Verena Stern

Verena Stern is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, and a research associate in the DFG-funded project "Welcome or Reviled? A Comparative Study of Reactions to Accommodations for Asylum Seekers." Previously, she worked as a research associate at the University of Vienna in the DA-CH project "Taking Sides: Protests against Deportations of Asylum Seekers."

Her educational background includes a degree in Political Science from the University of Vienna.

Her primary research interests encompass:

• Protests against refugees
• Pro-migrant protests
• Deportations
• Right-wing extremism
• Asylum policy in Germany and Austria
• Non-citizenship

Ms. Stern's work examines polarized societal responses to migration, analyzing both anti-refugee mobilization and pro-migrant solidarity movements within the German and Austrian contexts. Her research bridges political sociology, migration studies, and social movement theory.

She has secured research funding through competitive grants including the German Research Foundation (DFG) project and the DA-CH collaborative initiative, focusing on empirical analysis of community reactions to asylum policies and deportation protests.