Team Elisabeth Scheibelhofer

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Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Scheibelhofer, Privatdoz. M.A.
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
T: +43-1-4277-48218
https://inmi.univie.ac.at

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Holzinger, C., & Scheibelhofer, E. (2024). Top ausgebildet - im "falschen" Job. Radio show, Radio Radieschen. https://www.radio-radieschen.at/top-ausgebildet-im-falschen-job/
Scheibelhofer, E., & Boese, M. (Eds.) (2024). How do street-level bureaucracies shape migrant access to welfare? Current Sociology Monographs.
Scheibelhofer, E. (Accepted/In press). Interpretive Grounded Theory: Limits and chances within the breadth of GT approaches.
Holzinger, C., Draxl, A.-K., & Scheibelhofer, E. (2024). Komplexe Prozesse der „Dequalifizierung“ von Migrant*innen in Wien verstehen: Herausforderungen und Lösungsstrategien. Web publication
Scheibelhofer, E. (2024). Perspectives on migrant societies and subjectivities: Notes from the field. Manuscript in preparation. In Diversity and Difference - Perspectives of Subjectivation Research
Holzinger, C., Scheibelhofer, E., & Draxl, A.-K. (Accepted/In press). Wenn grenzüberschreitende Mobilität und Sprachkenntnisse den Zugang zu sozialer Sicherheit erschweren: Fallstudien aus Österreich. In L. Borelli, S. Kurt, & N. Ratzmann (Eds.), Die Verknüpfung von Migrationskontrolle und Sozialpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., & Draxl, A.-K. (2023). Confronting Racialised Power Asymmetries in the Interview Setting: Positioning Strategies of Highly Qualified Migrants. Social Inclusion, 11(2), 80-89. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6468
Scheibelhofer, E. (2023). The Interpretive Interview. An Interview Form Centring on Research Participants' Constructions. International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM), 22(1-8). https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231168748
Scheibelhofer, E. (2022). Migrants' Experiences With Limited Access to Social Protection in a Framework of EU Post-National Policies. Social Inclusion, 10(1), 164-173. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i4.4660
Scheibelhofer, E., Carmel, E., & Amelina, A. (Eds.) (2022). Transnational Social Protection: Inclusion for Whom? Theoretical Reflections and Migrant Experiences. Social Inclusion Vol. 10 No. 1 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/viewIssue/233/PDF233
Scheibelhofer, E. (2022). Transnational Social Protection: Inclusion for Whom? Theoretical Reflections and Migrant Experiences. Social Inclusion, 10(1), 161-163. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.5501
Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., & Draxl, A.-K. (2021). Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Monolingually-Oriented Organisation. Social Inclusion, 9(1), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i1.3520
Pfadenhauer, M., & Scheibelhofer, E. (Eds.) (2020). Interpretative Sozial- und Organisationsforschung. Methodologie und Methoden, Ansätze und Anwendung in Wien. . Beltz Juventa.
Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., & Regös, E. N. (2020). Navigating the labyrinths of transnational social security: experiences and meaning-making processes of EU migrants when accessing and porting social rights. In A. Amelina, E. Carmel, A. Runfors, & E. Scheibelhofer (Eds.), Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences (Vol. 1). Routledge.
Scheibelhofer, E. (2020). Qualitative Forschung im Rahmen sozialwissenschaftlicher Drittmittelforschung – ein unüberbrückbarer Widerspruch? In M. Pfadenhauer, & E. Scheibelhofer (Eds.), Interpretative Sozial- und Organisationsforschung: Methodologie und Methoden, Ansätze und Anwendung in Wien (pp. 80-93). Beltz Juventa.
Regös, E. N., Holzinger, C., & Scheibelhofer, E. (2020). When vicinity divides: transnational social security in the cross-border region of Hungary and Austria. In A. Amelina, E. Carmel, A. Runfors, & E. Scheibelhofer (Eds.), Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences Routledge.
Scheibelhofer, E. (2019). Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work. Identities.Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26(3), 289-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1589980
Scheibelhofer, E., & Täubig, V. (2019). Beyond employability: refugees' working lives. Identities.Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26(3), 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1590027
Scheibelhofer, E. (2019). Potential of qualitative network analysis in migration studies – reflections based on an empirical analysis of young researchers’ mobility aspirations. In I. Sirkeci, T. Iosifides, C. DeTona, & A. Frisina (Eds.), Reader in Qualitative Methods in Migration Research (pp. 111-120). Transnational Press, London.
Amelina, A., Carmel, E., Runfors, A., & Scheibelhofer, E. (Eds.) (2019). Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens' Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences . Routledge.

Changing expectations and strategies in regard to deskilling and reskilling. Investigating labour market expereinces of EU migrants from CEE in Vienna

Clara Holzinger (Speaker), Alina Cristea (Speaker), Martina Kanovich (Speaker) & Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

9 Sept 2025

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

Diskriminierungserfahrungen von EU-Bürger:innen aus Osteuropa am Arbeitsmarkt in Wien

Clara Holzinger (Speaker), Anna-Katharina Draxl (Contributor) & Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Contributor)

19 Sept 2024

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

"These Tiny Differences". Subtle Forms Of Discrimination Experienced By Highly Skilled CEE Migrants in Vienna

Clara Holzinger (Speaker), Anna-Katharina Draxl (Speaker) & Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

Aug 2024

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

How highly qualified migrants from CEE-countries experience the importance of language skills on the labour market

Clara Holzinger (Speaker), Anna-Katharina Draxl (Speaker) & Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

14 Feb 2024

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

“It's not a must always but it's a big plus” - How highly qualified migrants from CEE-countries experience the importance of German language on the Austrian labour market

Clara Holzinger (Speaker), Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker) & Anna-Katharina Draxl (Speaker)

8 Sept 2023

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

Street level-bureaucracies and their impact on Migrant in/exclusion

Martina Boese (Speaker) & Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

25 Jun 2023 → 2 Jul 2023

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

Delivering and (re-)producing social inequalities in a diverse society: Insights from welfare state institutions and street-level bureaucrats‘ practices

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

26 Jan 2023

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

"there are also these different levels for this discrimination" – Grappling with identifying experiences of discrimination among highly qualified EU-migrants

Clara Holzinger (Speaker), Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker) & Anna-Katharina Draxl (Speaker)

20 Sept 2022

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

Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for a Monolingually-Oriented Organisation: A Study of Street-level Bureaucrats in a Public Employment Service

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker), Clara Holzinger (Speaker) & Anna-Katharina Draxl (Speaker)

1 Sept 2021

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

„Sprache ist immer ein Teil der Arbeit“ AMS-Berater*innen zwischen gesellschaftlicher Mehrsprachigkeit und „Amtssprache“

Anna-Katharina Draxl (Speaker), Clara Holzinger (Speaker) & Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

11 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Invited panellist for the discussion “Migration, Development and the Future of the EU”

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

5 Dec 2018

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

Migration, Development and the Future of the EU

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Invited speaker)

5 Dec 2018

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

Migrants’ Access to (transnational) Social Protection and Its Consequences for Social Inequalities

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

Jul 2018

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

Mobile subjectivities betwixt and between? Reflecting the influence of discourses and policy regulations on the social positioning of migrants within time-space relations

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

10 Apr 2018

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

Von komplexen biographischen Übergängen und sozialen Kontinuitäten – Erfahrungen von Ungleichheit und Diskriminierung im Kontext von Fluchtmigration

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

Mar 2018

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

Free movement revisited. Labyrinths of transnational social security for EU migrants

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

29 Aug 2017 → 1 Sept 2017

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

Im Labyrinth europäischer Systeme sozialer Sicherung. (Transnationale) Erfahrungen ungarischer MigrantInnen in Österreich

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker), Erika Nóra Regös (Speaker) & Clara Holzinger (Speaker)

13 Jun 2017

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

Navigating the labyrinth of social security systems. Expierences of EU migrants with portability of and access to social rights

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker) & Erika Nóra Regös (Speaker)

11 May 2017

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

Transnationale soziale Sicherheit als gelebte Realität innerhalb der Europäischen Union? Erfahrungen ungarischer MigrantInnen in Wien

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker) & Erika Nóra Regös (Speaker)

20 Apr 2017

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

Social Protection: Practices and Experiences of Mobile Europeans. The European Promise of Portability of Social Rights Revisited

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

Jul 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Invited speaker at the integration talks organised by Caritas „Arbeit, Lehre, Integration – Neue Ressourcen, neue Chancen“

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

2 Jun 2016

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

Opening the black box. Three logics of data interpretation in participant observation studies and their consequences in research

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

28 Aug 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Shifting aspirations in migratory projects. Biographic reconstructions of mobility practices in second modernity

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

21 Apr 2015 → 25 Apr 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Wenn aus Flüchtlingen Zugewanderte werden.

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Invited speaker)

13 Dec 2014

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

From transnational research to space – sensible concepts in migration research?

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

29 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Living conditions of refugees in rural zones in Austria

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

14 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Living conditions of refugees in rural zones in Austria

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

14 Nov 2013 → 15 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The consequences of a space-sensible approach to the study of migration and mobility

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

13 Jun 2013 → 15 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The consequences of a space-sensible approach to the study of migration and mobility

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Keynote speaker)

Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Reflecting spatiality in migration research: A concept for a space-sensitive methodology.

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

10 Apr 2013 → 12 Apr 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Public space and issues of social integration.

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

11 Jul 2010

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The potential of a spatially sensitive methodology for the research of ethnicity.

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

11 Jul 2010

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Raumsensible Migrationsforschung. Ein Ansatz zur Überwindung des methodologischen Nationalismus

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

29 Oct 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The potential of qualitative network analysis in migration studies – reflections based on the empirical analysis of young researchers’ mobility patterns.

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Keynote speaker)

5 Oct 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The potential of qualitative network analysis in migration studies - reflections based on the empirical analysis of young researchers' mobility patterns

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Keynote speaker)

Oct 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

A space-sensitive approach to migration: New ways to migrant participation above the national level

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

5 Sept 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Escaping methodological nationalism - How migration research can profit from the sociology of space

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

5 Sept 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Escaping methodological nationalism - How migration research can profit of the sociology of space

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

4 Sept 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

A space-sensitive approach to migration: New ways to migrant participation beneath and above the national level

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

3 Sept 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Mobility perspectives of Austrian researchers and the influence of social ties on emigration, transnationalisation and return mobility.

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Contributor)

4 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Mobility perspectives of Austrian researchers and the influence of social ties on emigration, transnationalisation and return mobility

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Speaker)

Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Winter term 2025
230139 SE M5 Researching discrimination experiences and racism - Research Seminar Sociological Specialisation
400009 SE Interpretative Methodologien sowie Verfahren der Datenerhebung und -auswertung - Methods seminar
Summer term 2025
230036 VO B7 Methods of Interpretative Social Research - Lecture
230124 UE M4 Constructivist Grounded Theory, with a focus on Coding and analysis - Selected Qualitative Methods of Data Analysis
400009 SE Interpretative methodologies - Methods seminar
Winter term 2024
230036 VO B7 Methods of Interpretative Social Research - Lecture
230118 UE M2 Scientific writing and publishing
230159 KU M7 Supporting Course: Master's Thesis

Department of Sociology

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Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.206

T: +43-1-4277-48218

elisabeth.scheibelhofer@univie.ac.at