Author
Joma Thomé
Biodata
Joma Thomé is a doctoral researcher at the Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences, Fulda University. She holds a Master’s in Human Rights in Politics, Law and Society (Fulda University), and Bachelor degrees in Adventure Tourism Management (Munster Technological University) and Outdoor Education (Atlantic Technological University). Her doctoral thesis is a multi-sited ethnography on the lived experience of 'illegalised' migrants from the Maghreb on the so-called 'Balkan Route'. Joma’s research focuses on bottom-up understandings of mobility and migration, critical border studies, border violence(s), biopolitical technologies, and self-organisation practices by 'illegalised migrants'. She currently teaches at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences of Fulda University, Germany.
Recent publications
[Forthcoming] Thomé, Joma. (2026). ‘Der Grenzwald Als Manövrierraum (a Space to Manoeuvre): Emische Perspektiven Darauf, Wie Illegalisierte Nordafrikanische Migrant*innen Auf Der Balkanroute Grenzwälder Interpretieren, Navigieren Und Sich (Emotional) Mit Diesen Beschäftigen’. PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Wald, no. 180.
Thomé, Joma. (2025). ‘Taking Terrain Away: How Illegalised Migrants Experience and Counteract Technologies of Mobility Control at the Bosnian-Croatian Border’. In Encounters between Science and Technology Studies & Border and Migration Studies, 1st edn, edited by Silvan Pollozek, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Lisa Amelung, Olga Lafazani, and Aristotle Tympas. National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens Press.
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