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Chair of Sociology for Social Work Prof. Dr. Birgit Behrensen

Publications

  • Muy, Sebastian (2026): The Conflictual Mandate Structure of Social Work in Reception Centres. A Proposal for Expanding Mandate Analysis in Social Work with Refugees. In: Sozial Extra, Vol. 50, pp. 339–345 (2026). (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2026): Professional Practice within Conflicting Mandate Structures. Social Work with Refugees in Reception Centres in Bavaria and Berlin. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2026): The time-limited nature of the MBE’s remit. Reflections from the perspective of Social Work. In: Asylmagazin, 1–2/2026, pp. 26–33. (Link)
  • Kattein, Alexandra / Muy, Sebastian / Täubig, Vicki / Vey, Judith (2023): Social Work in collective accommodation for refugees: An ongoing crisis for the profession and professionalism. In: Commission for Social Pedagogy (eds.): Social Pedagogical Professionalisation in Crisis? Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Juventa, pp. 155–167. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2023): Social Work in Collective Accommodation for Refugees. In: van Rießen, Anne / Bleck, Christian (eds.): Fields of Action and Approaches in Social Work. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 465–472. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2021): Review of: Olivier-Mensah, Claudia et al.: Developing Return Prospects Grounded in Real Life. Needs, Vulnerabilities and Support for Refugees in Germany. In: Migration and Social Work, 3/2021, pp. 284–287. (Link)
  • Sperling, Simon / Muy, Sebastian (2021): Camps – Forecasts – Labels. On the role of the ‘prospect of remaining’ in the Bavarian accommodation system. In: Devlin, Julia / Evers, Tanja / Goebel, Simon (eds.): Practices of (Im-)Mobilisation. Camps, Collective Accommodation, Anchor Centres. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 261–279. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2020): Supporting, Demanding and Prohibiting. Contradictions in asylum and integration policy from a Social Work perspective. In: Pioch, Roswitha / Toens, Katrin (eds.): Innovation and Legitimacy in Migration Policy – Political Science, Political Practice and Social Work in Dialogue. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. pp. 271–291. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2019): The Presence of Camps – revisited. Reflections on ‘AnkER’ centres and Social Work. In: Christine Resch / Thomas Wagner (eds.): Migration as Social Practice: Struggles for Autonomy and Experiences of Repression. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 190–206. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2018): Every Family Separation is a Case of Hardship. Political and Legal Debates on the Right to Family Reunification. In: Forum Recht, 3/2018, pp. 94–96. (Link)
  • Mungan, Cana / Muy, Sebastian / Weber, Daniel (2018): Permanent family separation? The new regulations on family reunification for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection. In: Asylmagazin, 12/2018, pp. 406–415. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2018): Social Work in shared accommodation for refugees. Aspiration and reality in times of restrictive asylum policy. In: Social Work. Journal for Social and Related Fields, Vol. 67, No. 8. Berlin: DZI, pp. 302–308. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2018): On the contradictions of Social Work in collective accommodation for asylum seekers. In: Stehr, Johannes / Anhorn, Roland / Rathgeb, Kerstin (eds.): Conflict as a Relationship – Conflict as Behaviour – Conflict as Resistance. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 155–167. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2018): Assignments in Social Work in collective accommodation for refugees that contravene the mandate. In: Prasad, Nivedita (ed.): Social Work with Refugees. Anti-racist, professional, human rights-oriented. Leverkusen/Berlin: Barbara Budrich, pp. 260–273. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian / Gutekunst, Miriam (2017): The subtle suspension of a fundamental right. How the German government denies family reunification to refugees from Syria. In: Migration and Social Work, Issue 2/2017, pp. 151–159. (Link)
  • Schmitt, Anna / Muy, Sebastian (2017): Guidance note: ‘Admission from abroad’ in the context of family reunification. Application of Section 22, sentence 1 of the Residence Act (AufenthG) to family reunification for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection. Berlin: Informationsverbund Asyl und Migration e. V. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2016): Conflicts of interest in Social Work in collective accommodation run by commercial providers – findings from a case study. In: Scherr, Albert / Yüksel, Gökçen (eds.): new praxis, Special Issue 13: Flight, the Welfare State and Social Work, pp. 157–166. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2016): ‘Whose food parcels I hand out, whose song I sing?’ On the dependencies of Social Work in the context of restrictive asylum and accommodation policies. In: Widersprüche, No. 141, pp. 63–71. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2016): Aid caught between deterrence and profit. Conflicts of interest in Social Work at commercial refugee collective accommodation centres in Berlin. In: PROKLA, No. 2/2016. (Link)
  • Muy, Sebastian (2014): Obstacles on the path out of violence. Refugee policy in Latin America 30 years after the Cartagena Declaration. In: Lateinamerika Nachrichten, No. 477, March 2014, pp. 52–55. (Link)
    Muy, Sebastian (2014): Illegality, redirection and alternatives? On the transcontinental impacts of restrictive migration policies in Europe. In: Boletín Andina Migrante, No. 18, September 2014, FLACSO Ecuador Campus. (Link)