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Hannah Pool is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. She is an economic sociologist whose research focuses on the intersection of international migration, money, and borders.
Her book, The Game. The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe (Oxford University Press, 2025), received the Alice Amsden Award from SASE.
Her research has been awarded the Dissertation Prize of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Dietrich Thränhart Prize of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), the Maria Ioannis Baganha Prize for Migration Studies of IMISCOE, the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, and the Albert Ballin Prize for Globalization Studies.
Hannah has been a visiting scholar at the Refugee Studies Center and the COMPAS Institute at Oxford University, Columbia University, and the Berlin Center for Social Sciences (WZB). She studied in St. Andrews, Tehran, and Dresden, funded by the German National Academic Scholarship and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Expertise
- Migration
- Economic Sociology
- Borders
- Climate Mobilities
- Ethnography
- Qualitative methods