Dr Tine Hanrieder

Tine Hanrieder does research on labour and labour migration in the social sector. A political scientist by training, Tine connects insights from international relations, political economy and sociology to understand how care economies are governed nationally and internationally. She has previously also worked on global health, international theory, and institutional change in world politics.

She is the author of a monograph on the history of the WHO International Organization in Time and of articles spanning the areas of global governance, international political economy, and social theory. Before joining the LSE, Tine was a research group leader on Global Humanitarian Medicine at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, for which she won a Volkswagen Foundation Free Spirit (Freigeist) Fellowship. Tine was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, the Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société/Cermes3, Northwestern University, and UC Berkeley. She is an elected member of the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and serves as the Department’s Doctoral Programme Director.

You can see a full list of Dr Tine Hanrieder’s publications here.

Selected publications

• Hanrieder, T., & Janauschek, L. (2025). The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism. Review of International Political Economy 32(4), 1164–1188
• Hanrieder, Tine 2025: Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: Community health workers in the United States. New Political Economy online first.
• Eckl, Julian and Hanrieder, Tine 2023: The political economy of consulting firms in reform processes: the case of the World Health Organization. Review of the International Political Economy 30(6), 2309-2332
• Hanrieder, Tine 2019: How Do Professions Globalize? Lessons from the Global South in US Medical Education, International Political Sociology 13:3, 296-314.
• Hanrieder, Tine 2015: International Organization in Time: Fragmentation and Reform. Oxford University Press.

Expertise

Migration; labour; care economy; sociology of professions; global health

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