Monograph
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2018. Egyptian Diaspora Activism during the Arab Uprisings: Insights from Paris and Vienna. London: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics Series).
ISBN: 9781138485600.
Special issues (editor)
- Krawatzek, Félix; Müller-Funk, Lea (eds). 2019. “Special issue: Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism: Practices, Narratives of Belonging and the Role of the State”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(6).
Peer-reviewed journals
- Fröhlich, Christiane; Müller-Funk; Lea. forthcoming. “Mobility Control as State-Making in Civil War: Forcing Exit, Selective Return and Strategic Laissez-Faire.” Migration Politics. Pre-print.
- Müller-Funk, Lea; Fransen, Sonja. 2022. “I will return strong’: The role of life aspirations in refugees’ return migration.” International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183221131554.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2020. “Research with refugees in fragile political contexts: How ethical reflections impact methodological choices.” Journal of Refugee Studies (open access). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa013.
- Krawatzek, Félix; Müller-Funk, Lea. 2019. “Two centuries of Flows between ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Political Remittances and Their Transformative Potential.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(6): 1003-1024 (open access). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554282
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2019. “Fluid identities, Diaspora Youth Activists and the (Post-) Arab Spring: How Narratives of Belonging Can Change over Time.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(6): 1112-1128 (open access). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554300.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2017. “Managing Distance: Examining Policies Governing Egyptian Emigration.” Egypte Monde Arabe 15: 47-69 (open access). http://journals.openedition.org/ema/3656; DOI: 10.4000/ema.3656
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2016. “Diaspora Mobilizations in the Egyptian (Post)Revolutionary Process. Comparing Transnational Political Participation in Paris and Vienna.” Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 14(3): 353-370. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2016.1180471
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2014. “Transnational Politics, Women & the Egyptian Revolution: Examples from Paris.” Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 2(1): 29-55 (open access). https://doi.org/10.24847/22i2014.25
Working Papers and Policy Briefs
- Müller-Funk, Lea; Katharina Natter. Forced migration governance at critical junctures of state formation in Tunisia. MAGYC Working Paper 4.2.
- Weihe, Mattea; Müller-Funk, Abdou, Mounkaila. How EU Pressure Hampers Circular Migration between Niger and Libya. Hamburg: GIGA Focus Middle East 5/2021.
- Weihe, Mattea; Müller-Funk, Lea; Abdou, Mounkaila. 2021. Negotiating Circular Migration from Niger to Libya and back: Between Policies and Non-Policies (MAGYC Policy Brief). Version française : Négocier la migration circulaire entre le Niger et La Libye : entre politiques et non-politiques (MAGYC Policy Brief).
- Müller-Funk, Lea; Fröhlich, Christiane; Bank, André: State(s) of Negotiation: Drivers of Forced Migration Governance in Most of the World, GIGA Working Paper, No. 323, August 2020.
- Ghabash, Weam; Hatip; Mustafa, Müller-Funk, Lea; Shamaa, Rand; Turkmani, Mouran. 2020. Refugee Perspectives on Migration Policy: Lessons from the Middle East | وجهات نظر اللاجئين حول سياسة الهجرة | Göç Politikalarına Mültecilerin Bakış Açısı. Hamburg: GIGA Focus Middle East.
- Fröhlich, Christiane; Müller-Funk, Lea. 2020. Perceiving Migration Crises: A View from the European Neighbourhood. Hamburg: GIGA Focus Middle East.
- Müller-Funk, Lea; Fransen, Sonja. 2020. Return aspirations and coerced return: A case study on Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon. IMI Working Paper 162.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2019. “Adapting to staying, or imagining futures elsewhere: Migration decision-making of Syrian refugees in Turkey“ IMI Working Paper Series 154.
- Müller-Funk, Lea et al. 2019. “Researching urban forced migrants in Turkey and Lebanon: Alternative ways to study a vulnerable population in fragile political contexts.” IMI Working Paper Series 151.
Book chapters
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2018. “Diaspora politics and political remittances: a conceptual reflection.” Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies. Edited by Robin Cohen, Carolin Fischer. London: Routledge, 251-259.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2017. “Une typologie des activistes transnationaux : L’exemple des activistes égyptiens à Vienne et à Paris dans les soulèvements arabes.” In Les migrants, acteurs des changements politiques en Afrique ? Edited by S. Mesplé-Somps, L. Chauvet, F. Gubert, et T. Jaulin. Brussels: DeBoeck, 21-38.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2016. “Inventing an Egyptian transnational nation: Homeland politics in the Arab Spring Uprisings between migration processes, diasporic policies and political opportunity structures.” In Migration in the Mediterranean: Socio-Economic Perspectives. Edited by Elena Ambrosetti, Donatella Strangio and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden. London: Routledge, 192-212.
- Müller-Funk, Lea; Procházka, Stephan. 2016. “Einleitung.” In Unterwegs in Saudi-Arabien: Historische, gesellschaftliche und kulturwissenschaftliche Hintergründe. Edited by Stephan Procházka. Vienna: Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik der
Universität Wien, 9-18. - Müller-Funk, Lea et al. 2014. “Einleitung.” In Kulturelle Schnittstelle Mesopotamien, Anatolien, Kurdistan. Geschichte. Sprachen. Gegenwart. Edited by Lea Müller-Funk et al. Vienna: Selbstverlag
des Instituts für Orientalistik der Universität Wien, 5-15.
Book reviews
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2020. “Book Review: The politics of migration in modern Egypt: Strategies for regime survival in autocracies, by Gerasimos Tsourapas”. Mediterranean Politics 27(5): 678-680. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2020.1840018.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2016. “Review A Global Middle East. Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940. Edited by
Liat Kozma, Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnityer.” WZKM 106: 351-354. - Müller-Funk, Lea. 2014. “Rezension Pour un Féminisme Méditerranéen. Von Fawzia Zouari.” WZKM 104: 350-352.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2013. “Review Discrimination and Tolerance in the Middle East. Edited by Kristiaan Aercke, VaEīd Behmardī and
Ray Mouawad.” WZKM 103: 505-506. - Müller-Funk, Lea. 2013. “Rezension Alltagsmobilitäten. Aufbruch marokkanischer Lebenswelten. Herausgegeben von Jörg Gertel und Ingo Breuer.” WZKM 103: 441-444.
Online and media publications
(selection)
- Müller-Funk, Lea; Woertz, Eckart; Fröhlich, Christiane. 2020. COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa and Its Impact on Migration, GIGA Spotlight, July 2020.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2020.“‘You feel like in prison here’: imagining a future in Lebanon through Syrian eyes.” Open Democracy, 8 July 2020.
- Belloni, Milena; Müller-Funk, Lea; Üstübici, Aysen; Welfens, Natalie (eds). 2020. “The refugees who dare to aspire. A roundtable.” Open Democracy, 6 July 2020.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2018. “The role of external players in refugee politics in the Middle East: Lebanese and Turkish policies towards Syrian refugees and geopolitical constellations.” Unpacking Migration Blog, 18 September 2018.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2017. “Kein Ende in Sicht: Libanesische Flüchtlingspolitik im sechsten Jahr des syrischen Bürgerkriegs.” Das Magazin der Österreichischen Liga für Menschenrechte. September 2017, p. 21-34. Download article here.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2015. “Migrationsforschung: Für wen forsche ich?” Das Magazin der Österreichischen Liga für Menschenrechte. January 2015, p. 6.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2014. “Eine Studienexkursion in das Land der Superlative. Zwei Wochen Saudiarabien.” UniVienna bloggt. 15 May 2014.
- Müller-Funk, Lea. 2012. “Auf dem Tahrir-Platz von Wien.” Wiener Zeitung. 7 February 2012.