Ulrike Schultz is a professor of development sociology at Friedensau Adventist University. She is the Head of the Master Program Development Studies. Before coming to Friedensau, she taught in Berlin, Bochum, and Khartoum. Her main research fields are migration, refugee & mobility studies, and gender & intersectionality. In current research projects, she looks at belonging and citizenship in the context of migration in the two Sudans and on educational trajectories in Northern Kenya. Her regional focus lies in North East Africa and East Africa.
MIASA Project: Beyond categories: (Im)mobility, displacement and return in Sudan
Sudan and South Sudan are part of a region in which insecurities, war and economic crisis are jeopardizing the livelihood security of people. People respond to this situation by being mobile, creating translocal livelihoods and developing multiple senses of belonging. Based on a multisided ethnography over a long period in Sudan and South Sudan, I want to scrutinize how people on the move negotiate the categorization of the migration regime and try to create meaningful lives beyond categories. In addition to the data I collected in Khartoum, Juba and Kampala from 2007 to 2023, I will conduct online interviews with interlocutors who are have been displaced to Cairo and Uganda after the outbreak of the war in April 2023. I will look at their migration trajectories and scrutinize how they are shaped by international migration policies on the one side and the agency and the social networks of the migrant on the other side.
Selected publications
Schultz, U. (Forthcoming). Aspiring to a normal life: (Im)mobility and translocal livelihoods in the Sudan(s). Transfers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 14 (2) Berghahn.
Britwum, A. & Schultz; U. (2024) (eds). Negotiating Tenure Rights: Gender and Land Commodification in Africa, Baden Baden, Nomos,
Schultz, U. (2023): „Die Kinder gehen jetzt zur Schule“: Aspirationen, Entwicklungsdiskurs und Schulbildung in Lodwar, Nordkenia von 1989-2022. PERIPHERIE Nr. 171/172, 43. Jg. 2023, https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v43i2.03, S. 255-282
Schultz; U. “Don’t call me a Foreigner”: Place Making in Khartoum and Juba between 2006 -2018. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 22(1): 53 -70
Schultz, U. (2021). Becoming an Expert and Negotiating Development: A Development Studies Program in Germany. In: Kalfelis, Melina C. und Kathrin Knodel (eds) NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa. Transdisciplinary Perspectives. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books: 73 -93.
