Maureen A. Eger

In recent years, two of the most politically polarizing issues have been international migration and climate change. Separately, these subjects are politically contentious, but the ways in which they are interrelated prompt existential questions related to sustainability, welfare, and justice. During her time at CASBS, Maureen Eger will study the intersection of climate change and migration politics across different political, economic, demographic, and environmental contexts. Her research will take a global view, as both climate change and migration are global phenomena. Widening the scope of inquiry will enhance knowledge about cases not often included in studies of immigration or climate politics, thereby also providing an opportunity to reconsider the scope conditions of existing theories, often taken for granted as universal.

Eger is a comparative political sociologist with specializations in international migration, (neo-) nationalism, and the welfare state. She is an associate professor in the department of sociology at Umeå University in Sweden. She has been a Fulbright Scholar (Stockholm University, Sweden) as well as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) at the University of California Berkeley and at the Research Institute at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (RICSRE) at Stanford University. Eger holds degrees from the University of Washington (PhD, MA) and Stanford University (MA, BA).  

You can read more about her work at: https://www.maureeneger.com/