Stefan Rother

Stefan Rother is Professor pro tempore for Flight, Migration and Social Mobility

at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, and Senior Researcher at the Arnold-

Bergstraesser-Institute at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

His research focus is on international migration, the democratisation of global governance, social

movements, regional integration, development and non-/post-Western theories

of international relations. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Southeast

Asia as well as participant observation at global governance fora and civil society

parallel and counter-events including the UN, ILO, ASEAN and WTO-level as well

as the European Forum on Migration and World Social Forum on Migration.

Stefan Rother has published articles in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration

Studies, Third World Quarterly, Cooperation and Conflict, Comparative Migration

Studies, International Migration, Migration Studies, Globalizations, European

Journal of East Asian Studies, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Asia Pacific

Viewpoint and several edited volumes. He has published and edited several

books, including Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and

Participation of Philippine Return Migrants (with Christl Kessler, 2016).