Victoria Reitter

Victoria Reitter is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Salzburg. She holds a BA in International Business Administration (Vienna University of Economics & Högskolan i Halmstad) and an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Vienna). Her work focuses on migration governance, statelessness, and bureaucratic decision-making processes in Austrian authorities.

• Member of the PLUS Doctorate School 'On the move: People, objects, signs'
• Member of the Salzburg Migration & Mobility Research Lab (MML)
• Research Associate in projects on deportation gaps and refugee expectations

Research interests include irregular migration, citizenship dynamics, qualitative methods, and organizational sociology. Her PhD examines statelessness identification mechanisms among flight migrants in Austria.

Key publications analyze comparative statelessness policies, local welfare provisions for non-removed asylum seekers, and methodological challenges in secretive research fields. Current work bridges legal anthropology and migration studies to challenge nation-state-centric frameworks.