Dr. Mouna Maaroufi

• Transformations and infrastructures in migration and labor regimes
• Racialization, logistification, and precarization in racial capitalism
• Black and autonomous Marxism
• Anti-racist and autonomous labor struggles and social movements
• Urban solidaristic infrastructures, commons, and abolitionist futures

Selected Publications

Maaroufi, Mouna (2025). Arbeitsmärkte im rassifizierten Kapitalismus. In: Bojadžijev, Manuela, Mecheril, Paul, Quent, Matthias (eds.): Rassismusforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft, Studium und Praxis. NomosHandbuch (im Erscheinen).

Abram, Sandi, Bernhard Franz, Flückiger, Natascha, Hofstetter, Joana L. und Maaroufi, Mouna (2025). Cooking, Caring, and Commoning: Grassroots Community Kitchens Across Five European Cities. Urban Planning (10). (im Erscheinen)

Maaroufi, Mouna (2023). Kämpfe um Autonomie und Commons des Ankommens: Urbane Infrastrukturen und Infrapolitiken der Arbeitsvermittlung. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 11(1/2).

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Academic and Professional Activities

Since 2025
Research Associate at the Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology at the European University Viadrina

2022-2025
Research Associate (Postdoc) in General Sociology at the University of Hamburg in the international research project: Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe from Below: Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies, and Translocal Networks
PIs: Helge Schwiertz, Donatella della Porta, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Mojca Pajnik, and Sarah Schilliger

2016-2022
Labor Law Advisor at the Migration and Decent Work Center Brandenburg in Potsdam. Arbeit und Leben e.V. (DGB/VHS)

Academic Background

2017-2021
Doctoral dissertation at the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organization of Leuphana University Lüneburg, supervised by Prof. Manuela Bojadžijev and Prof. Sandro Mezzadra
Title of the dissertation: Racialization and Migration. Reconfiguring Infrastructures of Labour Supply after the 'Summer of Migration' (magna cum laude)

2014-2015
Master’s in Migration, Mobility and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London

2012-2013
Intensive Arabic course as part of an exchange year at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) in Beirut

2010-2013
Bachelor in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Sciences Po Paris in Menton