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Clara Schmitz-Pranghe

Clara Schmitz-Pranghe

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+49 228 911 96-78

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clara.schmitz-pranghe(at)bicc.de

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Research Profile

Clara's research focuses on the topic of forced migration, in particular, on local integration, return and reintegration as well as on transnational mobility and networks and has conducted field research in Germany, Peru, Ecuador, Uganda, Thailand, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Over the past years, she investigated reintegration trajectories of returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia in the framework of the multi-year qualitative research project “Trajectories of reintegration: The impact of displacement, migration and return on social change”. She's currently working on the qualitative research project “Return and belonging after conflict-induced displacement (RE-MIG) focusing on Western Balkan countries.

Research Topics / Key Expertise

Forced displacement, local integration, return and (re-) integration

Transnational networks and mobility

Non-state armed actors

Countries Of Expertise

  • Bosnia-Herzegovina,
  • Serbia,
  • Thailand,
  • Uganda,
  • Ecuador,
  • Peru

Professional Career

Clara graduated in Regional Sciences of Latin America at the University of Cologne, a course of studies which combines political science, economics, Ibero–American history and Spanish. During her studies she spent one semester in Spain and several months in Mexico and Peru. In her thesis, she examined the structural change of violence in the post-conflict context of Central America analysing Central American youth gangs. In 2006, she joined BICC and worked since then on various projects in the field of conflict studies and forced migration studies.

Important Publications

Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

The Role of Mobility, Networks and Reintegration Assistance after Return. Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia

BICC , Bonn (2023)

Open

Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Oruč, N., & Mielke, K., & Ibričević, A.

Making sure that the emigration of health-care personnel from Albania and BiH works for all: What Germany can do

BICC , Bonn (2020)

Open

Horstmann, A., & Rudolf, M., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Cyclical, temporary, no return. Multiple navigational strategies of displaced persons from Myanmar

(2019)

Open

Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Schutz, Versöhnung und Zugang zu Rechten für Geflüchtete in Ecuador

BICC , Bonn (2018)

Open

Warnecke, A., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Diasporaengagement für Entwicklung und Frieden. Handlungsspielräume und Kapazitäten der äthiopischen Diaspora in Deutschland

BAMF, GIZ , Nürnberg (2011)

Open

Publications

Mielke, K., & Şahin-Mencütek, Z., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Vollmer, R.

Zurück zu Hause oder zurück "in der Hölle"?

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (2023)

Open

Şahin-Mencütek, Z., & Mielke, K., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Vollmer, R.

When Returning Home Feels Like Hell

IPS Journal (2023)

Open

Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

The Role of Mobility, Networks and Reintegration Assistance after Return. Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia

BICC , Bonn (2023)

Open

Rudolf, M., & Schetter, C., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Kriege und Konflikte - Zentrale Trends globaler Flucht

Oekom Verlag , München (2022)

Open

Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Oruč, N., & Mielke, K., & Ibričević, A.

Making sure that the emigration of health-care personnel from Albania and BiH works for all: What Germany can do

BICC , Bonn (2020)

Open

Rudolf, M., & Schetter, C., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

"Leaving them behind" - Global trends in forced migration

BICC , Bonn (2020)

Open

Horstmann, A., & Rudolf, M., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Cyclical, temporary, no return. Multiple navigational strategies of displaced persons from Myanmar

(2019)

Open

Debiel, T., & Hinz, S., & Johannsen, M., & Saalfeld, J., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Vollmer, R.

Nachhaltiger Frieden: Flucht und Gewalt

LIT , Berlin (2019)

Open

Bohnet, H., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Uganda: A role model for refugee integration?

BICC , Bonn (2019)

Open

Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Schutz, Versöhnung und Zugang zu Rechten für Geflüchtete in Ecuador

BICC , Bonn (2018)

Open

Rudolf, M., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Beyond aid: The continuous struggle to cope with displacement in Myanmar and Thailand

BICC , Bonn (2018)

Open

Müller-Koné, M., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Schetter, C.

Flucht und Binnenvertreibung in Asien: Ansatzpunkte für und Grenzen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

BICC , Bonn (2017)

Open

von Boemcken, M., & Ashkenazi, M., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Commercial security and development: Findings from Timor-Leste, Liberia and Peru

BICC , Bonn (2012)

Open

Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Central American youth gangs – A transnational social conflict. Digital Development Debates, Issue 5.

(2011)

Open

Warnecke, A., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Diasporaengagement für Entwicklung und Frieden. Handlungsspielräume und Kapazitäten der äthiopischen Diaspora in Deutschland

BAMF, GIZ , Nürnberg (2011)

Open

Warnecke, A., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Diasporas and peace: A comparative assessment of Somali and Ethiopian communities in Europe

BICC , Bonn (2010)

Open

Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Modes and potential of diaspora engagement in Eritrea (DIASPEACE Working Paper No. 3).

(2010)

Open

Höhne, M., & Feyissa, D., & Abdile, M., & Schmitz-Pranghe, C.

Differentiating the diaspora: Reflections on diasporic engagement ‘for peace’ in the Horn of Africa (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers No. 124).

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology , Halle/Saale (2010)

Open