Anke Patzelt

Anke is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Ottawa. Anke’s dissertation research focuses on the mobility, integration and settlement patterns of highly-skilled migrants and the “mobile elites”. Previously, Anke graduated from Malmö University with an MA in International Migration and Ethnic Relations. Her master thesis was awarded the German-Canadian Studies Master’s Thesis Prize of the University of Winnipeg in 2014. She obtained her BA in Cultural and Social Anthropology and Scandinavian Studies from the University of Münster (Germany. Anke has researched and published on German immigrants in Canada, concepts of identity construction, home and belonging, citizenship in Germany and Canada, the media discourses in Germany and Canada surrounding the so-called refugee crisis, as well as the vulnerabilities of aging migrants.