Gian Mecheril
- Research Associate at the BIM in the department
Migration in globalal perspective
Profile
Gian Mecheril is a research assistant (Praedoc) in the “Migration in a Global Perspective” department at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research and at the Institute for European Ethnology. His research focuses, among other things, on racist logics of differentiation and their relationship to conceptions of humanity.
Gian Mecheril earned his M.A. at the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism (ZfA) at the Technical University of Berlin and his B.A. in Political Science and Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
Research Focus
- Theory and Research on Racism
- (Critical) Migration Studies
- Refigurations of Social Systems of Difference
- Conceptions of the (Non-)Human
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 2025: Research Assistant (research and teaching, pre-doctoral) at the Institute for European Ethnology and the Berlin Institute for Empirical Migration Research, Department of Migration in a Global Perspective
- 2024–2025: Freelance consultant at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Migration Division)
- 2019–2023: Student assistant at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research, Department of Integration Research and Social Policy
- 2024: Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research on Antisemitism, Center for Research on
Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin - 2018: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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