Rafael Bohlen

PhD candidate at the Faculty for Social Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum

Fulbright Visiting PhD Fellow at City University of New York (CUNY), Baruch College, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs

M.A. Social Science at Ruhr-University Bochum, Thesis: "Que salga el régimen! - Transnationale Handlungsräume des politischen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Aktivismus von venezolanischen Migranten in Kolumbien"

Semester Abroad at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico. Stay funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD PROMOS)

B.A. Social Science at Ruhr-University Bochum, Thesis: "Begleiteffekte von Interventionen in Neuen Kriegen - Plan Colombia und die Konfliktökonomie in Chocó"

A-levels ('Abitur'), Gymnasium am Neandertal Erkrath (Germany)

Research Associate at the Chair of Sociology / Organization, Migration, Participationat Ruhr-University Bochum

Student Assistant at the Institute for the Law of Peace and Armed Conflict 

Student Assistant at the Chair of Sociology / Organization, Migration, Participation in the project "Mapping Refugees Arrivals at the MediterraneanBorders (MAREM)"

Internship at the Research Unit of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), group: International Migration

Scientific Assistant at the Institute for the Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB/IFHV)

Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Sociology (Organization, Migration, Participation, Ruhr-University Bochum

Internship at the "Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)", Eschborn, Division Governance/Conflict, Competence Center Peace and Emergency Aid

Fellow at The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research and member of the Mikrokolleg "Forced Migration" of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF)

Pries, Ludger and Bohlen, Rafael: Forced Migration – Present Challenges and Emerging Topics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Bohlen, Rafael and Pries, Ludger: Transnational Organisations. In: Collins, F.L. & Yeoh, B., Hg., Edward Elgar Handbook on Transnationalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Bohlen, Rafael: Que Salga el Régimen! Transnationale Handlungsräume zwischen 'Exit, Voice and Loyalty' - Eine Explorative Fallstudie zu (forcierter) Migration und politischem Aktivismus venezolanischer Migranten in Kolumbien. IFHV Working Papers, 10.

Pries, Ludger and Bohlen, Rafael: Transnational Migration and the Travelling of Religious Beliefs. In: Andreas Bieler, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Illona Nord & Isolde Karle, Hg., Religion and Migration. Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, pp. 21-40.

Dijkzeul, Dennis; Fauser, Margit and Bohlen, Rafael: Conclusion: What is the Relevance of Diaspora Organizations for International Relations Theory and Research?, In: Dennis Dijkzeul & Margit Fauser, Eds.., Diaspora Organizations in International Affairs. London: Routledge, pp. 176-193. 

Pries, Ludger and Bohlen, Rafael: Lateinamerika und Internationale Migration. In: Günther In: Maihold, Hartmut Sangmeister und Nikolaus Werz, Hg., Handbuch Lateinamerika. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 634-642. 

Dijkzeul, Dennis; Bohlen, Rafael and Mehrabi, Flora: Auf Krisen Vorbereiten: Summer School 'Humanitarian Action in the 21st Century'. Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre, C 2.38.

Bohlen, Rafael; Schulte, Stefanie; Bahar, Yeter: Report Malta. In: Anna Gansbergen, Ludger Pries und Juliana Witkowski, Hg., Versunken im Mittelmeer - Flüchtlingsorganisationen und das europäische Asylsystem. Bielefeld: Transcript.

Fulbright Scholarship for a 6-Month Visiting Fellowship at City University New York, USA

Grant "Begleitkurs zur Masterarbeit: Qualitative Methoden in der Krisenforschung" together with Dennis Dijkzeul, by "Forschendes Lernen", Ruhr-University Bochum

International Realization Budget, Research School, Ruhr-University Bochum

PhD-Scholarship by the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research

PhD-Scholarship by the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research

Nomination for best M.A. thesis award in Sociology by the German Sociological Association (GSA)

DAAD-PROMOS Scholarship: Field Research in Bogotá and Cúcuta, Colombia for M.A. thesis

Grant for "Summer School Humanitarian Action" together with Dennis Dijkzeul by GLS Treuhand 

DAAD-PROMOS Scholarship: Semester Abroad at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico

Tutor, Exercise Class "Grundfragen und Hauptbegriffe der Soziologie"

Reviewer for the IFHV Working Paper Series, Ruhr-University Bochum

Tutor, Lecture Class "Grundfragen und Hauptbegriffe der Soziologie"

Reviewer for the Research School, Ruhr-University Bochum