Jessica Schmieder

Currently, Jessica Schmieder is preparing her PhD project on„Statelessness in Europe – Activist Engagements in Grassroots Organizations“ a multi-sited and embedded ethnographic study of a non-governmental grassroots organization that is mainly consisting of stateless people. This organization operates and has members all over Europe and aims to fight statelessness in all nation-states on the continent.
Her main objective of this project is to ethnographically grasp and theoretically assess the underlying factors of the production and perpetuation of statelessness in Europe. Furthermore, she aims to elaborate on opportunities and limits of stateless activists in this field and to develop, through a combination of in-depth empirical and theoretical work, an innovative perspective that helps move the debate in academia, politics, and activism concerning statelessness forward.