Biography
Helena Segarra is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Studies in the 1000 Ideas project “Ma(r)king Neighborhoods. Integrating Art in Urban Research”. Before that, she was co-project leader of the Erasmus+ project HELCI and research assistant in the Erasmus+ project BordEUr at the University of Vienna. Helena studied Arabic and Islamic Studies (BA) in Vienna and Paris and Sociology and Gender Studies (MA) with a research focus on the Middle East at EHESS Paris. She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Vienna in June 2023. Her dissertation: Refugee reception as a site of bordering. Governing the inclusion and exclusion of refugees in European member states deals with bordering processes in the accommodation of refugees. As part of her doctorate, she was a visiting researcher at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy and at the Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse, France.
Research Areas
- Migration research
- Inclusion/Exclusion
- Borders and demarcation
- Socio-spatial inequality
- Asylum
Awards
- Post Doc Track 2024
- Literar Mechana Doktoratsfertigstellungsstipendium 2022
- Marietta Blau Forschungsstipendium 2021
- Unidocs Stipendium 2017