Publications

Current discourses of migration like to talk in oppositions: Of refugees versus migrants, of humans versus citizens, and of international/transnational rights versus national sovereignty. This contribution uses the case of Germany’s Temporary Humanitarian Admission Programmes (THAP), and federal state admission programmes of 2013–2015 to examine how these alleged opposites play out and collapse in a particular policy and practice case. Looking simultaneously at struggles over asylum and struggles over citizenship, it is this contribution’s aim to help bring these opposites together. I will make three points: 1) that the admission programmes both draw and blur the economic/migranthumanitarian/refugee distinction, 2) that citizenship remains a central criterion for defining access to admission, and 3) that the admission programmes perpetuate a layering of statuses and rights that fall short of addressing the questions of political participation and democratic legitimacy.

• Scheinert L. (2017) Collapsing Discourses in Refugee Protection Policies. Exploring the Case of Germany’s Temporary Humanitarian Admission Programmes. In: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 129-140.

Donors have provided foreign aid in the form of budget support in order not only to promote growth and poverty reduction but increasingly also to strengthen domestic accountability in the recipient country. Yet, despite numerous studies and evaluations, little information has been provided on how individual elements of budget support work towards domestic accountability. This article reconstructs the donors’ accountability-claim and hypothesises effects of budget support on budget transparency and domestic accountability. Evidence from empirical research in Mozambique confirms the effectiveness of budget support to improve budget transparency, and therefore supports the core accountability-claim. Moreover, the article provides insights from the demand-side, where domestic accountability institutions play an active role in the process of answerability.

• Schmitt, J. (2017), Budget Support, Budget Transparency and Domestic Accountability in Mozambique, The European Journal of Development Research, 29(1): 246-262.

• Klier, Sarah D. und S. Krapp (2017), Evaluierungsstandards für Lateinamerika und die Karibik, DEval Policy Brief 6/2016, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

• Faust, J., S. Leiderer, B. Parks und T. Masak (2016), Die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit aus Partnerperspektive, DEval Policy Brief 5/2016, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below 10% and are declining further. Despite this success, it is not clear to what extent this success has translated into similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children.

• The working paper

• Waibel, H. and L. Hohfeld. 2016. Poverty and Nutrition: A Case Study of Rural Households
  in Thailand and Viet Nam. ADBI Working Paper 623. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank
  Institute.

Although international student mobility has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in many parts of the world, the goals that student sojourners pursue when moving abroad have received little systematic attention in psychological research. Likewise, their effects on psychological outcomes such as sojourners' psychological and sociocultural adaptation abroad have not yet been examined. Hence, the purpose of the present research was twofold: First, we established the parsimonious Sojourn Goals Scale and confirmed its psychometric quality and construct validity. Second, we used a longitudinal sample of student sojourners to investigate the role of sojourn goals for sojourners' sociocultural (i.e., sojourners' social relationships) and psychological (i.e., sojourn satisfaction) adaptation abroad at 3 months into the sojourn. Regression analyses revealed substantial effects of sojourn goals on measures of sociocultural adaptation. Response surface analyses served to examine the interplay of sojourn goals and respective sojourn experiences on sojourn satisfaction. We discuss implications for both psychological and applied research and identify future research needs.

• The article in the International Journal of Psychology

• Zimmermann, J., K. Schubert, M. Bruder and B. Hagemeyer (2017) Why Go the Extra Mile? A Longitudinal Study on Sojourn Goals and their Impact on Sojourners' Adaptation, International Journal of Psychology, Vol. 52, Issue 6, 425-435.