Janina Stürner-Siovitz

Janina Stürner-Siovitz is a postdoctoral research fellow and project leader at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Nuremberg. She analyzes migration governance in complex multi-level systems. Taking a bottom-up perspective, she focuses on the interaction between cities, states and regional/international actors in the realization of the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees as well as in EU migration policy-making. Furthermore, Janina explores multi-stakeholder partnerships in mixed-migration contexts on the African continent in cooperation with African and European partners.

As a policy-oriented researcher she has developed evaluation processes, workshops and policy papers on behalf of organizations such as the European Commission, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (MC2CM) and various foundations. Janina is a peer reviewer for the Knowledge Platform of the UN Network on Migration and a member of the UNHCR Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) and the Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative of the Zolberg Institute. As a Visiting Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a Research Associate of the City Diplomacy Lab and a Non-Resident Fellow of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs she develops impact-oriented research on cities, migration governance and city diplomacy.