She is also the Principle Investigator of the Austrian team. Her works focus on migration, mobility and qualitative methods. Research interests include more specifically migration and mobility of EU migrants within and outside of the EU, refugee studies and the experiences of migrants living in Austria. Publications and research cover questions of interpretive methods in migration and mobility contexts such as in-depth interviews, participant observation and qualitative network analysis. She was the initiator and first chair of the Research network 35, “Sociology of Migration” within the European Sociological Association. Currently, she is part of the editorial board of the journal “Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie” (Springer).