Themes
Themes and the entries that connect them.
Themes map
Index
Institutional racism
Racism in institutions such as police, courts, prisons, urban development and social work; an ORCID keyword and the stated focus of his work since the NSU’s self-exposure in 2011.
The NSU complex and memory politics
The NSU complex, the failure to fully investigate it, and struggles over remembering the victims, including the 2004 Keupstraße attack, the Birlikte events and the planned documentation centre.
Keupstraße, urban politics and socio-spatial racism
How Keupstraße and Köln-Mülheim were framed as problems, displacement and entrepreneurial urban strategies, and territorial stigmatisation; the subject of his dissertation.
Migration politics and migration regimes
German and European migration policy, from the 1973 recruitment stop to Denmark’s anti-migration policy as a model for German politicians; an ORCID keyword.
Perspectives of those affected by right-wing and racist violence
Bringing the views of survivors and relatives into research and remembrance, as in the Göttingen expert report for the bpb and the amal project at TH Köln.
Police, courts and anti-migrant vigilantism
Trial observation and writing on the Cologne-Porz shooting trial, the police killing of Mouhamed Dramé and the death of Amed Ahmad in custody.
Anti-migrant moral panics
The German clan crime debate read as an anti-migrant moral panic and racist campaign.
Migrant struggles and the history of labour migration
The 1973 Ford strike in Cologne, state responses to guest workers, and migrant antifascism and culture.
Racism theory and critique of liberal anti-racism
Theoretical work drawing on Foucault, Bourdieu and Wacquant, and critical reviews of liberal and postmigrant approaches to anti-racism.
Racism and social work
The role of social work in local configurations of institutional racism, as developed in his 2026 chapter in Rassismus und Soziale Arbeit.
Anti-Roma racism
Harassment by authorities and anti-Roma racism around Keupstraße (2021 chapter).
Centre–periphery conflict in Turkey (early work)
Co-authored comparative politics research on ideological distance between national and Kurdish parties and decentralisation in Turkey (2016).