Publications and media

Monograph

• Müller-Funk, Lea. 2019. 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). 2020. “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     

• Müller-Funk, Lea; Natter, Katharina. 2023. “(Trans)formations de l’État et gouvernance des migrations forcées en Tunisie”, Afrique(s) en mouvement 6(2): 31-41. 
• Müller-Funk, Lea. 2023. “Violence, life aspirations and displacement trajectories in civil war contexts.” International Migration 61: 209-227. 
• Müller-Funk, Lea; Fröhlich, Christiane; Bank, André. “Disentangling Forced Migration Governance: Actors and Drivers along the Displacement Continuum.” International Migration Review (online first). 
• Müller-Funk, Lea; Üstübici, Aysen; Belloni, Milena. 2023. “Daring to aspire: Theorising aspirations in contexts of displacement and highly constrained mobility.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(15): 3816-3835. 
• Müller-Funk, Lea; Natter, Katharina. “Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization”, Mediterranean Politics (online first). 
• Fröhlich, Christiane; Müller-Funk; Lea. 2023. “Mobility Control as State-Making in Civil War: Forcing Exit, Selective Return and Strategic Laissez-Faire.” Migration Politics 2(001): 1-28. 
• Müller-Funk, Lea; Fransen, Sonja. 2023. “’I will return strong’: The role of life aspirations in refugees’ return migration.” International Migration Review 57(4): 1739-1770. 
• Müller-Funk, Lea. 2021. “Research with refugees in fragile political contexts: How ethical reflections impact methodological choices.” Journal of Refugee Studies 34(2): 2308–2332. 
• Krawatzek, Félix; Müller-Funk, Lea. 2020. “Two centuries of Flows between ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Political Remittances and Their Transformative Potential.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(6): 1003-1024. 
• Müller-Funk, Lea. 2020. “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. 
• Müller-Funk, Lea. 2017. “Managing Distance: Examining Policies Governing Egyptian Emigration.” Egypte Monde Arabe 15: 47-69. https://doi.org/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. 
• 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. 

Working Papers and Policy Briefs

• Müller-Funk, Lea; Ghabash, Weam. 2025. “Chapter 2: The SYREALITY Survey (Wave 1) (Version 4.0.)”. Methodological Handbook SYREALITY. Link here.  
• Müller-Funk, Lea; Abusulttan, Saja; Kabbani, Mohammad; Karabajakian, Isabelle; Omran, Lina; Yahya, Karam. 2025. “Chapter 3: The Qualitative Data (Version 3.0.)”. Methodological Handbook SYREALITY. Link here.
• Fröhlich, Christiane; Müller-Funk, Lea. 2024. „Externalising Perceived Crises: A View from Europe’s Southern and Eastern Neighbours”. In Externalizing Asylum: A compendium of scientific knowledge. Edited by Ulrike Krause and Christiane Fröhlich. Link here.
• Müller-Funk, Lea. 2023. “Chapter 1: Data Management. Version 1.0.” Methodological Handbook SYREALITY. January 2023. Link here.
• Müller-Funk, Lea; Katharina Natter. 2022. Forced migration governance at critical junctures of state formation in Tunisia. MAGYC Working Paper 4.2.
• Weihe, Mattea; Müller-Funk, Abdou, Mounkaila. 2021. 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            

• Natter, Katharina; Müller-Funk, Lea. 2025. “Maghreb states in the international refugee regime: Between strategic alignment, alternative pathways, and confrontations.” Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics. Edited by Tamirace Fakhoury and Chatty Dawn. London: Bloomsbury, 129-152. 
• 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. 2025. “Book Review: Waiting for the Revolution to End”. International Migration Review 59(1): 567-569. 
• 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.