Retirement migration to Kenya
Project director: Cornelia Schweppe
Research associate: Karin Müller
Funding: Gutenberg Research College
Old age care in times of Covid-19
Project director: Cornelia Schweppe
Research associate: Vincent Horn
Funding: Gutenberg Research College
Highly aged people in times of Covid-19. Their views and experiences
Project director: Cornelia Schweppe
Research associate: Vincent Horn
Funding: Gutenberg Research College
The Transnationalization of Long-Term Care Regimes: The case of migrant 24/7 home care in Germany and the Netherlands (2016-2019)
Together with Prof. Dr. Anita Böcker, Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Research associates: Dr. Maria Bruquetas and Dr. Vincent Horn
Funded by: Open Research Area (ORA) for the Social Sciences (German Research Foundation (DFG) and The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Research Training Group “Transnational Social Support”
Funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG) (2008-2017)
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Old age mobility to Thailand. From sex tourism to a transnational space for aging
Director: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schweppe
Research associates: Dr. Désirée Bender and Sonja Großmann, M.A.
Funded by: Gutenberg Research College
Moving care for the elderly abroad
Project 1: Old age facilities for German speaking elderly in Thailand
Director: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schweppe
Research associates: Dr. Désirée Bender and Dr. Tina Hollstein
Funded by: Gutenberg Research College
Project 2: Old age homes for German elderly in Poland
Director: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schweppe
Research associate: Sonja, Großmann, M.A.
Funded by: Gutenberg Research College
Growing up transnationally in Kenia. Tourists as new care actors in the life of children
Director: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schweppe
Research associate: Dr. Njeri Chege
Going abroad – A social work concept for the transition of disadvantaged young people into the labor market. An analysis of the programme „Integration by exchange“
Director: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schweppe
Research associate: Dipl. Päd. Nele Sieker
Funded by: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Cuba – A transnational society in transformation
Financed by: Gutenberg Research College
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Former Research Projects
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Youth and Consumer Society
Director: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schweppe
Research associates: Dr. Andrea Braun, Dipl. Päd. Natasa Kranz-Kuljic, Dipl. Päd. Nele Sieker
funded by: private foundation (2013-2015)
Youth and Debts
funded by: Ministry of Social Affairs, Work, Health and Demography, Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) (2012-2015)
Director: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schweppe
Research associates: Dipl. Päd. Vera Lanzen, Dr. Joachim Wenzel
Client Research in Children and Youth Services
Directors: Prof. Dr. Gunther Graßhoff and Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schweppe
Research associates: Laura Paul, Stéphanie-Aline Yeshurun
funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG) (2011-2014)
Transnationalism and Poverty
Project at the Research Cluster „Social Dependencies and Social Networks“ at the Universities Mainz and Trier, Germany
Research associates: Dipl. Päd., Dipl. Soz. Désirée Bender; Dipl. Päd. Tina Hollstein; Dipl. Päd. Lena Huber
funded by: Research Ministry Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (2010-2013)
Transnational Family Care
Doctoral research group within the programme of the University of Mainz „PRO Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften”
funded by: University of Mainz, Germany (2009-2012)
Poverty and Migration
Project at the Research Cluster „Social Dependencies and Social Networks“ at the Universities Mainz and Trier, Germany
Research associates: Dipl. Päd., Dipl. Soz. Désirée Bender; Dipl. Päd. Tina Hollstein; Dipl. Päd. Lena Huber
funded by: Research Ministry Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (2006-2009)
Director of the Research and Councelling Center “Debts and Overindebtedness” (Forschungs- und Dokumentationsstelle für Verbraucherinsolvenz und Schuldnerberatung – Schuldnerfachberatungszentrum (SFZ)
funded by: Ministry of Social Affairs, Work, Health and Demography, Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) (2004-2015)