Subjects of Interest
- Migration Research: refugee migration, forms of privileged migration (lifestyle migration), retirement migration, temporary migration, mobilities
- Social Geography: negotiation of identities and belonging, constructions of home
- Rural Studies: constructions of rurality, representations and practices, transformations of rural areas
- Tourism Research: innovative entrepreneurs in rural tourism, tourism and authenticity, residential tourism
- Geographical Gerontology
List of publications
Latest articles in peer reviewed journals (*=SCI-listed)
*Kordel, S. & S. Lutsch (2018, under review): Status quo and potential of remigration among Transylvanian Saxons to rural Romania. In: European Countryside.
*Eimermann, M. & S. Kordel (2018): International lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs in two new immigration destinations: Understanding their evolving mix of embeddedness. In: Journal of Rural Studies (published online 8th of May 2018).
*Kordel, S. & P. Pohle (2018): International lifestyle migration in the Andes of Ecuador: how migrants from the USA perform privilege, import rurality and evaluate their impact on local community. In: Sociologia Ruralis, 58 (1), 126-146.
Monographs and Editorships / Organisation of special issues
Kordel, S., Weidinger, T. & I. Jelen (Eds., 2018): Current immigration processes to European peripheries: status quo, implications and development strategies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Kordel, S. (2017): Zuwanderung in ländliche Räume Europas. Themenheft in Europa Regional, 24.
Kordel, S. (2015): Striving for the „good life“ - home-making among senior citizens on the move. An analysis of German (pre)retirees in Spain and Germany in a continuum of tourism and migration. Diss. Univ. Erlangen. Institut für Geographie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2015): Kulturgeographisches Geländepraktikum (= Erlanger Skripte zum Geographiestudium 4).
Latest Book chapters with peer or editorial review
Weidinger. T. & S. Kordel (2018): Manifestations of exclusion and inclusion. Historical and current perspectives on refugee reception in rural Bavaria. In: Galera, G. et al. (Eds.): Alpine Refugees. Foreign immigration in the mountains of Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne.
Kordel, S. & T. Weidinger (2018): Editorial. Current processes of immigration to European peripheries: status quo, implications and development strategies. In: Kordel, S., Weidinger, T. & I. Jelen (Hrsg.): Current immigration processes to European peripheries: status quo, implications and development strategies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Kordel, S. & T. Weidinger (2017): Sicht der Geflüchteten auf ländliche Räume. In: Mehl. P. (Hrsg.)Aufnahme und Integration von Geflüchteten in ländliche Räume: Spezifika und (Forschungs-) herausforderungen (Thünen Report 53), 41-53.
Glorius, B., Kordel, S., Mehl, P., Schammann, H. & T. Weidinger (2017): Geflüchtete in ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands als Forschungsgegenstand: konzeptionelle Überlegungen im Nachgang des Workshops. In: Mehl, P. (Hrsg.): Aufnahme und Integration von Geflüchteten in ländliche Räume: Spezifika und (Forschungs-)herausforderungen (Thünen Report 53), 125-139.
