Katharina Natter
Senior assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. K. Natter
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6864
- k.natter@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9683-0567
Katharina Natter is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science.
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Katharina Natter is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science.
She researches migration politics from a comparative perspective, with a particular focus on the role of political regimes in immigration policymaking. Katharina’s work seeks to advance migration policy theory and to connect it with broader social science research on modern statehood and political change. Hereby, she also hopes to contribute to the wider academic effort of bridging theorizations of socio-political processes in the ‘Global South’ and the ‘Global North’.
Katharina has conducted extensive field research on the politics of migration in Morocco and Tunisia, but has also worked on European migration policies and on the link between migration and development. She has published in International Migration Review, Population and Development Review, Political Research Exchange, Comparative Migration Studies and the Journal of North African Studies. Her recent book, The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States: Morocco and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective, has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Katharina received her PhD in Political Sociology from the University of Amsterdam in 2019. Prior to that, she worked at the International Migration Institute (University of Oxford) and studied Comparative Politics at SciencesPo Paris. Since 2011, she is also involved in Asylos, an NGO providing Country of Origin research for lawyers representing asylum seekers.
Personal website: katharinanatter.com.
PhD supervision
Katharina Natter is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD candidates to send research proposals in the areas of:
- international migration and migration politics;
- comparative public policy across the Global North/Global South divide;
- political regime dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa.
See more information on PhD positions:
Senior assistant professor
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- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Natter K. (5 September 2023), Authoritarianism and immigration policy: Tunisia shows it's not that straightforward. The Loop - ECPR Political Science Blog. [blog entry].
- Natter K., Norman K. & Stel N. (2023), Strategic non-regulation as migration governance, Migration Politics 2: 004.
- Müller-Funk L. & Natter K. (2023), Forced migration governance in Tunisia: balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization, Mediterranean Politics : 1-25.
- Müller-Funk L. & Natter K. (2023), (Trans)formations de l’État et gouvernance des migrations forcées en Tunisie, Afrique(s) en mouvement 6: 31-41.
- Natter K. (2023), The il/liberal paradox: conceptualising immigration policy trade-offs across the democracy/autocracy divide, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies : .
- Natter K. (2023), The politics of immigration beyond liberal states: Morocco and Tunisia in comparative perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Natter K. (5 September 2023), Reinventing a broken wheel: what the EU-Tunisia Deal reveals over Europe’s migration cooperation. Verfassungsblog. [blog entry].
- Natter K. & Thiollet H. (2022), Theorising migration politics: do political regimes matter?, Third World Quarterly 43(7): 1515-1530.
- Gazzotti L., Natter K. & Mouthaan M. (2022), Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance, Territory, Politics, Governance : .
- Natter K., Commentary: Tunisia’s migration policy: the ambiguous consequences of democratization. Tunis, Tunisia: Heinrich Böll Foundation. [blog entry].
- Müller-Funk L. & Natter K. (2022), Forced migration governance at critical junctures of state formation in Tunisia no. 4.2. Liège, Belgium: MAGYC Working Paper Series, University of Liège. [Working paper].
- Berriane M., de Haas H. & Natter K. (2021), Social transformations and migrations in Morocco no. 171. Amsterdam: International Migration Institute. [working paper].
- Natter K. (2021), Beyond the dichotomy of liberal and illiberal migration governance. In: Carmel E., Lenner K. & Paul R. (Eds.), Handbook on the governance and politics of migration. Elgar Handbooks in Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 110-122.
- Natter K. (2021), Tunisia’s migration politics throughout the 2011 revolution: revisiting the democratisation–migrant rights nexus, Third World Quarterly : 1-19.
- Natter K. (2021), Ad-hocratic immigration governance: how states secure their power over immigration through intentional ambiguity, Territory, Politics, Governance : 1-18.
- Natter K. (2021), Externalising Migration Governance Through Civil Society Review of: Dini S. & Giusa C. (2020) Externalising migration governance through civil society, Mobility & Politics, International migration 59(2): 269-271.
- Natter K. (2020), Policy Briefs WP4: key knowledge questions on migration drivers. Migration Research Hub (IMISCOE). [policy paper].
- Natter K. (2020), Autocrats, democrats and immigration policy. MP3: The Borders of Equality Podcast. [audio].
- Haas H. de, Fransen S., Natter K., Schewel K. & Vezzoli S. (2020), Social transformation no. Working Paper 166. Amsterdam: International Migration Institute (IMI) (International Migration Institute (IMI)). [working paper].
- Natter K. (2020), Crafting a ‘liberal monarchy’: regime consolidation and immigration policy reform in Morocco, The Journal of North African Studies : 1-25.
- Natter K. (2020), Immigration. In: Caliendo S.M. & Charlton D. McIlwain (Eds.), The Routledge companion to race and ethnicity. London: Routledge. 60-67.
- Natter K., Czaika M. & Haas H. de (2020), Political party ideology and immigration policy reform: an empirical enquiry, Political Research Exchange 2(1): 1-27.
- Natter K. (2020), Maghreb – Migration Patterns and Policies between the Sahara and the Mediterranean. Osnabrueck, Germany: German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS)). [policy paper].
- Natter K. (2019) Review of Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change by A.K. Boucher and J. Gest. Review of: Boucher A.K. & Gest J. (2018), Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. International Migration Review .
- Natter K. (8 November 2019), Political regimes and immigration policymaking. The contrasting cases of Morocco and Tunisia (Dissertatie, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Haas H. de, Thiollet H. & Bauböck R.
- Haas H. de, Czaika M., Flahaux M.L., Mahendra E., Natter K., Vezzoli S. & Villares-Varela M. (2019), International migration: trends, determinants, and policy effects, Population and Development Review 45(4): 885-922.
- Natter K. & Haas H. de (25 July 2018), There’s No Hard Right–Soft Left Divide on Migration Policy. News Deeply. [blog entry].
- Natter K. (2018), Autocratic immigration policymaking: the illiberal paradox hypothesis no. 147. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: International Migration Institute Working Paper Series (University of Amsterdam). [working paper].
- Natter K. (2018), Rethinking immigration policy theory beyond ‘Western liberal democracies’, Comparative Migration Studies (6): 4.
- Haas H. de, Natter K. & Vezzoli S. (2018), Growing restrictiveness or changing selection? The nature and evolution of migration policies, International Migration Review 52(2): 324-367.
- Natter K. (16 December 2016), There is no ‘silver bullet’ migration policy. Hein de Haas Blog. [blog entry].
- Natter K. (2016), Mehr als nur Herkunftsländer: Migrationsmuster in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien. Berlin, Germany: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). [policy paper].
- Berriane M., Haas H. de & Natter K. (2016), Revisiting Moroccan Migrations. London, UK: Routledge.
- Natter K. (25 August 2016), Migrationspolitik: Keine eierlegende Wollmilchsau. Der Standard.
- Berriane M., Haas H. de & Natter K. (2015), Introduction: revisiting Moroccan migrations, The Journal of North African Studies 20(4): 503-521.
- Natter K. (2015), Almost home? Morocco’s incomplete migration reforms, World Politics Review : .
- Haas H. de, Natter K. & Vezzoli S. (2015), Conceptualizing and measuring migration policy change, Comparative Migration Studies 3(15): 1-21.
- Natter K. (2015), Revolution and political transition in Tunisia: a migration game changer?, Migration Information Source : .
- Natter & K. (2014), The formation of Morocco's policy towards irregular migration (2000-2007): political rationale and policy processes, International Migration 52(2): 15-28.
- Natter K. (2014), Fifty years of Maghreb emigration : how states shaped Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian emigration no. 95. Oxford, UK: International Migration Institute Working Paper Series (University of Oxford). [working paper].
- I am on the board of trustees of the NGO Asylos (https://www.asylos.eu/)