Forced Migration in Colombia and Mexico

This lecture is part of the ZILAS Winter Lecture Series 2025/26. 
She is research coordinator on the 'Stay, Return or Move On' project, analyzing the survival strategies of forced migrants in four countries: Mexico, Colombia, Turkey and Jordan (ForMOVe 2). Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the international research project 'GEN-Migra: Gender, Mobilities and Migration during and Post-Pandemic: Vulnerability, Resilience and Renewal' at Technical University Dortmund. Additionally, she has been an associated researcher and a member of the Forced Migration Research Cluster at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) at the University of Freiburg. Susanne received her doctorate in Social and Political Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has researched forced and transit migration processes, gender, violence, and the rights of refugees in Mexico, as well as transnational families in Germany. She has conducted fieldwork in various locations across Mexico, Colombia, Germany and the US. Her research interests include forced and transit migration processes, violence, refugee studies, gender, transnational families and care.