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Maria Lassak

Maria Lassak

Maria Lassak

Project Fellow

HSG - SHSS
Transcultural Studies
Büro 52-6036
9000 St Gallen
Publications

No publications on Alexandria yet

Fields of research

Migration and "Integration"

Citizenship

Affects and Emotions

Inequality

Anthropology of the state

Further fields of research

Bureaucracy

Education

since 01/2021 PhD in Transcultural Studies, University of St. Gallen
Working title: ""We expect them to do more than just order a passport." - Dimensions of affective citizenship in the Swiss naturalisation process."


2016-2020 Master´s programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne 

2012-2015 Bachelor´s programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt

Projects

PhD as part of the research project "Moralisations of Inequality" (MOI) - 

moralisations-of-inequality.org

Talks

"Why is our wife not living with you?" Suspicion and "Intimate Exposure" in the Swiss naturalisation process. - SAGS Conference (14./15.09.2023) 

Additional Information

publications

Lassak, Maria (2020): Unconditional Cash Transfer als staatliches Instrument der Armutslinderung in Tansania am Beispiel des Bezirks Kilombero, Südwest-Tansania. Kölner ethnologische Beiträge, 56. Edited by Michael J. Casimir. (Available at kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/30369/1/Heft56_Lassak.pdf )  

Lassak, Maria and Schmidt, Mario (2023). "Free money's ideological nature: A comparative analysis of unconditional cash transfer in Eastern Africa." Economic Anthropology 1-11. DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12293

 

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