Dr. Maurice Stierl leads the Research Group ›The Production of Knowledge on Migration‹ at IMIS and is Principal Investigator of the SFB-project C4 ›The Production of Spaces of Migrant Disappearance‹. His research focuses on migration struggles in contemporary Europe and (northern) Africa and is broadly situated in the fields of International Political Sociology, Political Geography, and Migration, Citizenship and Border Studies.