Stephan Scheel
Prof. Dr.

- Sociology
Research areas
- 2025
- Accepted/In press
Migrant struggles and moral economies of subversion: mimicry and opacity
Scheel, S., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Playing dirty: The shady governance and reproduction of migrant illegality
Scheel, S., 2025, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 51, 2, p. 464-482 19 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2024
- Published
Engaging with Three Predicaments of Transnational Migration Research in the Postcolonial Condition
Mustonen, L. & Scheel, S., 12.2024, In: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 14, 4, 11 p., njmr.940.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
- E-pub ahead of print
The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies
Scheel, S., 21.06.2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geopolitics. 23 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
COVID Capitalism: The Contested Logistics of Migrant Labour Supply Chains in the Double Crisis
Scheel, S., Álvarez Velasco, S. & De Genova, N., 05.2024, In: Politics. 44, 2, p. 175-187 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
- Published
Reinventing the Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies: Introduction to the Special Issue
Amelung, N., Scheel, S. & van Reekum, R., 21.02.2024, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50, 9, p. 2163-2187 25 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
- Published
Epistemic Domination by Data Extraction: Questioning the Use of Biometrics and Mobile Phone Data Analysis in Asylum Procedures
Scheel, S., 2024, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50, 9, p. 2289-2308 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2023
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions
Martin, A., Sharma, G., Peter de Souza, S., Taylor, L., van Eerd, B., McDonald, S. M., Marelli, M., Cheesman, M., Scheel, S. & Dijstelbloem, H., 20.03.2023, In: Geopolitics. 28, 3, p. 1362-1397 36 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
‘Request Denied’: Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation and Treason for Border and Migration Studies
Scheel, S., 01.02.2023, In: Geopolitics. 28, 2, p. 739-765 27 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2022
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management
Borrelli, L., Pinkerton, P., Safouane, H., Jünemann, A., Göttsche, S., Scheel, S. & Oelgemöller, C., 08.08.2022, In: Geopolitics. 27, 4, p. 1140-1167 28 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Reconfiguring Desecuritization: Contesting Expert Knowledge in the Securitization of Migration
Scheel, S., 01.08.2022, In: Geopolitics. 27, 4, p. 1042-1068 27 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
De Genova, N., Tazzioli, M., Aradau, C., Bhandar, B., Bojadzijev, M., Cisneros, J. D., Genova, N. D., Eckert, J., Fontanari, E., Golash-Boza, T., Huysmans, J., Khosravi, S., Lecadet, C., Rojas, P. M., Mazzara, F., McNevin, A., Nyers, P., Scheel, S., Sharma, N., Stierl, M., Squire, V., Baar, H. V. & Walters, W., 01.06.2022, In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 40, 4, p. 781-875 95 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Who is a Migrant? Abandoning the Nation-State Point of View in the Study of Migration
Scheel, S. & Tazzioli, M., 04.05.2022, In: Migration Politics. 1, 1, p. 1-23 23 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management
Leese, M., Noori, S. & Scheel, S., 01.01.2022, In: Geopolitics. 27, 1, p. 5-25 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
- 2021
Conclusion: The Politics of Data Practices
Scheel, S. & Ruppert, E., 02.11.2021, Data Practices: Making Up a European People. Ruppert, E. & Scheel, S. (eds.). London: Goldsmith Press, p. 269-303 35 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
Data practices: making up a European people
Ruppert, E. (Editor) & Scheel, S. (Editor), 02.11.2021, London: Goldsmith Press. 368 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
Data Practices
Scheel, S. & Ruppert, E., 02.11.2021, Data Practices: Making Up a European People. Scheel, S. & Ruppert, E. (eds.). London: Goldsmith Press, p. 29-48 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
Foreigners: Inferring and Assigning
Scheel, S. & Grommé, F., 02.11.2021, Data Practices: Making Up a European People. Ruppert, E. & Scheel, S. (eds.). 9781912685851: Goldsmith Press, p. 165-204 40 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
Introduction: The Politics of Making Up a European People
Scheel, S. & Ruppert, E., 02.11.2021, Data Practices: Making Up a European People. Scheel, S. & Ruppert, E. (eds.). London: Goldsmith Press, p. 1-28 28 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
Migrants: Omitting and Recalibrating
Scheel, S. & Ustek-Spilda, F., 02.11.2021, Data Practices: Making Up a European People. Ruppert, E. & Scheel, S. (eds.). London: Goldsmith Press, p. 125-164 40 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
The politics of (non)knowledge in the (un)making of migration: Martina Tazzioli, The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders. London: Sage, 2019; 184 pp. 9781526464040
Scheel, S., 11.2021, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 11, 3, p. 520-522 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
The Politics of (Non)Knowledge in the (Un)Making of Migration
Scheel, S., 02.02.2021, In: Journal for Migration Research. 1, 2, p. 39-71 33 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
An inquiry into the digitisation of border and migration management: performativity, contestation and heterogeneous engineering
Glouftsios, G. & Scheel, S., 02.01.2021, In: Third World Quarterly. 42, 1, p. 123-140 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2020
Biopolitical bordering: Enacting populations as intelligible objects of government
Scheel, S., 01.11.2020, In: European Journal of Social Theory. 23, 4, p. 571-590 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Doing a transversal method: developing an ethics of care in a collaborative research project
Scheel, S., Grommé, F., Ruppert, E., Ustek-Spilda, F., Cakici, B. & Takala, V., 01.07.2020, In: Global Networks. 20, 3, p. 522-543 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Doing statistics, enacting the nation: The performative powers of categories
Grommé, F. & Scheel, S., 01.07.2020, In: Nations and Nationalism. 26, 3, p. 576-593 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Peopling Europe through Data Practices: Introduction to the Special Issue
Cakici, B., Ruppert, E. & Scheel, S., 01.03.2020, In: Science Technology and Human Values. 45, 2, p. 199-211 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2019
The politics of method: Taming the new, making data official
Ruppert, E. & Scheel, S., 01.09.2019, In: International Political Sociology. 13, 3, p. 233-252 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Enacting migration through data practices
Scheel, S., Ruppert, E. & Ustek-Spilda, F., 01.08.2019, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 37, 4, p. 579-588 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
The politics of expertise and ignorance in the field of migration management
Scheel, S. & Ustek-Spilda, F., 01.08.2019, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 37, 4, p. 663-681 19 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Studying marriage migration to Europe from below: informal practices of government, border struggles and multiple entanglements
Scheel, S. & Gutekunst, M., 03.06.2019, In: Gender, Place and Culture. 26, 6, p. 847-867 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Autonomy of migration? Appropriating mobility within biometric border regimes
Scheel, S., 02.04.2019, Taylor and Francis Inc. 230 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
- 2018
Real fake? Appropriating mobility via Schengen visa in the context of biometric border controls
Scheel, S., 10.12.2018, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 44, 16, p. 2747-2763 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Recuperation through Crisis Talk: Apprehending the European Border Regime as a Parasitic Apparatus of Capture
Scheel, S., 01.04.2018, In: South Atlantic Quarterly. 117, 2, p. 267-289 23 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
- 2017
Appropriating mobility and bordering Europe through romantic love: Unearthing the intricate intertwinement of border regimes and migratory practices
Scheel, S., 01.11.2017, In: Migration Studies. 5, 3, p. 389-408 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
“The Secret is to Look Good on Paper”: Appropriating Mobility within and against a Machine of Illegalization
Scheel, S., 01.09.2017, The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering. De Genova, N. (ed.). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, p. 37-63 27 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
Das Europäische Grenzregime und die Autonomie der Migration: Migrantische Kämpfe und die Versuche ihrer Regulation und Kontrolle
Scheel, S., 2017, Migration. Bildung. Frieden.: Perspektiven für das Zusammenleben in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft . Gruber, B. & Ratković, V. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Waxmann Verlag, p. 15-30 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
- 2016
Transcending Methodological Nationalism through a Transversal Method? On the Stakes and Challenges of Collaboration
Scheel, S., Cakici, B., Grommé, F., Ruppert, E., Takala, V. & Ustek-Spilda, F., 2016, London: Goldsmiths Press, 36 p. (Arithmus Working Paper Series).Research output: Working paper › Research communication reports › Research
- 2015
New Keywords: Migration and Borders
Casas-Cortes, M., Cobarrubias, S., De Genova, N., Garelli, G., Grappi, G., Heller, C., Hess, S., Kasparek, B., Mezzadra, S., Neilson, B., Peano, I., Pezzani, L., Pickles, J., Rahola, F., Riedner, L., Scheel, S. & Tazzioli, M., 02.2015, In: Cultural Studies. 29, 1, p. 55-87 33 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Das Konzept der Autonomie der Migration überdenken? – Yes Please!
Scheel, S., 2015, In: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies . 1, 2, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2014
Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants
Scheel, S. & Squire, V., 04.08.2014, The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Loescher, G., Long, K. & Sigona, N. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 188-200 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
Review: Silja Klepp, Europa zwischen Grenzkontrolle und Flüchtlingsschutz. Eine Ethnographie der Seegrenze auf dem Mittelmeer
Scheel, S., 01.07.2014, In: Soziologische Revue. 37, 3, p. 331-333 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
Refugee Protection Meets Migration Management: UNHCR as a Global Police of Populations
Scheel, S. & Ratfisch, P., 03.06.2014, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 40, 6, p. 924-941 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2013
Studying embodied encounters: autonomy of migration beyond its romanticization
Scheel, S., 09.2013, In: Postcolonial Studies. 16, 3, p. 279-288 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Autonomy of Migration Despite Its Securitisation? Facing the Terms and Conditions of Biometric Rebordering
Scheel, S., 06.2013, In: Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 41, 3, p. 575-600 26 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2010
Migrationskontrolle durch Flüchtlingsschutz? Die Rolle des UNHCR im Kontext der Externalisierung des europäischen Migrationsregimes
Ratfisch, P. & Scheel, S., 01.07.2010, Grenzregime: Diskurse, Praktiken, Institutionen in Europa. Hess, S. & Kasparek, B. (eds.). Berlin: Assoziation A, p. 89-110 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review