CV
Rieke Schröder (she/her) researches and teaches on queer and feminist perspectives on everyday politics of gender and sexuality, particularly in the context of displacement, migration and anti-gender movements. Since May 2025, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the team of the Chair of Political Science with a focus on the constitution and politics of gender relations at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Münster, headed by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Krause. She is also the coordinator of the Centre for International Gender Studies at the University of Münster.
Previously, she was at the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University in Denmark, where she received her PhD in April 2025. In her dissertation 'Beyond Queer Refuge. Experiences of Support from Berlin and Copenhagen', she examined how queer refugees, volunteers and employees of refugee organisations navigate, negotiate and reproduce the normative expectations of the refugee regime in Berlin and Copenhagen. The dissertation was supported by a doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
In November 2024, Rieke Schröder was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. From April to July 2023, she was at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin.
Rieke Schröder holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and a Master of Science in Social Relations, Development Studies and International Relations, specialising in Global Refugee Studies, from Aalborg University, Denmark. In 2018, she completed a semester abroad at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. During her studies, she received scholarships from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service.
As a member of the editorial board of the Danish journal Kvinder, Køn & Forskning (Women, Gender & Research), she edited a special issue on “Decolonisation” in 2025 and is currently working on a special issue on “Lesbians”. Together with colleagues, she organised the 3rd Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium in Lund in October 2025 and the 4th Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium, which will take place in Madrid in October 2026. She is a member of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies and the Women’s and Gender Research Network NRW.
Focus areas
Rieke Schröder's research and teaching focus on:
- Intersectionality as a political science perspective
- Queer theories, in particular queer temporalities and critiques of normativity
- Feminist and intersectional perspectives on time and space
- Politics of sexuality and emotions
- Gender relations in the context of migration and flight
- Post- and decolonial perspectives on the international refugee regime and international relations
- Social work with refugees
- Anti-gender movements
- Qualitative methods and community-based research
Regional focus on Germany, Denmark and European and global developments
Teaching
Teaching in the summer semester 2026:
Bachelor's seminar: Inequality, Power, Diversity: Intersectionality as a Political Science Perspective (in German)
Master's seminar: Gender Under Attack: The Global Politics of Anti-Gender Movements
Teaching in the winter semester 2025/26:
Reading course, Bachelor's: Gender and Queer Studies as Power-Critical Perspectives on Society
Master's seminar: Moving Through Space and Time: Gendered Politics of Asylum and Displacement
Online lecture series: Global Politics, Gender, and (In-)Equality
Teaching in the summer semester 2025:
Reading course, Bachelor's: Current debates in queer studies (in German)
Master's seminar: Out of place, out of time? Approaching the gendered politics of asylum and displacement through spatial and temporal lenses
Publications
Dissertation
Schröder, Rieke (2025). Beyond queer refuge. Experiences of support from Berlin and Copenhagen [Dissertationsschrift, Aalborg University]. Aalborg University Open Publishing. https://doi.org/10.54337/aau779524675
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Schröder, Rieke (2026). From borders to bodies: ‘Circlusion’ and desires beyond credibility in queer asylum, Journal of Homosexuality. online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2618043
Schröder, Rieke (2026). Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the “Berlin Model” of queer refugee support. Gender, Place and Culture, 33(2), 237-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2555951
Schröder, R. (2023). Shifting paradigms, not identities. LGBTIQ+ refugees queering temporalities in Denmark. Journal of Refugee Studies (Preprint) https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead075
Schröder, R. (2023). Scandinavian Design. The continuous closet and queer refugees in Denmark. Sexualities 28(1-2), 435-449. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231199405
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
Graugaard, Naja. D.; Schröder, Rieke; Isfeldt, Annika; Cossette-Laneville, Èva; Stage, Josefine Lee; Suárez-Krabbe, Julia; Loftsdóttir, Kristín; Jensen, Lars & Nolsøe, Turið (Hrsg.) (2025). Decolonisation, Themenheft in Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, Jahrgang 38, Ausgabe 1. https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v38i1.164551
Schröder, R., Soriano Oliva, A. & Jensen, S. B. (Hrsg.) (2022): Situating Displacement. Explorations of Global (Im)Mobility. Peter Lang.
Fernandez, M., Jensen, K., Schröder, R. & Zormpa, A. (Hrsg.) (2021). Intersectionality. [Special Issue] The Interdisciplinary Journal of International Studies, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ijis.v11i1.6750
Schröder, R. & Zormpa, A. (Hrsg.) (2020). Global Perspectives. [Special Issue] The Interdisciplinary Journal of International Studies, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ijis.v10i1.6358
Chapter in Edited Volumes
Schröder, R. (2022). In and out and in and out of the Closet: Queer Refugees and Epistemic Furniture. In Schröder, R., Soriano Oliva, A. & Jensen, S. B. (Hrsg.), Situating Displacement. Explorations of Global (Im)Mobility. Peter Lang, 17-30.
Schröder, Rieke (2022). Queere Geflüchtete in Dänemark. Durschreiten Heterosexueller Grenzgebiete. In Manuel Bolz, Kim C. Winterhalter, Maren Sacherer, Konstantin Mack, Laura Völz, Kyra Hardt, Karoline Kaiser & Stefanie Mallon (Hrsg.), Anthropology of Sex, Gender and Bodies. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Alltägliches. Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie (HJK), Band 15. 225-270.
Other Publications
Graugaard, Naja D.; Schröder, Rieke; Stage, Josefine Lee; Loftsdóttir, Kristín; Jensen, Lars (2025). Introduction: Decolonisation, Gender Studies, and the Nordics. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 38(1), 12-28. https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v38i1.164544
Schröder, Rieke (2025). Navigating the Homonational Boundaries of Queerness is Sweden. [Besprechung des Buches Boundaries of Queerness. Homonationalism and Racial Politics in Sweden, Katharina Kehl]. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 38(1), 278-281. https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v38i1.159538
Schröder, R. (2024, 24. September) Bad Blood. Exploring the Ambiguous Role of Menstruation in Nazi Concentration Camps. [Video vom Konferenzvortrag]. 15. Dialogforum Mauthausen, ‘Women in the Holocaust‘. https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/de/Aktuell/Women-in-the-Holocaust-Vortraege-des-Dialogforum-2024-online-zum-Nachsehen
Queer(y)ing Asylum (2024, 14. März). ‘S1E6: The Case of Denmark and Germany with Rieke Schröder’. Audio-Podcast Folge. https://open.spotify.com/episode/ 0FTSdCLGFeDcO7mnusavcw?si=pCvE3rj3Q22o55IOhrcbcw&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A4WgkbHAok2uk7ZVIZbDeFk.
Lesben- und Schwulenverband (LSVD) (2024, 5. Januar). Selbst.verständlich Vielfalt. SharePics auf Instagram zu Regenbogenkompetenz in der Arbeit mit queeren Geflüchteten. https://www.instagram.com/p/C1tjKIitl06/?img_index=1.
Copenhagen PrideCast (2023, 18. Oktober). ‘Episode 12. LGBT Asylum. Queer Asylum – uncertain life in DK’. Audio-Podcast Folge. https://www.listennotes.com/da/podcasts/copenhagen-pridecast/episode-12-lgbt-asylum-queer-_IgeNQF0lnf/.
Lesben- und Schwulenverband (LSVD) (2023, 17. Oktober). Selbst.verständlich Vielfalt. SharePics auf Instagram zu Bedarfen von trans*, inter und nichtbinären Geflüchteten. https://www.instagram.com/p/CyfldLHtqdP/?img_index=1.
Schröder, R. (2023, 7. September). Forschung mit oder über LSBTIQ+ Geflüchtete? Reflexionen eigener Positionalitäten. Genderblog. https://genderblog.hu-berlin.de/forschung-mit-oder-ueber-lsbtiq-gefluechtete-reflexionen-eigener-positionalitaeten/.
Schröder, R. & Lunau, M. (2023, Februar). Queer Migrations: Imagining Intersectional Positions and Potentials, HeartCore – The official Copenhagen Pride Magazine, (11), 40-44. https://www.copenhagenpride.dk/en/queer-migrations/.
Ulfstjerne, M. & Schröder, R. (2022, Mai). A window of green opportunity. Report on German incentives to upscale regional collaboration on green growth and sustainable infrastructure development in Northern Europe. STRING. https://stringmegaregion.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/A-Window-of-Green-Opportunity.pdf.
Conferences and Talks
Rieke Schröder has presented her research at numerous international conferences.
These include the European Conference on Politics and Gender (Newcastle, England, 2026), the IMISCOE Conference (Warsaw, Poland, 2023; Lisbon, Portugal, 2024; Paris, France, 2025), the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (Cadiz, Spain, 2022; Brighton, England 2024), the Danish Gender Studies Conference (2022, 2024, 2026) and the Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium (Nottingham, England 2023; Lund, Sweden, 2025).
In addition to these recurring conferences, Rieke Schröder has also presented her work at the following conferences:
- LGBTQ+ refugees in the welfare state: Research, policy and practitioners in dialogue (Uppsala University, Sweden, 2026)
- Love, sexuality and intimacy in exile – historical and current perspectives (Austrian Society for Exile Research, Austria, 2025)
- What is love? Baby don’t hurt me (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2025)
- 15. Dialogforum Mauthausen ‘Women in the Holocaust‘ (Mauthausen Gedenkstätte, Austria, 2024)
- Queerness and Gender Diversity in/to Migration: Norms, Discourses, Control Mechanisms (The French Institute for Anatolian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey, 2024)
- Gender Studies Now (University of Stavanger, Norway, 2023)
- Not This Time. Temporalities of Ending, Editing and Enduring (University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023)
- Sexuality and Migration: Contemporary Themes and Ways Forward (Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2022)
- European Feminist Research Conference (Milan, Italy, 2022)
She has also made her research accessible to a wider audience through public lectures. This includes a lecture at Amnesty International Münster (Jan. 2026) and the organisation of a screening of ‘Dreamers’ at the Kurbelküste Münster, followed by a panel discussion (Feb. 2026), participation in a panel discussion on resistance to queer rights in the EU as part of the TalkTown Festival in Copenhagen (Nov. 2024), and a panel discussion on the situation of queer refugees as part of Copenhagen Pride (Aug. 2023).