René Kreichauf

Research interests: migration, asylum, displacement, urban policy, urban development, migrant movements and protests, racial capitalism, state violence, and social justice.

Bio: René Kreichauf is professor in urban studies and planning at Vrije Universiteit Brussel where he also serves as FWO postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Erasmus Mundus MSc 4CITIES and the MSc Urban Studies master’s degree programs at its department of geography. His research and teaching topics include displacement, urban migration governance, migrant activism and protest, state violence, and racial capitalism.

During his time at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Kreichauf will work on a project analyzing the extent to which international migrants’ experiences of displacement are continued and multiplied in cities of arrival, and the ways international processes and experiences of displacement intersect and overlap with those of unhoused populations.

Kreichauf received a Doctor of Sciences in geography from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a Ph.D. in sociology from Freie Universtität Berlin. He previously held appointments as visiting researcher, professor, and guest lecturer at City University New York, New York University, Rutgers University, and The New School for Social Research