration Studies at TU