Prof. Dr. Nina Perkowski

• Since January 2025: Co-Speaker of the Project Group „Futures, Utopias und Dystopias“ of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
• Since November 2023: Young Academy Fellow at the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
• Since August 2021: Assistant Professor in Sociology, Violence and Security
• 2019-2021: Researcher at the IFSH, Hamburg
• 2017-2019: Lecturer at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel, University of Hamburg and local coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Programme Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC)
• 2016-2017: Research Coordinator of the Mediterranean Migration Research Programme by the Economic and Social Research Council, University of Warwick
• 2015-2017: Researcher in the ESRC Project „Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys” (PI: Vicki Squire), University of Warwick
• 2012-2017: Doctorate in Politics, University of Edinburgh
• 2011-2012: Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin and borderline-europe, Sicily
• 2010-2011: MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, University of Oxford
• 2009: Peace Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley
• 2007-2010: BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Maastricht, Maastricht University

Monographs:

 N. Perkowski (2021) “Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Security: The Case of Frontex”, Routledge Interventions Buchserie. 

V. Squire, N. Perkowski, D. Stevens and N. Vaughan-Williams (2021) “Reclaiming Migration: Testimonies Beyond Crisis”, Manchester University Press.

Journal Articles:

N. Perkowski (2025) “‘A security built in the dark’: Operation Strade Sicure and the productivity of ignorance.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19. 

N. Perkowski and Epik, A. (2025) “Alltägliche (Un-)Sicherheit in Hamburg: Erkenntnisse einer partizipativen Studie.” In: Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft (Hg.). Wissen schafft Demokratie. Schwerpunkt Sicherheit – Schlüsselbegriff einer offenen Gesellschaft, Vol 16. Jena, 142-153. 

N. Perkowski, M. Stierl und A. Burridge (2023) “The evolution of Frontex through crisis: EU border governance since 2004”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Volume 41, Issue 1, 110-129.

 N. Perkowski (2019) “’There are Voices in Every Direction’: Organisational Decoupling in Frontex”, Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 57, Issue 5, 1182-1199. Impact factor: 2.746

N. Perkowski und V. Squire (2019) “The Anti-Policy of European Anti-Smuggling as a Site of Contestation in the Mediterranean Migration ‘Crisis’”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 45, Issue 12, 2167-2184. Impact factor: 2.297

N. Perkowski (2018) “Frontex and the Convergence of Humanitarianism, Human Rights, And Security”, Security Dialogue, Volume 49, Issue 6, 457-475, 2018. Impact factor: 2.295

N. Perkowski (2016) “Deaths, Interventions, Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the Mediterranean ‘Migration Crisis’”, Mediterranean Politics, Volume 21, Issue 2, 331-335. Impact factor: 1.732

N. Perkowski (2012) “The Arrival and Summary Deportation of Irregular Migrants in Sicily”, Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, Volume 2, Number 2, 74-77.

N. Perkowski (2010) “Stemming the Flood? Exploring Neo-Realism and Refugee Politics in the EU”, Maastricht Journal of Liberal Arts, Volume 2, 57-70.

Reports and other Publications:

N. Perkowski (2024). “Freiheit und Utopie.” Essay in der Essayreihe “Freiheit”, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg.

N. Perkowski, (2023). “Wahrheiten über Migration.” In: M. Latif (ed.), Wert der Wahrheit: Wissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Herder Verlag.

N. Perkowski, Epik, A., Louis, T. und Reyes Pollak, L. (2023). “Räume der Sicherheit in unsicheren Zeiten: Eine sichere Stadt für alle. Dokumentation und Ergebnisse.”

N. Perkowski, M. Stierl und A. Burridge (2023) “Krisennarrative in der europäischen Migrationspolitik”, Soziopolis.

V. Squire, A. Dimitriadi, N. Perkowski, M.Pisani, D. Stevens, N. Vaughan-Williams (2017) “Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences”, Final Project Report.

V. Squire und N. Perkowski (2016) “Migration evidence shows how badly the EU needs to rethink its strategy”, The Conversation, 7 March 2016.

N. Perkowski (2015) “More Frontex is not the answer to the refugee crisis”, opendemocracy, 2 October 2015.

N. Perkowski (2015) “Legal entry routes are the only real solution to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean”, LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog, 20 April 2015.

N. Perkowski (2014) “Strengthening EU border security won’t stop the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean”, LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog, 1 July 2014.

N. Perkowski (2013) “No accident: why have 19,142 died at Europe’s frontiers?”, opendemocracy, 7 October 2013.

N. Perkowski (2012) “A Normative Assessment of the Aims and Practices of the European Border Management Agency FRONTEX”, University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre Working Paper, Number 81.

N. Perkowski (2011) “Border control: the unanswered calls”, opendemocracy, 9 September 2011.