Lisa-Marie Kraus studied cultural sociology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and afterwards became part of the EU project „Becoming a Minority“ (BaM) as a PhD candidate at the Free University of Amsterdam. The BaM project looks at the lives of people without a migration background living in ethnically diverse neighborhoods where everybody belongs to a minority now. In a city like Vienna, for instance, about 54% of the population is either born abroad or has one parent born abroad. This situation is becoming more and more common in many neighborhoods of large Western European cities.
The BaM project is funded by the European Research Council through an ERC Advanced Grant. As part of the project, Lisa-Marie conducts a research stay at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research.