Dr.in Mag.a Victoria Reitter , MA BA

Short profile

• Doctoral studies in Sociology at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg; dissertation title: “The Production of Statelessness: Governmental-Institutional Work in Dealing with Stateless Persons in Austria” (2024). My dissertation deals with statelessness in the context of flight migration to Austria and investigates the everyday decision-making processes and administrative practices in Austrian state authorities regarding the identification of stateless persons. In line with sociological institutionalism and underpinned by a multi-method approach which incorporates grounded theory and qualitative-ethnographic data, my thesis contributes to constructivist sociological theories on the production of precarious legal status at the organizational level.
• ÖAW Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna
• University assistant in the Department of Sociology and Social Geography, Paris Lodron University Salzburg
• Visiting fellowship at the Peter McMullin Centre for Statelessness (Melbourne) and the Complutense University (Madrid)
• Research assistant at the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna, and the Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and International Business Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Main research topics: Migration and flight, irregularity, statelessness, state authorities and bureaucracies