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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · 23d

Come and join Anke, Tanja, and me at @uni-konstanz.de. The deadline for applications to the LiVV project within @excinequality.bsky.social‬ is September 24.

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Sep 6

Street-level bureaucrats keep discretionary power elsewhere in this domain. The differences within the same state are especially troublesome. Not all Länder collect data on their citizenship decisions. Germany remains a "data desert". Replication data are here: search.gesis.org/research_dat...

GESIS-Suche

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Sep 6

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A local conservative mood lowered the chance of Turkish citizens keeping their passports when applying for German citizenship. The 2024 reform eliminated local and regional discretion for decisions on dual citizenship requests.

Subnational principals and Turkish passports: administrative inequality in German citizenship policy

This article analyses inequalities in the implementation of citizenship policy in Germany. In this key migrant destination, federal authorities decide on citizenship law but delegate its implementa...

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Sep 6

10.1080/1369183x.2025.2550130 New article on administrative inequality in the handling of dual citizenship requests, co-authored with the incredible Christina Zuber as part of our @excinequality.bsky.social projects. We show that local preferences influence caseworkers' decisions.

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Aug 22

Anke Hoeffler, Tanja Kupisch, and I are happy to announce three doctoral positions in the project "Lifting the Veil of Violence: Inequality and Representation after War” (LiVV) at ‪the Cluster of Excellence @excinequality.bsky.social‬ at @uni-konstanz.de‬.
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

3 Doctoral Positions in LiVV – Project Cluster “The Politics of Inequality”

Deadline: September 24, 2025

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · Feb 13

What explains asylum recognition rates? Utilizing a German refugee survey and a quasi-natural experiment in Germany, L. Gundacker, Y. Kosyakova, and G. Schneider show how regional political biases can influence an asylum seeker’s chance of obtaining protection.

#OpenAccess

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is a superb article. Congrats!

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Jun 8

Interview translated into Persian with some colleagues and me on trade, sanctions, and the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the USA. An issue that is tragically neglected, probably due to the constant distractions from the White House. eghtesaad24.ir/fa/news/3057....

چشم انداز و فرصت‌های سرمایه گذاری آمریکا در ایران کدامند؟/ ترامپ نمی‌گذارد نتانیاهو جلوی توافق با تهران را بگیرد | اقتصاد24

اخیرا بحث سرمایه گذاری آمریکا در ایران مطرح شده و مقامات کشورمان نیز با این مسئله مخالفتی را ابراز نکرده و حتی مسعود پزشکیان از آن نیز استقبال کرده است، اما این

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Mar 17

Nein, das kenne ich nicht. Ich bin aber überaus dankbar für den Hinweis. G.S.

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Mar 17

Informatives Interview bei @ntvde.bsky.social zu Ergebnissen aus verschiedenen Projekten @excinequality.bsky.social @fgz-risc.bsky.social mit Maren Lüdecke & Stefanie Rueß www.n-tv.de/panorama/Dam...

"Damit werden Asylanträge in Deutschland zur Lotterie"

Die Gleichheit vor dem Gesetz gehört zum Fundament des Rechtsstaats - und kommt in Deutschland zunehmend in Bedrängnis. Eine Forschergruppe warnt vor "administrativer Diskriminierung". So variieren di...

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Feb 13

Now assigned to the March issue of Migration Studies.

Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · Feb 13

What explains asylum recognition rates? Utilizing a German refugee survey and a quasi-natural experiment in Germany, L. Gundacker, Y. Kosyakova, and G. Schneider show how regional political biases can influence an asylum seeker’s chance of obtaining protection.

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Feb 5

but that there are also surprising parallels between the two most prolific senders. Early support by @dfg.de‬ is gratefully acknowledged.

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Gerald Schneider @geraldschneider.bsky.social · Feb 5

New article on economic coercion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with Patrick Weber and Alessia Invernizzi, two former @uni-konstanz.de‬ doctoral students We show that the sanction regimes of both the EU and the USA are biased,

Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions - Gerald Schneider, Patrick M Weber, Alessia Invernizzi, 2025

This article examines the biases the two most important senders of economic sanctions, the European Union and the United States, frequently introduce into their...

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