Lea Müller-Funk

Lea Müller-Funk is a postdoctoral research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies where she studies forced migration governance in the Middle East and North Africa in a comparative and long-term perspective. Her past Marie Curie research project SYRMAGINE dealt with living conditions, migration decision-making and future imaginations of Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon.

‘You feel like in prison here’: imagining a future in Lebanon through Syrian eyes

Sometimes keeping going is the only way refugees maintain hope.

By Lea Müller-Funk

/ 8 Jul 2020

‘You feel like in prison here’: imagining a future in Lebanon through Syrian eyes

The refugees who dare to aspire

Refugees dream about their future in order to give shape and meaning to their journeys, yet this often counts against them in public discourse.

By Natalie Welfens, Lea Müller-Funk, Milena Belloni and Ayşen Üstübici

/ 6 Jul 2020