Key expertise
Ruth Vollmer has been working on European migration policies, the role of migrant organisations in integration and development processes, consequences of environmentally induced migration, migration and displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the nexus between migration and security. Previously she supported research on renewable resource management and the global monitoring of environmental and climate change.
(Academic) education / CV:
Ruth Vollmer studied Linguistics, Political Science and Psychology at the University of Bonn. She received her MA in June 2008.
During her studies, Ruth Vollmer worked as a freelancer with the German Commission for UNESCO and later became a Research Associate with the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU EHS). In her Master thesis, she applied a critical discourse analysis approach to the press coverage on the second German “Integrationsgipfel”.
Recent Publications:
- Vollmer, R. (2019, November). Agency and livelihood-making in protracted displacement: Key insights and recommendations for development cooperation — Synthesis report of the research project "Protected rather than protracted" (BICC Working Paper series No. 10/2019). Bonn: BICC.
- Vollmer, R. (2019, October). Overcoming protracted displacement: Criteria for development programmes in protracted displacement (BICC Policy Brief series No. 9/2019). Bonn: BICC.
- Debiel, T., Hinz, S., Johannsen, M., Saalfeld, J., Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Vollmer, R. (2019). Nachhaltiger Frieden: Flucht und Gewalt. In BICC, HSFK, IFSH, & INEF (Eds.), Friedensgutachten 2019 (pp. 71-91). Berlin: LIT.
- Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Vollmer, R. (Eds.). (2019, March). Breaking cycles of displacement (BICC Knowledge Notes series No. 2/2019). Bonn: BICC.
- Bohnet, H., Mielke, K., Rudolf, M., Schetter, C., & Vollmer, R. (2015, December). Protected rather than protracted: Strengthening displaced persons in peace processes (BICC Working Paper series No. 3/2015). Bonn: BICC.
- Vollmer, R., & von Boemcken, M. (2014). Europa off limits: Aufrüstung an den EU-Außengrenzen. In I. Werkner, J. Kursawe, M. Johannsen, B. Schoch, & M. von Boemcken (Eds.), Friedensgutachten 2014 (pp. 126-139). Berlin: LIT.
- Vollmer, R. (2014). Migration im Fokus der Medien: Die Zeit des „Arabischen Frühlings“. In E. Bettermann, & R. Grätz (Eds.), Zwischen den Fronten. Grenzen neutraler Berichterstattung (pp. 83-98). Göttingen: Steidl.
- Vollmer, R. (2014). "Europäische Migrations- und Außengrenzpolitik – Wege aus der Sackgasse?". Sicherheit und Frieden, 32(1), 53-60.
- Saracino, D. (2012). Media-Conflict-Migration—The conflict potential of the media coverage regarding migration from the countries of the Arab Spring to Europe. Conference Report. Stuttgart/Berlin: Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa).
- Vollmer, R., & Scheffran, J. (2012). Migration und Klimawandel: globale Verantwortung der EU statt Angstdebatte. In B. Schoch, C. Hauswedell, J. Kursawe, & M. Johannsen (Eds.), Friedensgutachten 2012 (pp. 209-221). Berlin: LIT Verlag.
- Croll, P., & Vollmer, R. (2011). Kompetenzzentrum Diaspora.
- Vollmer, R., & Warnecke, A. (2011, April). Migration – Integration – Entwicklung. Afrikanische Migrantenorganisationen in NRW (Brief series No. 44). Bonn: BICC.
- Vollmer, R. (2010). Wie sicher ist die Sicherheit? Flucht und Migration. Afrikapost: Magazin für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, No. 4, 26-28.
- Croll, P., & Vollmer, R. (2010). Interkulturelle Woche Thüringen 2010. Die Rolle von Migrantenorganisationen in der Integrationsarbeit.
- Warnecke, A., Tänzler, D., & Vollmer, R. (2010). Climate change, migration and conflict: Receiving communities under pressure?.
- Schmitz-Pranghe, C., & Vollmer, R. (Eds.). (2009, April). Migration and displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa: The security-migration nexus II (Brief series No. 39). Bonn: BICC.
- Vollmer, R., Ardakanian, R., Hare, M., Leentvaar, J., van der Schaaf, C., & Wirkus, L. (2009). Institutional capacity development in transboundary water management.
- Wirkus, L., & Vollmer, R. (Eds.). (2008, July). Monitoring environment and security: Integrating concepts and enhancing methodologies (Brief series No. 37). Bonn: BICC.
Projects:
- Trajectories of reintegration: The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change
- Protected rather than protracted—Strengthening refugees and peace
- G-SEXTANT
- 9th International South Sudan and Sudan Studies Conference
- African migrant organizations (MO) in North Rhine-Westphalia – Forms of organization and activities
- GMF transatlantic study team on climate-induced migration
- Resource conflict monitor
- Forced migration
