Prof. Dr. Katrin Sontag

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Curriculum Vitae

Since 2022

Professor of Intercultural Management, Furtwangen University

Since 2020

Lecturer and co-development MA Programme “Changing Societies”, University of Basel

2018-2022

Postdoc and lecturer at the University of Basel, Cultural Anthropology, fellow at the National Center of Competence in Research “nccr – on the move”, Project: “Perimeters of Multilayered Democratic Citizenship in a Mobile and Multicultural World”

2018

Fellow at the University of California San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

2017-2018

Postdoc and lecturer at the University of Basel, Cultural Anthropology, fellow at the National Center of Competence in Research “nccr – on the move”

Project: “Comparative Case Study on Refugees at Universities in Mulhouse (F), Freiburg (D) and Basel (CH)”

2012-2016

Researcher and lecturer, PhD in Cultural Anthropology, University of Basel

Title: “Mobile Entrepreneurs. An Ethnographic Study of the Migration of the Highly Skilled”

2011

Since 2011 coach and consultant (Coaching qualification E.C.A.)

2008 – 2010

Senior consultant, Director Asia Pacific at the international management consultancy E.R.P. GmbH, branch office Beijing

2005-2007

M.A. in European Ethnology, University of Iceland, Title: “Parallel Worlds: Fieldwork with Elves, Icelanders and Academics”

2000-2005

Studies of Cultural Anthropology (major), languages, Economics, Freie Universität Berlin

1995-1998

College and high school in India, Religion and Philosophy, United Theological College, Bangalore

 

Field of research and / or teaching

Forschungsfelder:

Migration und Mobilität, Citizenship, Wahlrecht, undocumented mobility, Flucht und Asyl, Studierende mit Fluchterfahrung, Organisationsethnologie/ business anthropology und Startup-Unternehmertum

Lehrgebiete:

Kultur: Kompetenz und Kommunikation, Diversität, Migration, wissenschaftliches Schreiben, qualitative und ethnographische Forschungsmethoden

Publications

Sontag, Katrin

2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

2023

Matthieu Vetois, Katrin Sontag, Anita Manatschal, Nelida Planamente, Jinhee Kim, Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor Overcoming Social Interactions Stress During COVID-19 Lockdown: The Role of Individuals’ Mobility and Online Emotional Support

2022

Katrin Sontag Migration and mobility : Environmental, social and political dimensions
Katrin Sontag, Metka Herzog, Silva Lässer Struggles for democracy: strategies and resources of initiatives for non‑citizen voting rights at local levels in Europe

2021

Katrin Sontag Beyond “Integration” – Why There is More at Stake
Selina Reusser, Katrin Sontag Der erste «internationale Tag für das Wahlrecht für alle Einwohner*innen»
Katrin Sontag, Postdoc und Kulturanthropologin
Liliana Azevedo, Silva Lässer, Katrin Sontag Student and Retiree Mobilities
Katrin Sontag, Selina Reusser What are Current Demands for More Inclusive Voting Rights in Migration Societies?

2020

Anita Manatschal, Katrin Sontag Blog Series “Social Cohesion Beyond the Nation State?”
Katrin Sontag Migration, Sustainability and Democracy : Current Debates on Environmental, Social, and Political Issues
Katrin Sontag Non-Citizen Voting Rights: A New European Network
Tim Harder, Katrin Sontag Refugees in Higher Education – Developments in 2019
Katrin Sontag Social Cohesion Through Solidarity with Refugees

2019

Julia Brandenberger, Thorkild Tylleskär, Katrin Sontag, Bernadette Peterhans, Nicole Ritz A systematic literature review of reported challenges in health care delivery to migrants and refugees in high-income countries - the 3C mode
Julia Brandenberger, Katrin Sontag, Cedric Duchene-Lacroix, Fabienne N. Jaeger, Bernadette Peterhans, Nicole Ritz Perspective of asylum-seeking caregivers on the quality of care provided by a Swiss paediatric hospital: a qualitative study
Katrin Sontag Refugee Students’ Access to Three European Universities: An Ethnographic Study
Katrin Sontag Voting Rights – A Question of Nationality or Residence?

2018

Katrin Sontag Deported to Mexico as Strangers
Katrin Sontag Highly skilled asylum seekers: Case studies of refugee students at a Swiss university
Katrin Sontag Mobile entrepreneurs : an ethnographic study of the migration of the highly skilled
Walter Leimgruber, Metka Hercog, Laure Sandoz, Katrin Sontag The Mobility of the “Highly Skilled” towards Switzerland
Katrin Sontag, Adi Hercowitz-Amir The Wall That Already Exists at the U.S.-Mexican Border
Katrin Sontag, Tim Harder What Are the Barriers for Asylum Seekers and Refugees Who Want to Enroll at a Swiss University?

2017

Katrin Sontag Katrin Sontag's ethnological sensation
Konrad J. Kuhn(Ed.), , Katrin Sontag(Ed.), , Walter Leimgruber(Ed.) Lebenskunst - Erkundungen zu Biographie, Lebenswelt und Erinnerung : Festschrift für Jacques Picard
Helene Oberle, Laure Sandoz, Katrin Sontag Mobilität – der Weg zum Erfolg? Eine öffentliche Veranstaltung der Wissenschaftsvermittlung als paraethnografisches Experiment
Katrin Sontag, Konrad J. Kuhn, Barbara Haering, Walter Leimgruber Verbindungen: Denken und Leben im Dialog - eine Einleitung

2016

Katrin Sontag Narrating Multiple Mobilities of Start-Up Founders
Cedric Duchene-Lacroix, Monika Götzö, Katrin Sontag The experience of multilocal living – mobile immobilities or immobile mobilities?

2015

Monika Götzö, Katrin Sontag Ansätze für eine kulturanthropologische Untersuchung hochqualifizierter Migrantinnen und Migranten. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Bestandsaufnahme
Monika Götzö, Katrin Sontag The pursuit of happiness? : Migration von Hochqualifizierten