Verena Hucke

Verena Hucke, MA is a researcher and PhD candidate at the chair of Sociology of Diversity, University of Kassel, Germany, where she is currently pursuing her doctoral thesis on the negotiation of sexualities in the migration regime in South Africa. While focussing the experiences of lesbian migrant women who migrated from other African countries to South Africa, Verena is interested in processes of bordering and the transgression of (different kinds of) borders. For her PhD research she was a visiting researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 2019, 2020 and 2022. Verena holds an MA in International Migration and Intercultural Relations from the University of Osnabrück and a BA in Gender Studies and Pedagogy from the University of Oldenburg. Her research interests include gender studies and queer/feminist theory, critical migration and border regime studies and qualitative methodology.

Recent publications:

Hucke, Verena (2022). Differential Movements. Lesbian Migrant Women’s Encounters with, and Negotiations of, South Africa’s Border Regime. In: Camminga, B/Marnell, John (Hg.), Queer and Trans African Mobilities. Migration, Asylum and Diaspora. Bloomsbury/Zed Books. (Double Blind Peer Reviewed)

Hucke, Verena (2022). ‘For Me It Is Double Quarantine Inside’. Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic – the Case of Lesbian Migrant Women in South Africa. In: Refugee Review (Migration, Asylum and Refuge during a Global Pandemic: Perspectives of Migrants, Researchers and Practitioners), Ausgabe 5, 107-121. (Double Blind Peer Reviewed)

Hucke, Verena (2021). Sexualities and Borders. Differential Movements of Queer Migrants within the Borderland. In: Zhou, Y. Rachel/Sinding, Christina/Goellnicht, Donald (Hg.), Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalization. New Perspectives. Routledge, 19–31.