Dr. Bochmann erforscht derzeit die Materialisierung von Grenzen und Lagersystemen als globale Infrastrukturen, mit Fokus auf rechtliche Kategorisierungsprozesse und lokale Ordnungsbildung in Flüchtlingslagern und Migrationsregimen. Durch ethnographische Feldforschung in Südostasien und rechtssoziologische Analysen untersucht sie, wie Staaten Grenzregime durch materielle Strukturen und Rechtsinstitutionen (wie die deutsche Duldung) gestalten und wie Menschen in Lagern und Grenzräumen lokale Rechtsordnungen und Governance-Praktiken etablieren. Ihre Erkenntnisse sind relevant für Behörden und internationale Organisationen, die Migration, Asyl und Lagerinfrastrukturen gestalten, sowie für Forschungseinrichtungen, die sich mit Grenzpolitik und Governance auseinandersetzen. Sie kombiniert dabei Ethnographie, Rechtssoziologie und Materialitätsforschung, um zu zeigen, wie globale Governance-Strukturen in lokalen Praktiken konkret wirksam werden.
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Dr. Annett Bochmann
HU-FIS-Profil ↗Förderer: DFG Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe) Zeitraum: 04/2024 - 03/2028 Projektleitung: Dr. Annett Bochmann
Journal of Refugee Studies · DOI
This article examines social orders of refugee camps, showing that they have a much higher complexity than is captured in theoretical conceptions that emphasize top-down notions of camp regime structures and power. The plurality of governing actors and power relations is highlighted by refugee camp studies, serving as a starting point for this article. Drawing on an ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic research approach, the example of aid delivery in a Burmese refugee camp in Thailand is used to show how camp residents establish powerful social micro structures. These are, for example, the locally achieved ‘disciplinary institution’ and ‘public camp secrets’. The article argues that the association of these micro structures generates the social order of camps. Further, it demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ethnomethodological approach for refugee studies that goes beyond discourses surrounding the camp, governing techniques and narratives of refugees—instead focusing in on people’s practices in concrete situations and events.
<JATS1:p>Based on extensive ethnographic field research, Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland makes a unique contribution to empirical and theoretical discourses on camp institutions, (forced) migration, and border regimes. Focusing on public camp life, everyday interactions, and the concept of microstructures, this ethnography explores local practices of mobility, governance, and economy in the context of plural and temporary environments.</JATS1:p>
Law & Society Review · DOI
Abstract Based on ethnographic research, this article shows how legal orders are being established in spaces where the state law is absent. The case of refugee camps—often discussed as sites of legal limbo and state of exception—seems to be a space of legal pluralism. However, when observing local legal practices, this pluralism is dissolved into a powerful local camp law. This characteristic type of legal order is produced by social camp-specific mechanisms, camp materiality as well as the remaking of pre-camp structures. Therefore, refugee camps should be viewed as extraterritorial spaces with a high degree of legal autonomy that enables and forces residents to create a local camp law. The findings of this study add to the literature of law and order in camps and to the debates on plural configurations in extraterritorial spaces.