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Eurac Research is a private research center based in Bolzano (South Tyrol) with researchers from a wide variety of scientific fields who come from all over the globe. Together, through scientific knowledge and research, they share the goal of shaping the future.

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Our research addresses the greatest challenges facing us in the future: people need health, energy, well-functioning political and social systems and an intact environment. These are complex questions, and we are seeking the answers in the interaction between many different disciplines.

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  • Institute for Alpine Environment
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  • Center for Advanced Studies
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  • Center for Sensing Solutions
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Verena Wisthaler

Verena Wisthaler

Verena Wisthaler

Research Group Leader
Institute for Minority Rights

T 132 550 1740 93+ude.carue@relahtsiw.anerev
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About

I am a Political Scientist and I study the politics of migration. I am particularly interested in how migration plays out at the regional and local level: Who are the relevant actors, what are their underlying frames and discourses, and how do they impact the policy making process. I also study relations between actors and governmental levels, effects of political discourse on policy making and different forms of participation.

I direct the research group “Politics and Actors in Societal Conflicts”. Together we explore minority issues and societal conflicts through the lens of actors and the politics of agency. Our actor-centred research focuses on mobile people, diverse societies, inequalities and their interactions with minority issues.

I am also member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group “Migration and Ethnicity” and I collaborate with colleagues from various universities and research centers worldwide. I strongly believe in exchange and teamwork and in the power of supporting each other in academia. Therefore I am also very active within our own interdisciplinary research group “Migrations and Diversities”.

I also teach courses on political science at various universities, such as the University of Innsbruck and Vienna (AT), Science Po – Campus Menton (FR) and Université de Neuchâtel (CH).

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MAGAZINE Science Stories that Inspire

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Esperienze e impegno collettivo delle donne durante la pandemia di Covid-19

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Closing borders is supposed to create a sense of security for those within. (…) ‘protecting’ borders also suggests that there is something to be protected from.

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20 October 2021mobile-people-and-diverse-societies

How cities and regions are turning immigrants into citizens, whatever the central governments think