Ulrike Krause

Dr Ulrike Krause is Professor of Political Science with a Focus on Constitution and Politics of Gender Relations at the Institute for Political Science, University of Münster. Prior to this, she was Professor of Social Work in the Migration Society at Münster University of Applied Sciences, Junior Professor for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at Osnabrück University, Junior Professor for Global Governance and Humanitarian Action at Ruhr University Bochum, and Researcher at the Center for Conflict Research at Marburg University. 

Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of gender relations and and gender-based violence in the context of displacment, humanitarian refugee protection, conflict displacement nexus, agency, and postcolonial legacies. Her regional focus is on global developments as well as those in Africa, in particular East Africa and Uganda.

Ulrike has published widely on these topics. She is a board member of the German Network Refugee Research (Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung), co-founded and co-edited the German Journal for Refugee Studies, and launched the German Refugee Research Blog (FlüchtlingsforschungsBlog).

Recent publications include:

Krause, Ulrike (2021), Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp. Violence, Gender, and Coping in Uganda (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Krause, Ulrike (2021), 'Colonial Roots of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its Effects on the Global Refugee Regime', Journal of International Relations and Development, 24 (3), 599–626.

Abuya, Edwin Odhiambo, Krause, Ulrike and Mayblin, Lucy (2021), 'The neglected colonial legacy of the 1951 refugee convention', International Migration, 59 (4), 265-267.

Krause, Ulrike and Segadlo, Nadine (2021), 'Conflict, Displacment... and Peace? A Critical Review of Research Debates', Refugee Survey Quarterly, 40 (3), 271–292.

Krause, Ulrike and Schmidt, Hannah (2020), 'Refugees as Actors? Critical Reflections on Global Refugee Policies on Self-Reliance and Resilience', Journal of Refugee Studies, 33 (1), 22–41.