Katharina Natter is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science of Leiden University.
She researches migration politics from a comparative perspective, with a particular focus on the role of political regimes in immigration policymaking, and has conducted extensive field research in Morocco and Tunisia. Katharina’s work seeks to connect migration policy theory with broader social science research on modern statehood and political change. She also hopes to contribute to the wider academic effort of bridging theorizations of socio-political processes in the ‘Global South’ and the ‘Global North’.
Katharina received her PhD in Political Sociology from the University of Amsterdam in 2019. Prior to that, she worked at the International Migration Institute (University of Oxford) and studied Comparative Politics at SciencesPo Paris. Since 2011, she is also involved in Asylos, an NGO providing Country of Origin research for lawyers representing asylum seekers.