PhD candidate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC)*

Monika Weissensteiner is an Erasmus Mundus PhD candidate at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminology and Criminal Law at Utrecht University (Netherlands) and at the Institute for Criminological Research at the University of Hamburg (Germany). She submitted her dissertation with the title "Policing-mobilities in the border-stripe. Cross-border police cooperation and viapolitics at the internal Schengen-borders of the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice" in October 2020.

Monika Weissensteiner's Phd research is a multisited ethnographic study that focuses on internal-Schengen borders and developments in law enforcement cooperation, and explores how security policy and practice, intertwined with programs aimed at managing (unauthorised) mobilities and at contrasting cross-border crime, unfold through security actors‘ experiences of everyday practices and through interactions of different levels (EU, state, local), actors and fields of knowledge. Her empirical study concerns inner-European border areas and developments in (cross-border) police cooperation. In her analysis she seeks to bring developments in security-, border- and policing-studies, criminological understandings of crime (control), and anthropological approaches to (in)security, im/mobility and law (enforcement) into a productive cross-disciplinary dialogue.

Monika's PhD project has been awarded an Erasmus+ Fellowship (E+EMJD) of the EU funding program of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

*The Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC) is an a EU funded programme, promoted by a consortium of four Universities: the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminology and Criminal Law at the Law Department of Utrecht University, the Institute for Criminological Research at the University of Hamburg, ELTE University in Budapest and the University of Kent. The DCGC is coordinated by the the SSPSSR of Kent University.