Lea Molina Caminero
Research Associate | Economy and Civil Society

Lea Molina Caminero has been a research associate in the research area "Economy and Civil Society" at the IRS since May 2022. As part of the lead project "Post-Office", she is researching spatio-temporal transformation processes in knowledge-generating forms of cooperation. As part of her dissertation project, she is researching inequalities in the context of multi-local labour mobility between urban and rural as well as northern and southern European regions.

Previously, she worked as a research assistant at vhw - Bundesverband für Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung e.V. (Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development) and at the Institute for Geographical Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. She obtained her Master of Arts in Social Geography at the University of Osnabrück in 2020. As part of her thesis, she completed a research internship at the Institute of Geography at the University of Lisbon. There, she investigated the interplay of lifestyle-related migration and new forms of working, as well as associated socio-spatial negotiation and transformation processes within the city of Lisbon.

Lea Molina Caminero is a member of the Feminist Geographies Working Group and the IMISCOE research cluster "Privileged Mobilities: local impacts, belonging and citizenship".

Projects

Ongoing Lead Projects

The lead project of the research focus "Economy and Civil Society" addresses profound transformation processes in knowledge and innovation societies, which in turn are characterised by disruptive events. The lead project "Post-Office" aims to understand the dynamics of change in knowledge-generating cooperation with its disruptive elements and to discuss resulting consequences for urban and rural regions. more info

Ongoing Qualification Projects

Das Projekt befasst sich mit den Machtungleichgewichten, die mit lebensstilbedingten Arbeitsmobilitäten einhergehen, indem es untersucht, wie mobil Arbeitende ihre relativ privilegierte Position im neuen räumlichen Kontext der Ankunft nutzen. Durch die Fokussierung auf ihre sozialräumlichen Praktiken und die Aushandlung ihrer eigenen Position innerhalb des lokalen Umfelds, liefert das Dissertationsprojekt Erkenntnisse darüber, wie lebensstilgeleitete Arbeitsmobilitäten lokale Gemeinschaften und sozialräumliche Transformationen beeinflussen. more info

Selected Publications by Year

2023
Schmiz, A., & Molina Caminero, L. (2023). Stadt ermöglichen - soziale Selektivität in Beteiligungsprozessen. In Y. Franz, & A. Strüver (Eds.), Stadtgeographie: Aktuelle Themen und Ansätze (pp. 79-112). Springer Spektrum. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65382-1_4
Molina Caminero, L., & McGarrigle, J. (2023). Socio-Spatial Negotiations in Lisbon: Reflections of Working-Aged Lifestyle Migrants on Place and Privilege. Population, Space and Place, 29(2), [e2613]. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2613
2022
Böcker, N., Dobrusskin, J., Jahre, S., Marvi, Z., & Molina Caminero, L. (2022). Erschütterungen, Verschiebungen, Umbrüche: Vernetzungstreffen Feministische Geographien. (Feministische Geo-RundMail; No. 91). https://ak-feministische-geographien.org/rundmail/

Selected Publications by Type

Journal Article
Molina Caminero, L., & McGarrigle, J. (2023). Socio-Spatial Negotiations in Lisbon: Reflections of Working-Aged Lifestyle Migrants on Place and Privilege. Population, Space and Place, 29(2), [e2613]. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2613
Contribution to Anthology
Schmiz, A., & Molina Caminero, L. (2023). Stadt ermöglichen - soziale Selektivität in Beteiligungsprozessen. In Y. Franz, & A. Strüver (Eds.), Stadtgeographie: Aktuelle Themen und Ansätze (pp. 79-112). Springer Spektrum. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65382-1_4
Working Paper, Discussion Paper
Böcker, N., Dobrusskin, J., Jahre, S., Marvi, Z., & Molina Caminero, L. (2022). Erschütterungen, Verschiebungen, Umbrüche: Vernetzungstreffen Feministische Geographien. (Feministische Geo-RundMail; No. 91). https://ak-feministische-geographien.org/rundmail/

Talks

2024
“Post-Office”: Spatio-temporal Transformation Processes in Knowledge Work

Vernetzungstreffen AK Labour Geographies

February/09/2024
Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung (IRS), Erkner

2023
“Post-Office”: Räumliche Perspektiven auf die Veränderungen in der wissensgenerierenden kollaborativen Arbeit

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023

September/20/2023
Goethe-Universität , Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2021
Being mobile while being grounded – Socio-spatial practices and positioning of young transnationals in Lisbon

RC21 Annual Conference

July/15/2021
digital, Antwerpen, Belgium

Reflections on ‘privileges’ within the EU mobility regime: Lifestyle, belonging and place (re)making of young transnationals in Lisbon

18th IMISCOE Annual Conference - Crossing borders, connecting cultures

July/09/2021
Luxembourg [online]

2019
Freiraumentwicklung im Ankunftsquartier: Stadtentwicklung in der postmigrantischen Stadt

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019

September/28/2019
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2018
Weibliche (Arbeits-)Migration in Südafrika – Translokalität, Gender und ländliche Entwicklung

16. Economy, Feminism and Science (efas) Fachtagung: Frauen global: Perspektiven der feministischen Ökonomie

December/07/2018
HTW Berlin