Christin Achermann

Christin Achermann is a full professor of migration, law, and society at the University of Neuchâtel's Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, affiliated with the Laboratory for the Study of Social Processes and the Center for Migration Law since 2016. She previously served as assistant professor at the same institution from 2009 to 2015 and collaborated with the Swiss Forum for Migration Studies during her doctoral research.

• Education: PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Bern, 2008), with a thesis on foreign national offenders in Swiss prisons.
• Research Focus: Multi-level processes of migrant inclusion/exclusion through migration law, covering integration requirements, deportation, border control, undocumented migrants, securitization of migration law, and citizenship law.
• Scientific Leadership: Project leader for the National Center of Competence in Research "nccr-on the move" since its inception in 2014 (Phase 3 ongoing).
• Advising: Supervises current PhD projects on topics like SOGI asylum cases, pandemic impacts on asylum regimes, social welfare bureaucracy, and privatization of asylum reception. Former advisees have completed dissertations on crimmigration control, immigration detention, and security rationalities in Swiss asylum policies.

Her work combines socio-legal analysis with ethnographic methods, examining how legal frameworks and bureaucratic practices shape migrant experiences. She also contributes to teaching at both bachelor's and master's levels, offering courses on migration studies, bureaucracy, and socio-legal perspectives.