IMISCOE Web Directory - Tobias Weidinger

First Name

Tobias

Middle Name/Infix

Last Name

Weidinger

City

Erlangen

Country

Germany

Current Employer

FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg

Function

PhD-student

Discipline

Geography

Biography

Since 2016, I am working as Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Cultural Geography and Development Research at the Institute of Geography of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where I am focusing on the topics migration to rural areas, rural tourism and regional development. Before starting my scientific career, I graduated in Cultural Geography from the same university and hold a B.A. and M.A. (with distinction) degree. I am active member of the “Working Group Rural Spaces” (“Arbeitskreis Ländliche Räume”) and "Working Group Geographical Migration Research" (Arbeitskreis Geographische Migrationsforschung) within the German Association of Geography (DGfG). Since 2016, I am also member of the German “Refugee Research Network” (“Netzwerk Fluchtforschung”).

Projects

"Residential location choice of recognized refugees in rural Lower Bavaria, Germany"

The aims of the project are:
1. to depict residential mobility patterns of recognised refugees in rural areas
2. to point out individual motivations and structural influencing factors for staying in rural areas, e.g., aspirations, dreams, importance of social bridges, labour market, educational opportunities, housing market etc.

Site of the study:
Counties of Regen and Freyung-Grafenau in the free-state of Bavaria, Germany

Methods:
1. Expert interviews with local stakeholders, e.g. from local and regional authorities, NGOs as well as volunteers and real estate agents
2. Quantitative survey among recognised refugees; topics included: evaluation of the current site of living, everyday activities, search for an apartment, socio-statistical data
3. Mobility maps of refugees about individually important places and its accessibility
4. Dream maps about future living preferences

More information: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Gekommen-um-zu-bleiben-Wohnstandortentscheidungen-anerkannter-Fluechtlinge-im-laendlichen-Raum-Niederbayerns-eine-retrospektive-Analyse

Profile URL

https://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/personen/tobias-weidinger/?lang=en

Keywords

Asylum, Forced migration, Integration, Refugees

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