DR. BARBARA LAUBENTHAL

Political scientist (PhD) and television researcher with strong expertise in qualitative methods and data analysis, storytelling, and audience communication. Experienced in conducting interviews, moderating group discussions, and identifying the framings that resonate with specific audiences. Former Researcher/Senior Researcher for CBS and Merit Street Media with associate producer-level responsibilities. Strong visual communication skills, including graphics, PowerPoint, and Canva. Proven ability to manage complex projects and present findings clearly to non-specialist audiences under tight deadlines.

• Books
• In preparation: (finished manuscript): Barbara Laubenthal. ‘Give us justice before we die.’ Reparations for Second World War colonial veterans in the U.S. and France.
• 2007. Barbara Laubenthal. Der Kampf um Legalisierung. Soziale Bewegungen illegaler Migranten in Frankreich, Spanienund der Schweiz (The Battle for Regularization. Undocumented migrants’ social movements in France, Spain and Switzerland). Frankfurt/Main: Campus-Verlag.
• 1999. Barbara Laubenthal. Vergewaltigung als Asylgrund. Die gegenwärtige Praxis in Deutschland (Rape as Grounds for Political Asylum. The current practice in Germany). Frankfurt/Main: Campus-Verlag.
• Edited volumes
• 2023. Barbara Laubenthal (Ed). How migrants become members. Integration and transnationalism theories revisited (guest editor), special issue of International Migration.
• 2017. Barbara Laubenthal (Ed.) Labour migration in Europe Changing policies - changing organizations - changing people (guest editor), special issue of International Migration, 55 (S1), December.
• Journal articles
• 2021. Barbara Laubenthal and Kevin Myers. Memories of Migration. Commemoration, contestation and migrant integration in Germany and the United Kingdom. German Politics and Society 39 (2).
• 2019. Refugees Welcome? Reforms of German Asylum Policies between 2013 and 2017 and Germany’s Transformation into an Immigration Country. German Politics 28 (03): 412-425.
• 2015. History as a resource. The movie „Indigènes“ and the debate on integration in France. IMIS-Beiträge, special issue „The visual production of migration “, 46, 77-95.
• 2014. Europeanization and the Negotiation of a New Labour Migration Policy in Germany. The Goodness of Fit Approach Revisited. Comparative Migration Studies, 2(4), 469-492.
• 2014. Politik ohne Mandat? Gesellschaftliche Akteure und neue Formen informellen Regierens im Politikfeld Migration. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 8 (1), 237-257.
• 2011. „Keine Papiere für alle“? Formen und Grenzen der Politisierung illegaler Migration in Deutschland. Vorgänge. Zeitschrift für Bürgerrechte und Gesellschaftspolitik, 194, 2/2011, 77-84.
• 2011. The negotiation of social rights of irregular migrants in Germany - a challenge to the nation-state. Ethnic and Racial Studies, special issue Undocumented Migrants: Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives, 34 (8), 1357-1373.
• 2009. Barbara Laubenthal and Joerg-Uwe Nieland. ‘Des gens pas comme nous’. Les transmigrants turcs dans le documentaire allemande. Hommes et Migrations, Dossier France Allemagne. Politiques d’immigration et identités nationales, no. 1277, 98-104.
• 2007. The emergence of pro-regularisation movements in Western Europe. International Migration 45 (3), 101-133.
• 2006. Die Schweizer Pro-Regularisierungsbewegung. Forum. Zeitschrift des Schweizerischen Forums für Migrations- und Bevölkerungsstudien 6, 2006.
• 2005. ‘Papiere für alle’. Die Entstehung von Protesten illegaler Einwanderer in Murcia (Spanien). IMIS-Beiträge 27, Dezember 2005, 109-130
• Book chapters
• 2018. Spillover in der Migrationspolitik. Die Asylpolitik der dritten Merkel-Regierung und der Wandel Deutschlands zum Einwanderungsland. In Zohlnhöfer,R./Saalfeld, T. (Eds.). Zwischen Stillstand, Politikwechsel und Krisenmanagement.Eine Bilanz der Regierung Merkel 2013-2017. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 513-532.
• 2016. Entschädigungen für Kolonialveteranen des zweiten Weltkriegs in Frankreich und den USA. In Monika Hölscher, Viola Krause and Thomas Lutz (Eds.). Geschichte und Geschichtsbilder - Der erste und zweite Weltkrieg im internationalen Vergleich, Hessische Landeszentrale fuer politische Bildung, (POLIS 57): Wiesbaden.
• 2016. Zwischen Ehre und Exil. Kolonialveteranen des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Frankreich und den USA. In Hans Peter Zimmermann, Andreas Kruse, and Thomas Rentsch (Eds.). Kulturen des Alterns. Plädoyers für ein gutes Leben bis ins hohe Alter. Frankfurt am Main: Campus
• 2012. Barbara Laubenthal and Ludger Pries. Migration und Alter. Eine transnationale Perspektive In Helen Baykara-Krumme, Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and Peter Schimany (Eds.) Viele Welten des Alterns? Ältere Migrantinnen und Migranten im alternden Deutschland. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 345-410.
• 2010. The new German integration policy - successes and challenges. In Alasdair Murray and Martin Adahl (Eds.) Migration – Europe’s challenge. London: CentreForum, 76-86.
• 2007. ‘Der Tod braucht keine Papiere’. Die Rolle der Printmedien bei den Protesten illegaler Einwanderer in Spanien In Barbara Pfetsch and Silke Adam (Eds.) Medien als Akteure im politischen Prozess. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 266-284.
• 2007. Entre el mercado y el estado. La formación del movimiento pro-regularización suizo. In Suarez-Navaz, L. (Ed.) Las luchas de los sin papeles y la extensión de la ciudadanía. Madrid: traficantes de sueños.
• 2005. La emergencia de protestas de inmigrantes sin papeles en España: El caso de la Región de Murcia. In Pedreño, Andrés&Hernández, Manuel (Eds.) La condición inmigrante. Exploraciones e investigaciones desde la Región de Murcia. Murcia: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia.
• Working papers and other publications
• 2022. Execution in Texas. The Many Deaths of Carl Buntio, Balls and Strikes (ballsandstrikes.org), June 2022
• 2012. Labour migration governance in contemporary Europe. The German case. Turin: FIERI.
• 2011. Barbara Laubenthal and Patricia Pielage. European Task Force on Irregular Migrations. What are the Costs of National Non-Regularization Policies for the Local Level? Country report Germany. Paris: IFRI.
• 2009. The role of economic-non-state actors in labour migration policies: The German case in the European context. CeSPI Issue paper, February 2009, Rome.
• 2008. Two steps forward, one step back. Recent trends in German migration policy. CeSPI Country paper, June 2008, Rome.
• Conference and workshop presentations (since 2015)
• Vastly different and equally bad. Living conditions on death rows across the United States. Death Row incarceration. Conference by the University of Texas Capital Punishment Center, Austin, TX, 4/8/2022.
• Social rights of death row prisoners in the United States. Social Justice Research Forum at the University of Texas at Austin, 4/30/2021.
• The Role of Memory in Current German and European Refugee Policies. Conference Migration, Exile, Transitional Justice and Memory between Europe and Latin America. Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, 11/22/2019 (invited talk)
• Refugee Policies as Labor Migration Policies? The Integration of Refugees in Germany. 30th Anniversary SASE meeting, The New School for Social Research, New York City, 6/30/2019
• Migrant precarity in Europe. Workshop Precarious Statuses of Migrants. Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration, University of Pennsylvania, 5/23/2019 (invited talk)
• Facing the present by using the past - immigration and the politics of memory. A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, Central Library, Brooklyn, NY, 2/03/2019 (invited talk)
• Art and Politics. Graphic Novels on Migration and European Immigration Policies. Conference Migration in Comics and Graphic Novels, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 10/06/2018 (invited talk)
• The Borders of Europe: Death and Political Activism in the Mediterranean, Conference Migration, Discipline and Displacement, UT Austin, 4/26/2018 (invited talk)
• Right-wing populism after the Holocaust - the role of the past in Germany’s current asylum policies, APPAM International Conference “Public Policy and Governance Beyond Borders”, Brussels, Belgium, 7/12/2017
• Erinnerungskulturen an den Zweiten Weltkrieg im globaler Perspektive. Konferenz Geschichte und Geschichtsbilder: Der Erste und Zweite Weltkrieg im internationalen Vergleich. Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Grünberg/Hessen, 10/30/2015 (invited talk)
• Veränderungen in der deutschen Arbeitsmigrationspolitik. Das Zusammenspiel zwischen nationaler und europäischer Ebene. International Conference Labour Migration and Migrants’ Integration in Germany and Russia: A Comparative Approach, Saint Petersburg State University, 4/10/2015

• 02/2015 Manila, Philippines, in cooperation with Prof. Ricardo T. José, Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman
• 10/2014 San Jose State University, USA, Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
• 06/2014 Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat, Morocco
• 11/2013&02/2014 Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris, France
• 09/2010 German Historical Institute, London, UK