Katharina researches migration politics from a comparative perspective, with a particular focus on the role of political regimes in immigration policymaking.
Her work seeks to advance migration policy theory and to connect it with broader social science research on modern statehood and political change.
She also hopes to contribute to the wider academic effort of bridging theorisations of socio-political processes in the Global South and the Global North.
Katharina has published, inter alia, in International Migration Review, Population and Development Review, Mediterranean Politics, Third World Quarterly and the Journal of North African Studies.
The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States: Morocco and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective
Cambridge University Press, 2023
