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Sylvana Jahre

Associate Member

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Geography Department
Rudower Chaussee 16
12489 Berlin

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sylvana.jahre@geo.hu-berlin.de

CV

  • Studies

  • 10/2015 – 10/2016

    Cinematography studies at Filmarche e.V. Berlin

  • 09/2013

    Diploma in Geography, Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Title of my thesis: Production of space through boundaries? – An analysis of everyday life practices in refugee shelters in Berlin.

  • 02/2011 – 12/2011

    University of Melbourne, Australia (Exchange Postgraduate Scholarship)

  • 01/2010 – 06/2010

    Lund University, Sweden (ERASMUS Scholarship)

  • 10/2006 – 09/2013

    Study of Geography with minor subjects Social Science and Urban and Regional Planning, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • Work Experience

  • since 01/2016

    Research Associate
    Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Economic Geography

  • 02/2014 – 12/2015

    Project Coordinator
    Geography Department: Preparation and implementation of the German Congress of Geography

  • 03/2012 – 12/2012

    Internship MitOst e.V. Berlin
    Cultural and artistic exchange projects between EU and Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey, Arab Countries

  • 04/2011 – 10/2011

    Research Assistant for Prof. Alison Young
    University of Melbourne, Australia on street art and city spaces

  • 05/2009 – 01/2011

    Student Assistant for Prof. Ilse Helbrecht
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geography Department, Cultural and Social Geography

Research Focus

    • Urban Studies

    • Refugee and forced migration

    • Urban citizenship

    • Processes of sociospatial inclusion & exclusion

Dissertation

Title PhD project: Participation through integration management? An analysis of the program BENN – Berlin develops new neighborhoods (working title)

Short description PhD project:
Despite it’s ongoing criticism, Germany has adopted as common procedure to accommodate refugees in large shelters. Thus, calling for a political and social integration of refugees in accordance to their environment is highly contradictory. In this antagonistic situation Berlin has launched its new urban development program BENN – Berlin enwickelt neue Nachbarschaften – “Berlin develops new neighborhoods”, which aim to include both, refugees and neighbors. Hence, the central question of my dissertation project asks why sociospatial processes and integration are closely linked and what conflicts evolve through the negotiation processes. The basis of this is formed through the assumption that there are overarching mechanisms of action, that influence the local room of manoeuvring and directly affect neighborhood processes.

Publications

  • Papers

    • Jahre, Sylvana (2014): Refugee reception and the social production of space: the case of Berlin. Working Paper. IMISCOE Conference on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion.

  • Presentations

    • Refugee homes, communal integration policies and migrant living conditions. Panel at the Conference of the Refugee Research Network together with René Kreichauf. Osnabrück 8 October 2016.

    • Exploring and applying Henri Lefebvres work on social production of space. Research Workshop Refugees in European Localities: Reception, Perception and Policies. TU Chemnitz 17 March 2015.

    • Refugee reception and the social production of space: the case of Berlin. Presentation at the IIMISCOE Conference on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion. Madrid 28 August 2014.

    • Production of Space through Boundaries – An analysis of everyday life practices in refugee shelters in Berlin. Conference of the Network Critical Geography: Unequal development. Geography of the crisis and spaces of resistance. Frankfurt a.M. 29 June 2013.