Katharina Natter

Katharina Natter is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Leiden. She obtained her PhD (2019, Cum Laude) in political sociology at the University of Amsterdam and has previously worked at Oxford University. Since 2011 she is also involved in Asylos, an NGO providing research for lawyers representing asylum seekers. She speaks German, French, English and intermediate Dutch, Portuguese and Arabic.

In her research, she focusses on the comparative politics of migration and on connecting migration policy theory with broader social science research on states and political transformations. Hereby, she also hopes to contribute to the wider academic effort of bridging theorizations of socio-political processes in the ‘Global South’ and the ‘Global North’. Her monograph The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States: Morocco and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective was published with Cambridge University Press in 2023 and her research features in a wide range of journals such as International Migration Review, Population and Development Review, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and the Journal of North African Studies.