Ludger Pries
Senior Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. habil.
Expert for migration, labor relations, transnationalism
I work as a Sociologist and Seniorprofessor at the Department for Social Science at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany (Institutional Website).
Since the 1980s I have been doing research and teaching in Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, the USA and other countries.
My areas of interest are (international comparative) Sociology of Migration, Work and Organization, Lifecourse Research, Transnationalism, Evolutionary Sociology.
„In a fable, a dying farmer tells his children that there is atreasure buried in his field. They then dig up and around the field all over without finding the treasure. In the next year, however, the land thus worked bears threefold fruit. […] We will not find the treasure, but the world that we have dug for it will bear triple fruit to the spirit – even if in reality it had not been about the treasure at all, but about the fact that this digging is the necessity and inner determination of our spirit.“
Georg Simmel: Philosophische Kultur. Gesammelte Essais. Leipzig: Klinkhardt 1911, p. 5f
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Recently my review of the book „Die Asyllotterie“ of Ruud Koopmans appeared in Soziopolis. You can download it here.
Recently the article „Syrian refugees arriving to Germany – Choosing Corridors and Individual Characteristics of Forced Migrants“ written by Berna Zülficar Savci and me was published in Frontiers in Sociology, Sec. Migration and Society, Vol. 8. It could be downloaded here.
The article „Between Humanitarian Assistance and Externalizing of EU Borders: The EU-Turkey Deal and Refugee Related Organizations in Turkey“ by Ludger Pries and Berna Zülfikar Savci was published in the Journal on Migration and Humanitarian Scurity. It can be downloaded here.
Recently I gave an inaugural presentation at the „Symposium and PhD Training >Lived transnationalism in times of violent conflict – Cross-border connections and mobilities of people, goods and capital< at BICC (Bonn International Centre for Conflilct Studies). The slides can be downloaded here.
My handbook article „Migration – Klassische Theorien“ was published in: Antje Röder/Dariuš Zifonun (Hrsg.), Handbuch Migrationssoziologie. Wiesbaden: Springer, S. 1-28 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20773-1_5-1 
).
Recently my article „From economic remittances to societal transmittances. Experiences from the European Union“ was publilshed in Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 10-1, 1-20 (DOI 10.25364/02.9:2023.1.1). It can be downloaded here.
A new podcast and video were published referring to The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration, edited by Andreas Feldmann, Xochitl Bada, Jorge Durand and Stephanie Schütze (London/New York: Routledge), where Ximena Alba, Stephanie Schütze and me published the chapter 22 „The Nexus of Forced Migration and Organized Violence„. You can find the book here.
Recently my book „Verstehende Kooperation“ was published as open access Ebook, you can download it here.
„Toward a sociology of evolution in the Anthropocene – Shared intentionality and cooperation through understanding minds“ in Frontiers in Sociology, Sec. Sociological Theory (Link here ) which is based on my book „Verstehende Kooperation“ that you will find in the publication section
