René Kreichauf

René Kreichauf is Assistant Professor in Urban Studies and Planning and lecturer in the Erasmus Mundus MSc 4CITIES and the MSc Urban Studies master’s degree programmes at Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He received a Doctor of Sciences in Geography (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (Freie Universtität Berlin). He has been holding appointments as visiting researcher, professor, and guest lecturer at the Graduate Center of the City University New York, Rutgers University, The New School, and New York University. His research and teaching topics include displacement, urban migration governance, migrant activism and protest, state violence, and racial capitalism. His article “From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: the Campization of Asylum Accommodation in European Cities” (Comparative Migration Studies) received the Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award. He co-edited the book Displacement, Asylum and the City. Understanding Migration Processes through Urban Studies Approaches (Routledge, 2023).

Research Expertise: Asylum, Urban Migration, Racial Capitalism, Violence, Migrant Housing, Displacement, Camps, Urban Governance, Solidarity

Research Methodology: Qualitative Research, Comparative Research, Case Study Research, Ethnography