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Chairholder

Sarah Hähnle

Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling

Chair of Sociology with a Specialization in the Areas of Migration and Integration
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A 5, 6 Bauteil B – Raum 101
68159 Mannheim
Consultation hour(s):
by appointment
  • Curriculum Vitae

    Marc Helbling ist W3 Professor im Fachbereich Soziologie und am Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) der Universität Mannheim. Zuvor war er W3 Professor an der Universität Bamberg und Leiter der Emmy-Noether Nachwuchsgruppe ‘Immigration Policies in Comparison’ (IMPIC) am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). Er ist zur Zeit Associate Editor der International Migration Review und des Journal of Ethnic and Migration.

    Er war Gastdozent an der Woodrow Wilson School der Universität Princeton und Gastforscher an der Universität Harvard, der New York University, des Europäischen Hochschulinstituts (EUI) in Florenz und der City University of New York (CUNY). Er verbrachte kürzere Forschungsaufenthalte u. a. an der Universität Oxford, der Universität Sydney und der Universität McGill.

    Er arbeitet zu Migrations- und Staatsbürgerschaftspolitik, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Islamophobie, populistische und extremistische Einstellungen, Ursachen von Migration sowie Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten. Seine Arbeiten erschienen in Soziologiezeitschriften (e.g., European Sociological Review, Social Forces) in politikwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften (e.g., British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research) und Migrationszeitschriften (e.g., International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies). Er hat ein Buch zu 'Islamophobia in the West' (Routledge) herausgegeben und ist Ko-Autor des Buches 'Political Conflict in Western Europe' (Cambridge UP).

    Er studierte Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Lausanne und am Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris und wurde an der Universität Zürich in Politikwissenschaft promoviert.

  • Professional Career

    01/21 – presentMember, Expert Council on Integration and Migration, Berlin
    08/20 – presentFull professor of sociology of migration and integration (W3), University of Mannheim, Department of Sociology and Mannheim Center for European Social Research
    05/16 – presentResearch Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
    04/15 – 07/20Full professor of political sociology (W3), University of Bamberg, Department of Political Science
    05/11 – 04/16Head of Emmy-Noether research group Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC), WZB Berlin Social Science Center
    02/14 – 05/14Lecturer, University of Lucerne, Department for Political Science
    06/10 – 06/15Elected member of The Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    02/09 – 04/11Senior Researcher, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, research unit 'Migration, Integration und Transnationlization'
    12/02 – 01/09Lecturer (07 – 09)/ researcher and teaching assistant (02 – 07), University of Zurich, Center of Comparative and National Studies
    02/02 – 11/02Research assistant, University of Lausanne, Department for Political and International Studies

     

  • Selected Publications

    • Marc Helbling and Daniel Meierrieks (2020): “Transnational Terrorism and Restrictive Immigration Policies”, Journal of Peace Research 57(4): 564–580.
    • Marc Helbling (2020): “Attitudes Towards Climate Change Migrants”, Climatic Change 160(1): 89–102.
    • Marc Helbling and Richard Traunmüller (2020): “What is Islamophobia? Disentangling Citizens’ Feelings Towards Ethnicity, Religion and Religiosity Using a Survey Experiment”, British Journal of Political Science 50(3): 811–828.
    • Conrad Ziller and Marc Helbling (2019): “Antidiscrimination Laws, Policy Knowledge, and Political Support”, British Journal of Political Science 49(3): 1027-1044.
    • Marc Helbling and David Leblang (2019): “Controlling immigration? How regulations affect migration flows”, European Journal of Political Research 58(1): 248–269.
    • Marc Helbling, Liv Bjerre, Friederike Römer and Malisa Zobel (2017): “Measuring Immigration Policies: The IMPIC-Database”, European Political Science16(1):79–98.
    • Marc Helbling and Richard Traunmüller (2016): “How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison”, Comparative Political Studies 49(3): 391–424.
    • Sarah Carol, Marc Helbling and Ines Michalowski (2015): “A struggle over religious rights? How Muslim minorities and natives view the accommodation of religious rights in six European countries”, Social Forces 94(2): 647–671.
    • Marc Helbling (2014): “Opposing Muslims and the Muslim Headscarf in Western Europe”, European Sociological Review 30(2): 242–257.
    • Marc Helbling and Hanspeter Kriesi (2014): “Opposing low-skilled immigrants: Labor market competition, welfare state and deservingness”, European Sociological Review 30(5): 595–614.
    • Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Martin Dolezal, Marc Helbling, Dominic Hoeglinger, Swen Hutter and Bruno Wüest (2012): Political Conflict in Western Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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