Department of Geography

As part of the research group labour, migration and gender, I am interested in analyzing the production of labour market inequalities based on nationality, immigration status, gender and other categories of social differentiation.

Ph.D. project: Subjected through work? Refugees’ experiences in accessing the labour market in Switzerland, 2017-2021

Ph.D. Committee: PD Dr. Karin Schwiter, Prof. Dr. Christian Berndt & Prof. Dr. Yvonne Riaño

In my Ph.D. project, I examine the role of migration and integration policies in regulating the labour market access of refugees in Switzerland. Drawing on Foucauldian governmentality theory, I investigate how such policies open up certain fields of possible labour market participation while excluding others, e.g. via integration measures such as job training programs. I take a particular interest in analyzing how labour market integration policies influence participants’ subjectivities and their strategies to find work. In my empirical case, I work with people who were granted asylum or temporary admission in the Canton of Zurich. The empirical data is gathered through biographical and semi-structured interviews.

Since 2017 University of Zurich: Ph.D. Student in Economic Geography

06/2019 - 12/2019 York University, Toronto: Visiting Scholar at the Department of Geography/Centre for Refugee Studies

2016 Humboldt University of Berlin: M.A. Human Geography

2013 Humboldt University of Berlin: B.A. Geography, Sociology & Political Science  

Stingl, Isabella (2019): Arbeit und Migration feministisch geographisch erforschen. GeoAgenda 1, 11-12.

Stingl, Isabella / Hierse, Lin / Wieland, Simon (2018): Mediating Fieldwork Challenges in International Teams: Reflexivity, Positionality and Participatory Ethics. In: Adamseged, Muluken Elias / Bokelmann, Wolfgang (eds.) Value Chain Development for Food Security in the Context of Climate Change: Perspectives and Lessons from a North-South Capacity Building Project. Berlin: Köster, 162-175.

Stingl, Isabella / Räuchle, Charlotte / Nuissl, Henning (2017): Migrantische Ökonomien als Potential für die Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung. Arbeitsbericht 193, Geographisches Institut Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Stingl, Isabella / Wieland, Simon (2017): Die Governance von Rechten irregulärer Migrant_innen in der Stadt – Eine Analyse am Beispiel der medizinischen Versorgung in Berlin. Arbeitsbericht 192, Geographisches Institut Humboldt Universität zu Berlin