Sabrina Zajak
Biographic Data
| ID | 2355062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabrina Zajak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Zajak |
| SIGNATURE | ZAJAK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3942-9421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Diskriminierungssensible Diversitätserhebungen in Organisationen. Potenziale und Limitationen am Beispiel der öffentlichen Verwaltung
Trotz einer wachsenden Anzahl an Diversitätsstudien mangelt es an Wissen, wie diskriminierungssensible Diversitätsstudien gestaltet werden können. In diesem Artikel werden anhand des Beispiels einer Diversitätsstudie der deutschen Bundesverwaltung die Potenziale und Herausforderungen diskriminierungssensibler Diversitätsstudien diskutiert und argumentiert, dass diese mindestens drei Aspekte umfassen sollten: (1) Erhebung diskriminierungskritische…
Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe
This Open Access book offers a mixed-method approach to analysing anti-Muslim narratives in interactions between the far right and the Western European mainstream. By exploring narratives that portray Islam as inherently other, the essays in this collection interrogate the effects of such narratives on the targeted group and mainstream society. Authors explore mechanisms, such as historical othering, media agenda building, and online mobilization…
Selective solidarity? Patterns of support for refugees in Germany
The Dynamics of (De-)Normalization of the Far Right
This paper examines the normalization of far-right ideologies in Germany, with a particular focus on societal perceptions and the resulting consequences. While existing research on the normalization of the far-right has made significant contributions to our understanding of discursive shifts and changing societal norms, it still falls short of integrating the different dimensions of normalization in a coherent framework. We suggest this framework…
Radicalized Mainstream
Ferne Eliten
Das Buch analysiert die Eliten in Deutschland in nahezu allen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen wie Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Justiz, Verwaltung, etc.
Agenda setting and selective resonance – Black Lives Matter and media debates on racism in Germany
In this article, we explore how the 2020 wave of BLM mobilisations has impacted the media debates on racism in Germany. We analyse overall shifts in the salience of racism and the resonance of key frames articulated by BLM protesters. Drawing from a mix of quantitative content analysis and semi-structured interviews, we find evidence that the BLM protests have changed the public debate on racism in Germany through agenda setting and reframing. Fi…
Black Lives Matter and the new wave of anti-racist mobilizations in Europe
This Special Issue investigates the European Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that followed the protests in the USA against police brutality in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020. It takes an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective, interested in cultural and political contexts and the mechanism of how street protests and social movements influence public debates. It shows in various dimensions how the BLM mobilisation transfo…
Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation
This article analyses the 'Unteilbar coalition for an open and plural society' in Germany, as an emblematic case to advance scholarship on cross-movement coalition-building and intersectionality in social movement studies. We argue that migration-related polarisation and an accentuated threat of rising far-right mobilisation has provided a context for progressive social movement organisations in Germany to converge and to engage in a particular k…
Gewaltschutz in Geflüchtetenunterkünften
Die kollektive Unterbringung von Asylsuchenden ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der flüchtlingspolitischen Verwaltungspraxis in Deutschland. Bei aller Varianz der Art solcher Sammelunterkünfte sind damit stets auch prinzipielle Herausforderungen verbunden. Denn mit einem zentralen Raum zum Umgang mit Flucht und Ankunft werden zugleich Gefahren und Konflikte örtlich konzentriert. Parallel zur Entwicklung von Konzepten zur Bewältigung dieser Herausfor…
The politics of alliances. The making and breaking of social movement coalitions. Introduction to the special issue
This special issue will focus on processes and mechanisms of the making and unmaking of alliances among different grassroots, civil society, and social movement organizations. The formation of alliances is a key principle and basic mechanism of mobilization and the emergence of social movements. When focusing on why and how alliances emerge, social movement scholars tend to neglect that the making and breaking of coalitions is embedded in and int…
Die Zivilgesellschaft in der Krise
Dieser Beitrag präsentiert erste Einblicke in eine Organisationsbefragung zur Auswirkung der COVID-19 Pandemie auf Vereine und Initiativen in Deutschland. Die Studie unterstreicht, dass die Zivilgesellschaft mit großer Wucht getroffen wurde und weitreichende, negative Auswirkungen der Pandemie zu verzeichnen sind. Dennoch zeigen die Ergebnisse ebenfalls, dass sich Teile der Zivilgesellschaft der pandemischen Entwicklung anpassen und ihre Handlung…
Black Lives Matter in Europa – Antirassistischer Protest in Deutschland, Italien, Dänemark und Polen im Vergleich
Article Black Lives Matter in Europa – Antirassistischer Protest in Deutschland, Italien, Dänemark und Polen im Vergleich was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 34, issue 2)
Pro-migrant protest in times of Covid-19
Public policies implemented to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections created unprecedented challenges for social movements. Most striking was the de facto temporary suspension of the right to assembly. Using the case of pro-migrant mobilizations in Germany as an example, we analyse how social movements are affected by and respond to this exceptional context. Instead of a breakdown, we find evidence for a proliferation of mobilization. This is …
Flüchtlingshilfe als neues Engagementfeld
Engagiert, politisch, präfigurativ – Das Selbstexperiment als transformative Bewegungsforschung
Article Engagiert, politisch, präfigurativ – Das Selbstexperiment als transformative Bewegungsforschung was published on December 1, 2018 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 31, issue 4
International Allies, Institutional Layering and Power in the Making of Labour in Bangladesh
This contribution discusses trajectories of labour power in the making. Taking a practice theory perspective on power, and focusing on the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, the author asks how Bangladeshi trade unions are attempting to use changes in the industrial landscape after the factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013 to constitute different power sources. The article challenges assumptions in power resource theories that ass…
Networks of Labour Activism
As an Introduction to the Debate section that follows, this article develops the concept of 'Networks of Labour Activism' (NOLA) as a distinct, and important, aspect of cross-border, cross-organizational mobilization of workers, trade unions and other organizations and groups. NOLAs are seen as different from traditional labour activist networks in that they are neither solely connected to the position of labour in production processes, nor wholl…
Private Transparenzkonflikte
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Activism
This article presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today's international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on the emergence, development and effects of transnational activism, an integrated framework that analyses the dynamic interplay between activism, transnational institutions and domestic contexts is still lacking. The framework of transnational pathwa…
Transnational private regulation and the transformation of labour rights organizations in emerging markets
This article explores the emergence of transnational regimes of regulation governing labour standards and how these impact and articulate in China. Specifically, the article addresses how domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China communicate emergent regulatory norms and extend these into domestic domains, redefining how labour codes are developed and instantiated in local policy contexts and throughout the globalized value chains. …
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Pro-migrant protest in times of Covid-19
Public policies implemented to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections created unprecedented challenges for social movements. Most striking was the de facto temporary suspension of the right to assembly. Using the case of pro-migrant mobilizations in Germany as an example, we analyse how social movements are affected by and respond to this exceptional context. Instead of a breakdown, we find evidence for a proliferation of mobilization. This is …
International Allies, Institutional Layering and Power in the Making of Labour in Bangladesh
This contribution discusses trajectories of labour power in the making. Taking a practice theory perspective on power, and focusing on the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, the author asks how Bangladeshi trade unions are attempting to use changes in the industrial landscape after the factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013 to constitute different power sources. The article challenges assumptions in power resource theories that ass…
Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation
This article analyses the 'Unteilbar coalition for an open and plural society' in Germany, as an emblematic case to advance scholarship on cross-movement coalition-building and intersectionality in social movement studies. We argue that migration-related polarisation and an accentuated threat of rising far-right mobilisation has provided a context for progressive social movement organisations in Germany to converge and to engage in a particular k…
Networks of Labour Activism
As an Introduction to the Debate section that follows, this article develops the concept of 'Networks of Labour Activism' (NOLA) as a distinct, and important, aspect of cross-border, cross-organizational mobilization of workers, trade unions and other organizations and groups. NOLAs are seen as different from traditional labour activist networks in that they are neither solely connected to the position of labour in production processes, nor wholl…
The politics of alliances. The making and breaking of social movement coalitions. Introduction to the special issue
This special issue will focus on processes and mechanisms of the making and unmaking of alliances among different grassroots, civil society, and social movement organizations. The formation of alliances is a key principle and basic mechanism of mobilization and the emergence of social movements. When focusing on why and how alliances emerge, social movement scholars tend to neglect that the making and breaking of coalitions is embedded in and int…
Black Lives Matter and the new wave of anti-racist mobilizations in Europe
This Special Issue investigates the European Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that followed the protests in the USA against police brutality in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020. It takes an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective, interested in cultural and political contexts and the mechanism of how street protests and social movements influence public debates. It shows in various dimensions how the BLM mobilisation transfo…
Agenda setting and selective resonance – Black Lives Matter and media debates on racism in Germany
In this article, we explore how the 2020 wave of BLM mobilisations has impacted the media debates on racism in Germany. We analyse overall shifts in the salience of racism and the resonance of key frames articulated by BLM protesters. Drawing from a mix of quantitative content analysis and semi-structured interviews, we find evidence that the BLM protests have changed the public debate on racism in Germany through agenda setting and reframing. Fi…
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Activism
This article presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today's international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on the emergence, development and effects of transnational activism, an integrated framework that analyses the dynamic interplay between activism, transnational institutions and domestic contexts is still lacking. The framework of transnational pathwa…
Selective solidarity? Patterns of support for refugees in Germany
The Dynamics of (De-)Normalization of the Far Right
This paper examines the normalization of far-right ideologies in Germany, with a particular focus on societal perceptions and the resulting consequences. While existing research on the normalization of the far-right has made significant contributions to our understanding of discursive shifts and changing societal norms, it still falls short of integrating the different dimensions of normalization in a coherent framework. We suggest this framework…
Transnational private regulation and the transformation of labour rights organizations in emerging markets
This article explores the emergence of transnational regimes of regulation governing labour standards and how these impact and articulate in China. Specifically, the article addresses how domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China communicate emergent regulatory norms and extend these into domestic domains, redefining how labour codes are developed and instantiated in local policy contexts and throughout the globalized value chains. …
Transnational private regulation and the transformation of labour rights organizations in emerging markets
This article explores the emergence of transnational regimes of regulation governing labour standards and how these impact and articulate in China. Specifically, the article addresses how domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China communicate emergent regulatory norms and extend these into domestic domains, redefining how labour codes are developed and instantiated in local policy contexts and throughout the globalized value chains. …
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Private Transparenzkonflikte
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Activism
This article presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today's international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on the emergence, development and effects of transnational activism, an integrated framework that analyses the dynamic interplay between activism, transnational institutions and domestic contexts is still lacking. The framework of transnational pathwa…
International Allies, Institutional Layering and Power in the Making of Labour in Bangladesh
This contribution discusses trajectories of labour power in the making. Taking a practice theory perspective on power, and focusing on the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, the author asks how Bangladeshi trade unions are attempting to use changes in the industrial landscape after the factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013 to constitute different power sources. The article challenges assumptions in power resource theories that ass…
Networks of Labour Activism
As an Introduction to the Debate section that follows, this article develops the concept of 'Networks of Labour Activism' (NOLA) as a distinct, and important, aspect of cross-border, cross-organizational mobilization of workers, trade unions and other organizations and groups. NOLAs are seen as different from traditional labour activist networks in that they are neither solely connected to the position of labour in production processes, nor wholl…
Flüchtlingshilfe als neues Engagementfeld
Engagiert, politisch, präfigurativ – Das Selbstexperiment als transformative Bewegungsforschung
Article Engagiert, politisch, präfigurativ – Das Selbstexperiment als transformative Bewegungsforschung was published on December 1, 2018 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 31, issue 4
Pro-migrant protest in times of Covid-19
Public policies implemented to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections created unprecedented challenges for social movements. Most striking was the de facto temporary suspension of the right to assembly. Using the case of pro-migrant mobilizations in Germany as an example, we analyse how social movements are affected by and respond to this exceptional context. Instead of a breakdown, we find evidence for a proliferation of mobilization. This is …
Die Zivilgesellschaft in der Krise
Dieser Beitrag präsentiert erste Einblicke in eine Organisationsbefragung zur Auswirkung der COVID-19 Pandemie auf Vereine und Initiativen in Deutschland. Die Studie unterstreicht, dass die Zivilgesellschaft mit großer Wucht getroffen wurde und weitreichende, negative Auswirkungen der Pandemie zu verzeichnen sind. Dennoch zeigen die Ergebnisse ebenfalls, dass sich Teile der Zivilgesellschaft der pandemischen Entwicklung anpassen und ihre Handlung…
Black Lives Matter in Europa – Antirassistischer Protest in Deutschland, Italien, Dänemark und Polen im Vergleich
Article Black Lives Matter in Europa – Antirassistischer Protest in Deutschland, Italien, Dänemark und Polen im Vergleich was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 34, issue 2)
Gewaltschutz in Geflüchtetenunterkünften
Die kollektive Unterbringung von Asylsuchenden ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der flüchtlingspolitischen Verwaltungspraxis in Deutschland. Bei aller Varianz der Art solcher Sammelunterkünfte sind damit stets auch prinzipielle Herausforderungen verbunden. Denn mit einem zentralen Raum zum Umgang mit Flucht und Ankunft werden zugleich Gefahren und Konflikte örtlich konzentriert. Parallel zur Entwicklung von Konzepten zur Bewältigung dieser Herausfor…
The politics of alliances. The making and breaking of social movement coalitions. Introduction to the special issue
This special issue will focus on processes and mechanisms of the making and unmaking of alliances among different grassroots, civil society, and social movement organizations. The formation of alliances is a key principle and basic mechanism of mobilization and the emergence of social movements. When focusing on why and how alliances emerge, social movement scholars tend to neglect that the making and breaking of coalitions is embedded in and int…
Agenda setting and selective resonance – Black Lives Matter and media debates on racism in Germany
In this article, we explore how the 2020 wave of BLM mobilisations has impacted the media debates on racism in Germany. We analyse overall shifts in the salience of racism and the resonance of key frames articulated by BLM protesters. Drawing from a mix of quantitative content analysis and semi-structured interviews, we find evidence that the BLM protests have changed the public debate on racism in Germany through agenda setting and reframing. Fi…
Black Lives Matter and the new wave of anti-racist mobilizations in Europe
This Special Issue investigates the European Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that followed the protests in the USA against police brutality in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020. It takes an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective, interested in cultural and political contexts and the mechanism of how street protests and social movements influence public debates. It shows in various dimensions how the BLM mobilisation transfo…
Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation
This article analyses the 'Unteilbar coalition for an open and plural society' in Germany, as an emblematic case to advance scholarship on cross-movement coalition-building and intersectionality in social movement studies. We argue that migration-related polarisation and an accentuated threat of rising far-right mobilisation has provided a context for progressive social movement organisations in Germany to converge and to engage in a particular k…
Ferne Eliten
Das Buch analysiert die Eliten in Deutschland in nahezu allen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen wie Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Justiz, Verwaltung, etc.
Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe
This Open Access book offers a mixed-method approach to analysing anti-Muslim narratives in interactions between the far right and the Western European mainstream. By exploring narratives that portray Islam as inherently other, the essays in this collection interrogate the effects of such narratives on the targeted group and mainstream society. Authors explore mechanisms, such as historical othering, media agenda building, and online mobilization…
Selective solidarity? Patterns of support for refugees in Germany
The Dynamics of (De-)Normalization of the Far Right
This paper examines the normalization of far-right ideologies in Germany, with a particular focus on societal perceptions and the resulting consequences. While existing research on the normalization of the far-right has made significant contributions to our understanding of discursive shifts and changing societal norms, it still falls short of integrating the different dimensions of normalization in a coherent framework. We suggest this framework…
Radicalized Mainstream
Diskriminierungssensible Diversitätserhebungen in Organisationen. Potenziale und Limitationen am Beispiel der öffentlichen Verwaltung
Trotz einer wachsenden Anzahl an Diversitätsstudien mangelt es an Wissen, wie diskriminierungssensible Diversitätsstudien gestaltet werden können. In diesem Artikel werden anhand des Beispiels einer Diversitätsstudie der deutschen Bundesverwaltung die Potenziale und Herausforderungen diskriminierungssensibler Diversitätsstudien diskutiert und argumentiert, dass diese mindestens drei Aspekte umfassen sollten: (1) Erhebung diskriminierungskritische…
Political science (18 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Social movement (7 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)