Maja Zwick is a sociologist specializing in the Western Sahara conflict, transnational mobility and protracted refugee situations in the Global South, in particular the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria, where she has conducted extensive field research.
At the Free University of Berlin, she completed her doctorate on the relationship between place and belonging in the context of flight, migration and return. Her research combines social anthropological, postcolonial and decolonial approaches with participatory qualitative methods. Her work was funded by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the DAAD.
Publications: Emplacement in the context of Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria (Freie Universität Berlin, 2024); Does a refugee remain a refugee? Sahrawi refugees "between the categories". In: Tavakoli, Judit; Manfred O. Hinz; Werner Ruf & Leonie Gaiser (eds.): Western Sahara Conflict. Between colonialism, imperialism and self-determination. (Regiospectra, 2021, pp. 303-328).