Migration and "Integration"
Citizenship
Affects and Emotions
Inequality
Anthropology of the state
Bureaucracy
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
PhD as part of the research project "Moralisations of Inequality" (MOI) -
"Why is our wife not living with you?" Suspicion and "Intimate Exposure" in the Swiss naturalisation process. - SAGS Conference (14./15.09.2023)
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