E Scheibelhofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 37668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Scheibelhofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheibelhofer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEIBELHOFER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6182-3743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Psychotherapy in diverse migration societies
This article focuses on migration-related diversity in contemporary European migration societies by applying an interdisciplinary lens that integrates psychotherapeutic and sociological perspectives. Drawing on the conceptual groundwork of an ongoing interdisciplinary research project analysing first therapeutic encounters in an institutional outpatient setting in Vienna, as well as on recent empirical research from Germany, the article examines …
Confronting Racialised Power Asymmetries in the Interview Setting
Based on our longitudinal, in‐depth qualitative research focusing on the social construction of deskilling among highly educated migrants from Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states of the European Union, we will discuss in this article the positioning of the interview partners within the interview situation as interrelated to societal racialised power asymmetries. In this contribution, we exemplify that critical migration research can …
The Interpretive Interview. An Interview Form Centring on Research Participants' Constructions
One might be tempted to ask: Is discussing qualitative interviewing with yet another name tag on it once again old wine in a new bottle? In this contribution, I argue that describing our interviewing and data analysis still needs some reflection: It is a fine cuvée (ending the vinophile metaphor here) that you might want to get a taste of herewith: Discussing qualitative interviewing deepens the understanding of the kind of interviewing Kathy Cha…
Transnational Social Protection
With migration being a reality within and between nation‐states worldwide, transnational social protection has become a concern on various levels. This thematic issue focuses on nation‐state conceptions and policies, migrants’ experiences with regards to accessing social protection, as well as the social inequalities resulting from the nexus of transnational social protection and migration
Migrants’ Experiences With Limited Access to Social Protection in a Framework of EU Post‐National Policies
It has been argued that nation‐states confront migrant protection with a highly diverse array of measures ranging from excluding strategies (often labelled as “welfare chauvinism”) to more inclusionary, post‐national approaches. While exclusionary strategies are often guided by nativist principles such as citizenship, post‐national approaches of social protection are usually based on residence. Building on an international comparative project wit…
Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Monolingually-Oriented Organisation
Migration-induced diversity has led to the global emergence of multilingual life worlds in which language regimes are particularly intertwined with labour markets. Thus, state institutions such as national unemployment services must fulfil a special role in society. In a qualitative research project (2019–2021), we interviewed employees at the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS) at multiple organisational levels. The results demonstrate dive…
Beyond employability
The so-called “refugee crisis“ put forced migration to the core of Europe in a way not seen for years. Since then, a plethora of unsolved global issues which have effects on more privileged nation-states in the global North has once again came to the fore. This is especially true for the EU member states who may hardly be conceived as unitary in confronting the challenges forced migration implies for nation-states. The so-called ”receiving countr…
Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work
Presently, European and other countries are facing public (and scholarly) discussions surrounding the possibilities of successfully integrating refugees into their respective national labour markets. Such debates often disregard the complex circumstances under which refugees are received in a given nation-state. For this conceptually oriented article, we draw on the example of Austria as a receiving state, as it shares many characteristics with o…
Opening the Black Box-Three Approaches to Interpretation in Participant Observation Studies
Participant observation (PO) is one of the most important methods in qualitative data collection. Nevertheless, published scholarly work on how to analyze data gained from PO is limited. This article reviews the currently most commonly used forms of analysis involving PO data. It is suggested that we can differentiate three main ways in which PO analysis is done in practice. These three
Damn It, I Am a Miserable Eastern European in the Eyes of the Administrator’
The European Union has given itself unique worldwide regulations so that EU citizens can port their social rights transnationally in case of migration. Yet this political and legal statement becomes flawed once a sociological perspective is adopted to look into the actual experiences of migrants. TRANSWEL (2015–2018), an ongoing international research project—applying a mixed-method approach to compare four country-pairs (Bulgaria-Germany, Estoni…
Insider research on migration and mobility
This edited volume is timely given the ongoing discussions in migration research on the topic of researchers' positionality. The contributions cover a wide array of concerns that may come up during
Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad
This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better unders…
Potential of qualitative network analysis in migration studies- Reflections based on an empirical analysis of young researchers’ mobility aspirations
Based on the example of an empirical research study, the paper examines the strengths and limitations of a qualitative network approach to migration and mobility. The method of graphic drawings produced by the respondents within an interview setting was applied. With this method, we argue to be able to analyse migrants’ specific social embeddedness and its influence on future mobility aspirations. Likewise, connections between the migratory biogr…
Shifting Boundaries of Belonging and New Migration Dynamics in Europe and China
In the debate on methodological nationalism, scholars repeatedly point to the importance of the nation state. This typical ‘et-ceteris-censibus’ statement is elucidated in this volume on boundaries
Understanding European Emigration in the Context of Modernization Processes
Based on the results of a qualitative study, this article deals with the biographies of Austrians who emigrated to the US after 1965. While, in terms of quantity, the most significant waves of immigration into Western Europe have been studied extensively during the past few years, external migration has been given comparatively little consideration. A closer look at the sociological contributions that deal with this phenomenon also shows that the…
Combining Narration-Based Interviews with Topical Interviews
While qualitative interviewing methods based on story telling are powerful in eliciting narrations that are structured according to interviewees' relevance systems, topical interviewing can build upon existing knowledge resulting from prior (interpretational) work. The problem-centred interview (PCI) is an attempt to integrate both styles of qualitative interviewing and is presently in wide use in the German-language social scientific community. …
Combining Narration-Based Interviews with Topical Interviews
While qualitative interviewing methods based on story telling are powerful in eliciting narrations that are structured according to interviewees' relevance systems, topical interviewing can build upon existing knowledge resulting from prior (interpretational) work. The problem-centred interview (PCI) is an attempt to integrate both styles of qualitative interviewing and is presently in wide use in the German-language social scientific community. …
Damn It, I Am a Miserable Eastern European in the Eyes of the Administrator’
The European Union has given itself unique worldwide regulations so that EU citizens can port their social rights transnationally in case of migration. Yet this political and legal statement becomes flawed once a sociological perspective is adopted to look into the actual experiences of migrants. TRANSWEL (2015–2018), an ongoing international research project—applying a mixed-method approach to compare four country-pairs (Bulgaria-Germany, Estoni…
Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Monolingually-Oriented Organisation
Migration-induced diversity has led to the global emergence of multilingual life worlds in which language regimes are particularly intertwined with labour markets. Thus, state institutions such as national unemployment services must fulfil a special role in society. In a qualitative research project (2019–2021), we interviewed employees at the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS) at multiple organisational levels. The results demonstrate dive…
The Interpretive Interview. An Interview Form Centring on Research Participants' Constructions
One might be tempted to ask: Is discussing qualitative interviewing with yet another name tag on it once again old wine in a new bottle? In this contribution, I argue that describing our interviewing and data analysis still needs some reflection: It is a fine cuvée (ending the vinophile metaphor here) that you might want to get a taste of herewith: Discussing qualitative interviewing deepens the understanding of the kind of interviewing Kathy Cha…
Understanding European Emigration in the Context of Modernization Processes
Based on the results of a qualitative study, this article deals with the biographies of Austrians who emigrated to the US after 1965. While, in terms of quantity, the most significant waves of immigration into Western Europe have been studied extensively during the past few years, external migration has been given comparatively little consideration. A closer look at the sociological contributions that deal with this phenomenon also shows that the…
Confronting Racialised Power Asymmetries in the Interview Setting
Based on our longitudinal, in‐depth qualitative research focusing on the social construction of deskilling among highly educated migrants from Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states of the European Union, we will discuss in this article the positioning of the interview partners within the interview situation as interrelated to societal racialised power asymmetries. In this contribution, we exemplify that critical migration research can …
Migrants’ Experiences With Limited Access to Social Protection in a Framework of EU Post‐National Policies
It has been argued that nation‐states confront migrant protection with a highly diverse array of measures ranging from excluding strategies (often labelled as “welfare chauvinism”) to more inclusionary, post‐national approaches. While exclusionary strategies are often guided by nativist principles such as citizenship, post‐national approaches of social protection are usually based on residence. Building on an international comparative project wit…
Combining Narration-Based Interviews with Topical Interviews
While qualitative interviewing methods based on story telling are powerful in eliciting narrations that are structured according to interviewees' relevance systems, topical interviewing can build upon existing knowledge resulting from prior (interpretational) work. The problem-centred interview (PCI) is an attempt to integrate both styles of qualitative interviewing and is presently in wide use in the German-language social scientific community. …
Understanding European Emigration in the Context of Modernization Processes
Based on the results of a qualitative study, this article deals with the biographies of Austrians who emigrated to the US after 1965. While, in terms of quantity, the most significant waves of immigration into Western Europe have been studied extensively during the past few years, external migration has been given comparatively little consideration. A closer look at the sociological contributions that deal with this phenomenon also shows that the…
Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad
This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better unders…
Potential of qualitative network analysis in migration studies- Reflections based on an empirical analysis of young researchers’ mobility aspirations
Based on the example of an empirical research study, the paper examines the strengths and limitations of a qualitative network approach to migration and mobility. The method of graphic drawings produced by the respondents within an interview setting was applied. With this method, we argue to be able to analyse migrants’ specific social embeddedness and its influence on future mobility aspirations. Likewise, connections between the migratory biogr…
Shifting Boundaries of Belonging and New Migration Dynamics in Europe and China
In the debate on methodological nationalism, scholars repeatedly point to the importance of the nation state. This typical ‘et-ceteris-censibus’ statement is elucidated in this volume on boundaries
Insider research on migration and mobility
This edited volume is timely given the ongoing discussions in migration research on the topic of researchers' positionality. The contributions cover a wide array of concerns that may come up during
Opening the Black Box-Three Approaches to Interpretation in Participant Observation Studies
Participant observation (PO) is one of the most important methods in qualitative data collection. Nevertheless, published scholarly work on how to analyze data gained from PO is limited. This article reviews the currently most commonly used forms of analysis involving PO data. It is suggested that we can differentiate three main ways in which PO analysis is done in practice. These three
Damn It, I Am a Miserable Eastern European in the Eyes of the Administrator’
The European Union has given itself unique worldwide regulations so that EU citizens can port their social rights transnationally in case of migration. Yet this political and legal statement becomes flawed once a sociological perspective is adopted to look into the actual experiences of migrants. TRANSWEL (2015–2018), an ongoing international research project—applying a mixed-method approach to compare four country-pairs (Bulgaria-Germany, Estoni…
Beyond employability
The so-called “refugee crisis“ put forced migration to the core of Europe in a way not seen for years. Since then, a plethora of unsolved global issues which have effects on more privileged nation-states in the global North has once again came to the fore. This is especially true for the EU member states who may hardly be conceived as unitary in confronting the challenges forced migration implies for nation-states. The so-called ”receiving countr…
Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work
Presently, European and other countries are facing public (and scholarly) discussions surrounding the possibilities of successfully integrating refugees into their respective national labour markets. Such debates often disregard the complex circumstances under which refugees are received in a given nation-state. For this conceptually oriented article, we draw on the example of Austria as a receiving state, as it shares many characteristics with o…
Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Monolingually-Oriented Organisation
Migration-induced diversity has led to the global emergence of multilingual life worlds in which language regimes are particularly intertwined with labour markets. Thus, state institutions such as national unemployment services must fulfil a special role in society. In a qualitative research project (2019–2021), we interviewed employees at the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS) at multiple organisational levels. The results demonstrate dive…
Transnational Social Protection
With migration being a reality within and between nation‐states worldwide, transnational social protection has become a concern on various levels. This thematic issue focuses on nation‐state conceptions and policies, migrants’ experiences with regards to accessing social protection, as well as the social inequalities resulting from the nexus of transnational social protection and migration
Migrants’ Experiences With Limited Access to Social Protection in a Framework of EU Post‐National Policies
It has been argued that nation‐states confront migrant protection with a highly diverse array of measures ranging from excluding strategies (often labelled as “welfare chauvinism”) to more inclusionary, post‐national approaches. While exclusionary strategies are often guided by nativist principles such as citizenship, post‐national approaches of social protection are usually based on residence. Building on an international comparative project wit…
Confronting Racialised Power Asymmetries in the Interview Setting
Based on our longitudinal, in‐depth qualitative research focusing on the social construction of deskilling among highly educated migrants from Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states of the European Union, we will discuss in this article the positioning of the interview partners within the interview situation as interrelated to societal racialised power asymmetries. In this contribution, we exemplify that critical migration research can …
The Interpretive Interview. An Interview Form Centring on Research Participants' Constructions
One might be tempted to ask: Is discussing qualitative interviewing with yet another name tag on it once again old wine in a new bottle? In this contribution, I argue that describing our interviewing and data analysis still needs some reflection: It is a fine cuvée (ending the vinophile metaphor here) that you might want to get a taste of herewith: Discussing qualitative interviewing deepens the understanding of the kind of interviewing Kathy Cha…
Psychotherapy in diverse migration societies
This article focuses on migration-related diversity in contemporary European migration societies by applying an interdisciplinary lens that integrates psychotherapeutic and sociological perspectives. Drawing on the conceptual groundwork of an ongoing interdisciplinary research project analysing first therapeutic encounters in an institutional outpatient setting in Vienna, as well as on recent empirical research from Germany, the article examines …
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)