Research Fellow from 2004 until 2009 with the project "Konversionsgeschichten: Islamische Bekehrung im heutigen Ostafrika als individuelle Erfahrung und soziale Praxis“.
Affiliated with the Age and Generation research unit since 2021

Tabea Scharrer is a social anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, working on migration, inequality and religion. She is also Associate at the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Tabea has conducted research in refugee camps in Tanzania, about Islamic missionary movements in East Africa and with Somali migrants in Kenyan urban areas and in several European cities. Her current project deals with socio-economic inequality in the context of forced migration. Tabea's publications include the monograph 'Narrative islamischer Konversion: Biographische Erzählungen konvertierter Muslime in Ostafrika' (transcript, 2013) and three co-edited volumes, on 'Middle Classes in Africa' (Palgrave, 2018), on 'Mobile Urbanity. Somali Urban Presence in East Africa' (Berghahn, 2019) and the first German-language handbook on forced migration research (Handbuch Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung, Nomos, 2023). She is member of the editorial board of the journal 'Comparative Migration Studies'.