Franziska Lena Ziegler

Franziska Ziegler is a researcher of the Migration Policy Research Group at the University of Hildesheim. She was a member of the projects SOLDISK – Discourses on solidarity in the context of migration and Two worlds apart? Comparing local integration politics in urban and rural municipalities. Prior to her current occupation, Franziska was a researcher at the German Institute for Human Rights, working for the research network of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRANET). She studied political science and international law at Maastricht, Amsterdam and Vancouver. During her studies she gained experience as a research and editorial assistant in both fields of study and interned, amongst others, with the German Foreign Office and the European Commission.

Study reports

• Kühn, Boris; Ziegler, Franziska (2024). Weiter am Limit? Zur Lage der Kommunen bei der Aufnahme Geflüchteter. Befragung mit dem Mediendienst Integration.
• Hannes Schammann, Petra Bendel, Sandra Müller, Franziska Ziegler & Tobias Wittchen (2020). Zwei Welten? Integrationspolitik in Stadt und Land. Stuttgart: Robert Bosch Stiftung.

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

• Marianne Kneuer, Michael Corsten, Hannes Schammann, Patrick Kahle, Stefan Wallaschek & Franziska Ziegler (2022). Claiming solidarity. A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity. European Journal of Social Theory, 25(3), 366-385, https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310211045794
• Hannes Schammann, Danielle Gluns, Christiane Heimann, Sandra Müller, Tobias Wittchen, Christin Younso & Franziska Ziegler (2021). Defining and transforming local migration policies: a conceptual approach backed by evidence from Germany. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(13), https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1902792 (open access)
• Stefan Wallaschek & Franziska Ziegler (2021). Making Sense of the ‘New Normal’: The COVID-19 Crisis in the Communication of the Prime Ministers of Ireland and New Zealand. Culture, Practice and Europeanization, 6(1), 112-134, doi.org/10.5771/2566-7742-2021-1-112 (open access)

Working papers

• Danielle Kasparick, Hannes Schammann, Christiane Heimann, Sandra Müller,  Christin Younso & Franziska Ziegler (2024). Cities and transnational migration policymaking: assessing the factors that shape transnational engagement. MPRG Working Paper 01/2024.
• Franziska Ziegler & Hannes Schammann (2021). Detecting Theoretical Concepts in Large Corpora. Solidarity in the plenary debates of the German Bundestag. MPRG Working Paper 02/2021.

Miscellaneous

• Sandra Müller & Franziska Ziegler (2020). Interkommunale Kooperation in der Integrationsarbeit – so wichtig wie ausbaufähig. Land-Zuhause-Zukunft Blog.
• Christin Younso & Franziska Ziegler (2020). Migration, Solidarität und die Corona-Krise – Ein Spannungsverhältnis. Fluchtforschungsblog.
• Franziska Ziegler (2020). Die Zivilgesellschaft als Motor lokaler Integrationspolitik. In Zusammen leben, zusammen wachsen – Programmheft der Interkulturellen Woche 2020, S.20-23.
• Franziska Ziegler (2016). ILDC 434 (DE 2003). BVerfG, 2 BvR 1198/03 – Relationship between national fundamental rights and international legal obligations. Case note at Oxford Law Reports (International Law in Domestic Courts).

• 2022_23_winter term: Solidarity in Diverse Societies | University of Hildesheim
• 2021_summer term: EU Politics and Governance | University of Hildesheim
• 2020_21_winter term: The German Political System | University of Hildesheim
• 2020_21_winter term: (Inter-) National Migration Policy and Politics | DHBW
• 2020_summer term: Migration - Participation - Solidarity | University of Hildesheim (with Christin Younso)
• 2020_summer term: (Inter-) National Migration Policy and Politics | DHBW
• 2019_20_winter term: Comparative Politics and Governance | University of Hildesheim