Irene Messinger
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Feminist Political Scientist, living and working in Vienna, Austria.
Irene Messinger received her doctoral degree in Dec 2011 from the University of Vienna, after she completed her PhD in political science on the phenomena of marriage of convenience in Austria. Her work was honoured with numerous prizes and awards. Publication: Phony or Not. Construction and Criminalization of Phony Marriages - Past and Present.
Previously she worked as social worker and legal counselor for asylum seekers and illegalized immigrants.
2013-2017 Ms Messinger lead a research project on marriages of convenience of persecuted (jewish) women during the Nazi era. 2018 Exhibition "Persecuted. Engaged. Married. Marriages of convenience in exile", Jewish Museum Vienna
Recent research project 2020: Austrian social workers (Fürsorgerinnen) in Exile
Address: Vienna, Austria
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Feminist Political Scientist, living and working in Vienna, Austria.
Irene Messinger received her doctoral degree in Dec 2011 from the University of Vienna, after she completed her PhD in political science on the phenomena of marriage of convenience in Austria. Her work was honoured with numerous prizes and awards. Publication: Phony or Not. Construction and Criminalization of Phony Marriages - Past and Present.
Previously she worked as social worker and legal counselor for asylum seekers and illegalized immigrants.
2013-2017 Ms Messinger lead a research project on marriages of convenience of persecuted (jewish) women during the Nazi era. 2018 Exhibition "Persecuted. Engaged. Married. Marriages of convenience in exile", Jewish Museum Vienna
Recent research project 2020: Austrian social workers (Fürsorgerinnen) in Exile
Address: Vienna, Austria
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seen as undermining tightening migration regimes. This article examines how Austrian
Alien Law constitutes entering into such a marriage as a criminal offense and looks at the legal proceedings in district courts in Vienna where most cases of alleged ‘marriages of convenience’ are being dealt with. It also studies the work of the Viennese branch of alien police investigating into this offense. These practices are often in conflict with Article 8 and 12 of the European Convention of Human Rights, granting the right to respect for private and family life and the right to marry
seen as undermining tightening migration regimes. This article examines how Austrian
Alien Law constitutes entering into such a marriage as a criminal offense and looks at the legal proceedings in district courts in Vienna where most cases of alleged ‘marriages of convenience’ are being dealt with. It also studies the work of the Viennese branch of alien police investigating into this offense. These practices are often in conflict with Article 8 and 12 of the European Convention of Human Rights, granting the right to respect for private and family life and the right to marry
18.-20.06.2015, London
07.-09.01.2015, Imperial War Museum, London
17.-19.10.2014, Berlin
13.-15.10.2014, Vienna
28.-30.03.2014, Literaturhaus Wien
05.-07.12.2013, Wien
Exil und Emigration erschüttern meist die Vorstellungen der Geflüchteten von Geschlechterverhältnissen. Zwar lässt die unsichere Situation diese teils an traditionellen Rollenbildern festhalten, sie birgt allerdings ebenso das Potential, Geschlechtsidentitäten völlig neu zu verhandeln und zu interpretieren. Doing Gender in Exile zeigt, wie emigrierte Personen unter dem Druck der neuen Verhältnisse sowie auf eigene Initiative an ihrer geschlechtlichen Identität festhalten oder sie verwerfen bzw., wie sie diese neu interpretieren oder übersetzen.
ISBN: 978-3-89691-276-3
Einleitungstext zum Ausstellungskatalog "Verfolgt. Verlobt. Verheiratet.", Jüdisches Museum Wien, gemeinsam mit Sabine Bergler
Die Wiener Tänzerin Anita Bild floh Anfang 1939 mit einem Hausmädchen-Visum nach England, wo sie durch eine Scheinehe wieder auftreten konnte. Sie organisierte die Ausreise ihrer Eltern nach London, die in einem Flüchtlingsheim unterkamen, dessen Leiter Fritz Bild sie später heiratete. Bekannt wurde sie als »Anita Douglas – The Viennese Nightingale« und später bei BBC. Anita Bild schrieb 1991 ihre Lebenserinnerungen für ihre Familie. Die Memoiren werden von wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen renommierter Expertinnen begleitet. Sie kontextualisieren die Tanzkarriere vor und im Exil, die Situation von Hausangestellten in England und Anita Bilds Scheinehe und zeichnen biographische Skizzen über Anitas Vater, den Juristen Georg Lelewer, den Musiker Franz Eugen Klein und ihren Scheinehemann Donald Douglas.
Die Texte im Band sind zweisprachig, vorwiegend in englischer Sprache, verfasst.