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Dr. Anita Heindlmaier, M.A.
Anita Heindlmaier
T: +43-1-4277-49231

News: Main areas of research:
(precarious) work and migration; bordering, migration and social policies; Europeanization; administration and street-level bureaucrats

Publications and projects:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anita-Heindlmaier

Academic Positions

Since 2022
University Assistant (Postdoc) | University of Vienna | Department for Sociology | Sociology of work

2019-2022
Project collaborator (Postdoc) and Lecturer | University of Salzburg | Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies/Department of Political Science and Sociology | Project "Rebalancing the Enlarged Single Market"

2015-2018
Project collaborator (Postdoc) and Senior Scientist | University of Salzburg | Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies/Department of Political Science and Sociology | Project "Transnationalization and judicialization of welfare"

Education

2015-2018
Doctoral studies (Dr. phil.) | University of Salzburg | Department of Political Science und Sociology

2010-2011
One year of studies abroad | University of Montreal

2008-2014
Magister Artium Political Science (major), French/Linguistics and International Law (minors) | Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
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Heindlmaier, A., Assmus, J., & Schmidt, S. K. (2024). Caught between restrictive migration and liberal free movement rules: the case of intra-EU posting of third-country nationals. In C. Brière, & A. Crespy (Eds.), Inequality and the European Union: New Frontiers in Political Science and Law (pp. 71-83). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003503293-8
Borrelli, L. M., Heindlmaier, A., Lundberg, A., Mantu, S., Persdotter, M., & Wernesjö, U. (2024). Banishment. Critical Social Policy, 44(4), 683-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241273693
Borrelli, L. M., Heindlmaier, A., Mantu, S., & Pfirter, L. (2024). Suspicion and Surveillance. Critical Social Policy, 44(4), 667-682. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241273585
Achermann, C., Heindlmaier, A., Manu, S., & Pfirter, L. (2024). Welfare Governance. Critical Social Policy, 44(4), 605-620. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241273587
Blauberger, M., & Heindlmaier, A. (2024). Enforcement, Information or Socialization? The Role of the European Labour Authority in Protecting Mobile Workers in the EU. Journal of Common Market Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13692
Assmus, J., Heindlmaier, A., & Schmidt, S. K. (2024). Between the cracks: third-country posted workers. Web publication https://www.socialeurope.eu/between-the-cracks-third-country-posted-workers
Heindlmaier, A. (Accepted/In press). EU-Migrant:innen und Zugehörigkeitspolitiken in Österreich. Interne Migrationskontrolle im Zusammenspiel von Sozial- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik. In N. Ratzmann, L. M. Borrelli, & S. Kurt (Eds.), Die Verknüpfung von Migrationskontrolle und Sozialpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Heindlmaier, A. (2024). Migration und prekäre Arbeit: Rezension zu Johannes Greß' "Ausbeutung auf Bestellung". Tagebuch. Zeitschrift für Auseinandersetzung, (2024/2025 No 1), 60.
Neuhauser, J., & Heindlmaier, A. (2024). Prekäre Beschäftigung im österreichischen Sozialstaat wirkungsvoll bekämpfen – ein Maßnahmenkatalog. Web publication https://www.awblog.at/Arbeit/Prekaere-Beschaeftigung-wirkungsvoll-bekaempfen
Assmus, J., Heindlmaier, A., & Schmidt, S. K. (2024). Verbesse­rungen nur auf dem Papier? Die schwie­rige Kon­trolle der Entsen­dung von Beschäf­tigten aus Dritt­staaten. Web publication, . https://www.awblog.at/Arbeit/Schwierige-Kontrolle-der-Entsendung-aus-Drittstaaten
Blauberger, M., & Heindlmaier, A. (2023). Die Europäische Arbeitsbehörde in der Praxis. WSI Study, (32), 1-36.
Neuhauser, J., Heindlmaier, A., Tauchner, M., Winter, P., & Koós, Z. (2023). "Es ist eine Pyramide - der Druck kommt von oben nach unten." Fragmentierte Beschäftigung migrantischer Arbeitnehmer:innen in der Paketlogistik. Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft : Working Paper-Reihe der AK Wien No. 249 https://emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/image/AC17024873
Blauberger, M., & Heindlmaier, A. (2023). The European Labour Authority in Practice. WSI Study, (32e), 1-32.
Assmus, J., Heindlmaier, A., & Schmidt, S. K. (2023). Trügerisches soziales Europa. Die Entsendung von Drittstaatsangehörigen in der EU. WSI-Mitteilungen: Monatszeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.
Heindlmaier, A., & Kobler, C. (2022). Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(15), 3689-3708. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2102971
Heindlmaier, A., & Kobler, C. (2022). Warum systemrelevante Arbeit prekär ist: Arbeitsmobilität in der EU unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Live- in Care Work und internationalem Transport. JBZ-Arbeitspapier, 58, 1-88.
Ratzmann, N., & Heindlmaier, A. (2022). Welfare Mediators as Game Changers? Deconstructing Power Asymmetries Between EU Migrants and Welfare Administrators. Social Inclusion, 10(1), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.4642
Kramer, D., & Heindlmaier, A. (2021). Administering the Union citizen in need: Between welfare state bureaucracy and migration control. Journal of European Social Policy, 31(4), 380-394. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928721999612
Blauberger, M., Heindlmaier, A., Hofmarcher, P., Assmus, J., & Mitter, B. (2021). The differentiated politicization of free movement of people in the EU. A topic model analysis of press coverage in Austria, Germany, Poland and the UK. Journal of European Public Policy, 30(2), 291-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1986118
Blauberger, M., Heindlmaier, A., & Kobler, C. (2020). Free movement of workers under challenge: the indexation of family benefits. Comparative European Politics, 18(6), 925-943. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-020-00216-3
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Fragmentierte Beschäftigung migrantischer Arbeitnehmer:innen

Neuhauser, J., Heindlmaier, A., Winter, P. & Tauchner, M.

1/02/23 → 31/12/23

Project: Research funding

Arbeitsbedingungen in der Gig-Economy am Beispiel der Paketlogistik – Ungleichheit, Richtlinien, Ansätze zur Transformation

Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker) & Marvin Tauchner (Speaker)

27 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Wissenschaftsbotschafterin

Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker)

26 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Multiple precarity of migrants and forced acceptance of precarious work in parcel logistics in Austria

Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker) & Johanna Neuhauser (Contributor)

18 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Enforcement, information, or socialization? The role of the European Labour Authority in protecting mobile workers in the EU

Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker) & Michael Blauberger (Contributor)

5 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Zuckerbrot und Peitsche: Das Zusammenspiel von digitaler Arbeitssteuerung, fragmentierter Beschäftigung und Migrantisierung in der Paketlogistik

Johanna Neuhauser (Speaker) & Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker)

14 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

EU-Migration und Sozialleistungen

Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker)

28 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Workers’ power resources in the context of multiple precarity. Fragmented employment of migrants in parcel logistics in Austria

Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker)

4 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Workers’ power resources in the context of multiple precarity. Fragmented employment of migrants in parcel logistics in Austria

Johanna Neuhauser (Speaker) & Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker)

14 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

A Liberal or a Western Bias of the EU? Explaining (non-) Cooperation in Third-country Posting

Susanne K. Schmidt (Speaker), Anita Heindlmaier (Contributor) & Josephine Assmus (Contributor)

29 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Between information and enforcement: The role of the European Labour Authority in protecting mobile workers in the EU

Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker) & Michael Blauberger (Speaker)

29 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Algorithmische Arbeitssteuerung und digitale Kontrolle in der Paketlogistik

Johanna Neuhauser (Speaker) & Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker)

25 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Migration in Europa und der EU

Anita Heindlmaier (Speaker)

6 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Summer term 2025
230008 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
230051 SE B8 Sociology of Work - Work and migration Selected Research Areas
Winter term 2024
230146 UE M5 Labor, migration and interest representation: A simulation seminar - Sociological Specialisation (Exercise)
230512 SE Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Summer term 2024
230011 UE Theoretical Foundations ("Reading Classics of Sociology")
230022 SE Selected Paradigms: Migration and welfare states

Department of Sociology

Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.406

T: +43-1-4277-49231

anita.heindlmaier@univie.ac.at