Magnus Treiber takes over Felsberger Institut e.V. project coordination
Magnus Treiber holds a Ph.D. from Munich University. Trained as anthropologist he did his doctoral research on milieus and life worlds of young urbanites in Asmara, capital of Eritrea (Der Traum vom guten Leben. 2005). Together with Prof. Dr. Kurt Beck he headed the research project „Dynamic worlds of imagination – Learning processes, knowledge and communication among young urban migrants from Eritrea and Ethiopia” (2009-2013) within the Bavarian Research Alliance’s network “Migration and Knowledge” (ForMig). Within this framework he conducted fieldwork in Addis Ababa/Ethiopia and Khartoum/Sudan.
The Horn of Africa in all its political, cultural and social diversity is one of his major interests. His recent publications focus on urban anthropology and migration issues as well as on political and existential anthropology. In his current book project (“Habilitationsprojekt”, Bayreuth University) Magnus Treiber interprets „informality and informalisation“ in emigration from Eritrea from a global as well as from an existential perspective.
After teaching at Munich and Bayreuth Universities he will now take over the academic coordination of two EU-funded projects at Felsberger Institut e.V.: “Promotion of language and advancement of study for the integration of unaccompanied minor refugees (UMR’s) into the German school and educational system” and “Training and awareness raising for psychotherapists working with unaccompanied minors”. Furthermore he will be responsible for the development of Felsberger Institut’s ‘Horn of Africa’ profile.
Magnus Treiber is a member of the German Anthropological Association (GAA), the ‚European Association of Social Anthropologists‘ (EASA) as well as the ‚International Consortium for Research on Violence‘ (ICRoV).