Julia Schweers

Julia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Refugee Economies Programme. Together with Alexander Betts, she investigates the politics of refugee rights in East Africa and asks, ‘why do some states provide refugees with socio-economic rights and opportunities while others do not?’

Julia has an interdisciplinary background in Political Science, African Studies, and Social Theory, and holds a DPhil in Migration Studies. Between her master’s and her DPhil, she spent a year working in publishing, as an editor for the German monthly political magazine “Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik”.