Mira Wallis
Profile
Mira Wallis is an associate member at BIM and a doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE) at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Until March 2025, Mira Wallis was a research associate at BIM, where she worked, among other projects, on the DFG-funded project "Digitalisation of Labour and Migration". Previously, she held positions at the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) and the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organisation (ISKO) at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She completed her M.A. at the IfEE and her B.A. at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin, with study visits abroad in Cape Town and Istanbul.
Her dissertation investigates digital platform labour (so-called crowdwork) in Germany and Romania, situating this new form of home-based work at the intersection of digital labour, (im)mobility, and social reproduction. The project seeks to understand how crowdwork platforms reconfigure forms and practices of mobility and immobility, thereby transforming not only relations of production but also conditions of reproduction.
Research Interests
- Labour, mobility and migration
- Digital transformation, platform economy and crowdwork
- Social reproduction and (digital) home-based work
Selected Publications
- 2025 (Forthcoming): »Digital Labour Mobility and the Crisis of Social Reproduction. Home-based Platform Workers in Eastern Europe«. In: Gabriella, A., Lonergan, G., Riedner, L. (eds.): Migration and Social Reproduction. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- 2025 (Forthcoming): »Platform Mobilities: Migration and Digital Labour«. In: Bulut, E., Chen, J., Grohmann, R. und Jarrett, K. (eds.): SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE (with Moritz Altenried and Manuela Bojadžijev).
- 2021: »Digital Labour and Social Reproduction – Crowdwork in Germany and Romania«. In: Spheres. Journal for Digital Cultures. #6 Politics of Reproduction.
- 2021: »Logistical Futures. The Chinese Dream, Debordering Labor and Migration«. In: Dutta, M. and Heidenreich, N. (eds.): Fake Hybrid Sites Palimpsest. Essays on Leakages. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 158–172, (with Moritz Altenried und Manuela Bojadžijev).
- 2021: Digital Labor Between Germany and Romania. In: EASTEAST.
- 2021: Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion [Platform Capitalism and the Crisis of Social Reproduction]. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot (edited volume with Moritz Altenried and Julia Dück).
- 2020: »Die ›Caring Crowd‹: Wenn hinter dem Label KI eigentlich digitale Heimarbeit steckt [The ›Caring Crowd‹: Digital Home-based Labour behind AI]«. In: Berliner Gazette (with Moritz Altenried und Manuela Bojadžijev).
- 2020: »Platform Im/mobilities: Migration and the Gig Economy in Times of Covid-19«, In: Routed. Migration & (Im)Mobility Magazine, 10 (with Moritz Altenried und Manuela Bojadžijev).
- 2018: »Zurück in die Zukunft: Digitale Heimarbeit [Back to the Future: Digital Home-Based Labour]«. In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften 4/2018, 24–27 (with Moritz Altenried).
- 2018: »Logistics under Construction. Fantasies and Frictions of Mobility in the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Region«. In: Berliner Blätter 78, 27-55 (with Franziska Baum, Patrick DeDauw, Carmen Grimm, Laura Lambert, Žiga Podgornik-Jakil, Fabian Stark).
- 2018: »Researching Labour Mobility in Digital Times«. In: Border Criminologies Blog, University of Oxford (with Moritz Altenried und Manuela Bojadžijev).
- 2018: Logistical Borderscapes. Politics and Mediation of Mobile Labor in Germany after the „Summer of Migration“. In: South Atlantic Quarterly 117(2), 291-312 (with Moritz Altenried, Manuela Bojadžijev, Leif Höfler, Sandro Mezzadra).
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