Chair of
Sociology for Social Work
Prof. Dr. Birgit Behrensen
Publications
Publications (peer-reviewed)
Vey, Judith (2025): Doing Agency. A proposal for a praxeological (re-)conceptualisation of agency (not only) in restrictive spaces, Z’Flucht 9 (2), 306–338, https://doi.org/10.5771/2509-9485-2025-2 (OA).
Vey, Judith (2016): Crisis protests in Germany, Occupy Wall Street, and Mietshäuser Syndikat: Antinomies of current Marxist- and anarchist-inspired movements and their convergence. Capital & Class 40 (1), 59–74. DOI: 10.1177/0309816815627389 (OA).
Johnson, Lisa; Tries, Tamara; Vey, Judith (2025): Vulnerability and agency in the context of refugee migration – an introduction to a complex field, Z’Flucht 9 (2), 201–222, https://doi.org/10.5771/2509-9485-2025-2.
Vey, Judith (2023): Exclaves in the Externalisation Society: Accommodation, provisions and care for refugees in Germany. Culture, Practice & Europeanisation 8 (2), 183–203. DOI: 10.5771/2566-7742-2023-2-183 (OA).
Vey, Judith (2019): Agency and Subjectivity: From Holzkamp via Bourdieu to Laclau and Mouffe (and Back?). Annual Review of Critical Psychology 16, 282–300. ISSN 1746-739X (OA)
Hagemann, Ingmar; Leinius, Johanna; Vey, Judith (2017): Poststructuralist Perspectives on Social Movements: A Case for a Necessary Shift in Perspective. Research Journal on Social Movements 30 (4), 6–20. DOI: 10.1515/9783839448793-002 (OA).
Monographs
Vey, Judith (2015): Counter-hegemonic Perspectives. An Analysis of Left-Wing Crisis Protests in Germany 2009/2010, Hamburg: VSA. ISBN 978-3-89965-626-8 (OA, awarded the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony Research Prize with distinction)
Edited volumes
Johnson, Lisa; Tries, Tamara; Vey, Judith (2025): Special Issue ‘Vulnerability and the Power of Action. Praxeological and Application-Oriented Approaches to Refugee Research’ in Z’Flucht, Z’Flucht 9 (2), https://doi.org/10.5771/2509-9485-2025-2.
Vey, Judith; Gunsch, Salome (2021): Accommodation of Refugees in Germany. Inclusion, Exclusion, Participation? Baden-Baden: Nomos. DOI: 10.5771/9783748921172 (OA).
Vey, Judith; Leinius, Johanna; Hagemann, Ingmar (2019): Handbook: Poststructuralist Perspectives on Social Movements. Approaches, Methods and Research Practice, transcript. DOI: 10.14361/9783839448793 (OA).
Contributions to anthologies
Vey, Judith: Chapter III.4.8. (2023): ‘Accommodation’. In: Birgit Glorius, Marcel Berlinghoff, Olaf Kleist, Tabea Scharrer (eds.): Handbook of Flight and Refugee Research, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 653–660. DOI: 10.5771/9783748921905.
Kattein, Alexandra, Muy, Sebastian, Täubig, Vicki and Judith Vey (2023): Refugee social work in collective accommodation: an ongoing crisis for professionalism. In: Anselm Bohmer, Zoe Clark, Mischa Engelbracht, Davina Hoblich, Bettina Hünersdorf, Kim-Patrick Sabla-Dimitrov, Vicki Täubig and Ulrike Voigtsberger (eds.): The Professionalisation of Social Pedagogy in Crisis, Weinheim and Munich: Beltz Juventa, 155–167. ISBN: 9783779970736.
Vey, Judith; Gunsch, Salome (2021): Obstacles and difficulties in participation and protest in the context of collective accommodation for refugees. The example of a protest camp set up by residents of an emergency shelter. In: ibid. (eds.): Accommodation for Refugees in Germany. Inclusion, Exclusion, Participation? Baden-Baden: Nomos, 205–228. DOI: 10.5771/9783748921172 (OA).
Vey, Judith; Gunsch, Salome (2021): Introduction. Accommodation for Refugees in Germany – State of Research, Key Areas and Unmet Needs. In: ibid. (eds.): Accommodation for Refugees in Germany. Inclusion, Exclusion, Participation? Baden-Baden: Nomos, 7–20. DOI: 10.5771/9783748921172 (OA).
Vey, Judith (2019): Accommodation of Refugees under Authoritarian Fortress Capitalism. Dynamics, Internal Logics, Contradictions. In: Carina Book, Nikolai Huke, Sebastian Klauke and Olaf Tietje (eds.): Everyday Boundary-Drawing. The Concept of the Imperial Way of Life, Externalisation and Exclusive Solidarity. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 168–185. ISBN: 9783896912732.
Vey, Judith (2018): How to Think ‘Society from Below’? Possibilities and Limits of Applying Social Movement Theories to ‘Bottom-up’ Transformation Processes. In: Matthias Grundmann (ed.): ‘Society from below!?’ Studies on the Formation of Grassroots Civil Society Initiatives. Weinheim Basel: Beltz Juventa, 42–56. ISBN: 978-3-7799-3904-7.
Vey, Judith (2018): Between Empowerment, Filling the Gaps and Neoliberal Activation of the Self. Voluntary Engagement and Standard Care in the Provision of Support for Refugees in Germany. In: Sabrina Zajak and Ines Gottschalk (eds.): Refugee Aid as a New Field of Engagement. Opportunities and Challenges of Working with Refugees. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 77–98. DOI: 10.5771/9783845286983.
Working paper
Gunsch, Salome; Sehatkar Langroudi, Aryan; Vey, Judith (2021): Last resort: protest camp. On the self-organisation of refugees outside an emergency shelter. ipb working paper 2. Open access.
Gunsch, Salome; Trogisch, Corinna; Vey, Judith (2020): A brief study of urban spaces concerning opportunities for participation by refugees, people with a migration background and people of colour* in the Berlin district of Pankow. ZTG discussion paper 44. Open access.
Vey, Judith (2018): Life at Tempohome. A qualitative study on the accommodation situation of refugees in temporary shared accommodation in Berlin. ZTG discussion paper 40. Open access.
Vey, Judith; Sauer, Madeleine (2016): Voluntary work with refugees in Brandenburg. A brief study commissioned by the Brandenburg Action Alliance. Open access.
Publications and statements (selection)
Vey, Judith (2025): Refugee Housing, Care, and Provisions as Exclaves in the Externalisation Society. Berliner Gazette, https://berlinergazette.de/refugee- housing-care-and-provisions-as-exclaves-in-an-externalization-society/.
Vey, Judith, et al. (2025): Statement in favour of an evidence- and human rights-based migration and asylum policy, initiator, signed by 326 migration and refugee researchers, 21 February 2025, https://fluchtforschung.net/fuer-eine-evidenz-und-menschenrechtsbasierte- migrations-und-asylpolitik/.
Vey, Judith (2025): Enclaves in the externalisation society: accommodation, provision and care for refugees, Mosaik podcast, 20 February 2025, https://mosaik-blog.at/exklaven-in-der- externalisierungsgesellschaft/.
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