Claudia Böhme

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher with a research focus on the anthropology of new media, migration, digital education, and youth. Most recently, I worked at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media/Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig as part of the “Educational Ecosystems – Patterns, Practices and Services” (EEPPS) project, where I examined the practices and meanings of digital creation and programming for children and adolescents in Germany. Prior to that, I worked at the University of Trier, Germany, investigating the role of social media and smartphones for migrants at transit sites of migration for trust-building and future making, with the example of refugees in Kenya. For this project, I conducted research at the Kakuma refugee camp as well as in Eldoret, Nairobi, and Mombasa. I bring my anthropological expertise and my many years of experience in field research in Africa to AGYA. 

Through my involvement in AGYA’s extensive network of scholars from Arab countries and Germany, I find partners for a fruitful exchange of ideas on researching Arab-German and African-Arab relations in the areas of migration, social media, popular culture, and education.

Academic career