Lea Giulia Reiß | University of Tübingen

Lea Giulia Reiß (Reiss)

PhD Researcher

Biography

After having completed a Bachelor’s programme in social work at the DHBW Stuttgart, Lea continued to study political science and sociology (B.A.) and Democracy and Governance in Europe (M.A.) at the University of Tübingen. In addition to two semesters at ULiège and Sciences Po Paris, Lea also lived and worked in Canada, the United Kingdom and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Between 2019 and 2021, Lea conducted qualitative research for the project Migration and Social Protection (MiSP), followed by the project Regulating Return Migration in the EU (2022-2023), for which she collected and analysed emigrant return policies across the European Union. For her PhD, Lea is currently researching the politics of emigration in Europe.

Research Interest

Lea focuses on the intersection of public policy and migration in the EU context and is especially interested in social policy and welfare, gender and sexuality and intersecting inequalities.

Publications

Ratzmann, N., Reiß, L. and Bruzelius, C. (forthcoming): Deutsche Sozialpolitik in der Praxis: Zwischen Unterstützung und Migrationskontrolle. In: Borelli, L., Kurt, S. and Ratzmann, N. (ed.): Die Verschränkung von Migrationskontrolle und Sozialpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.

Bruzelius, C., Ratzmann, N. and Reiss, L. (2023): Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice. In: Journal of European Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287221150182 .

Bruzelius, C., Ratzmann, N. and Reiß, L. (2022): Überbrückungsleistungen für EU-Bürger/-innen in Deutschland: Instrument sozialer Absicherung oder Migrationskontrolle? In: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 68 (3-4), pp. 237-266. https://doi.org/10.1515/zsr-2022-0010 .

Reiß, L. and Seeleib-Kaiser, M. (2022): Sozialpolitik. In: Socialnet (ed.) Socialnet Lexikon. Bonn. Available at: https://www.socialnet.de/lexikon/Sozialpolitik.

Academic Presentations

Reiss, L. (2024): ‘Desired Emigrant Citizens: The (Re)Production of Citizen Hierarchies through Selective Return Policy’, ESPAnet, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, 28-30 August 2024.

Bruzelius, C., Reiss, L. and Afscharian, D. (2024): ‘More welfare to retain citizens? Social policy responses to EU free movement and emigration’, IDEAS conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 15-17 May 2024.

Bruzelius, C. and Reiß, L. (2023): 'Encouraging citizens' return: Mapping return policies across the EU', 29th Conference of Europeanists, Reykjavik, Iceland, 27-29 June 2023.

Bruzelius C. and Reiß, L. (2022): 'Why do states want their citizens back? Regulating return migration in the EU', Workshop 'Tackling emigration in Eu member states - the welfare dimension', Bremen, Germany, 6-7 October 2022.