Charlot Schneider

Foto: Charlot Schneider

Doktorandin

Anschrift

Universität Hamburg

Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügelbau West (ESA W)

20146 Hamburg

Building Wellbeing: An Ethnography of Temporary Refugee Housing in Berlin and Brandenburg

This PhD project, funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, will explore the lived experiences of refugees in temporary accommodation. Despite it being such a crucial aspect for those who have endured traumatic circumstances, the connections between displacement, homemaking and well-being are currently understudied. By focusing on the homemaking practices that refugees perform within their domestic space, I hope to uncover the various conceptions and practices of well-being that refugees bring with them and the way in which they are maintained or transformed within a new environment. Taking an ethnographic approach will enable participants to contribute their own individually shaped conceptions of well-being. This will include participant-led methodologies such as the ‘shared-walk’ and ‘auto-photography’ which will allow participants to take an active role in the data collection process.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

08/2022 Promotionsstudium, Universität Hamburg, gefördert durch die Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Arbeitstitel der Dissertation: Building Well-being: An Ethnography of Temporary Refugee Housing in Berlin and Brandenburg.

09/2020-01/2021 – Forschungspraktikantin, The Wonder Foundation, London

11/2017-03/2020 Freie Mitarbeiterin, Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg

10/2017-09/2020 MA Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg
Abschlussarbeit: Holding onto Home: How Refugees in Hamburg use Objects for Homemaking

01/2014-07/2016 ‘Student Helper’, London School of Economics and Political Science

10/2013-07/2016 BA Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science

Publikationen

Schneider, C. (2022) ‘Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement’, Journal of Material Culture. doi: 10.1177/13591835221088512.

Kulpa, J., Pessoa, L. & Schneider, C. (2021) ‘Understanding the Situation for Female Migrants’ in Empowering Migrant Women to Thrive Learning from the FATIMA project. Available at: https://wonderfoundation.org.uk/fatima-project-report/

Schneider, C. (2021) ‘Where is the data on migrant women in published research?’, Wonder Foundation Blog. Available at: https://wonderfoundation.org.uk/about-us/blog/.

Schneider, C. (2020) ‘Space to Write: A Student’s Perspective on Ethnographic Writing’, Ethnoscripts Vol 22 (2). Available at: https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/index