Anne K. Schlüter is a researcher and PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Münster, Germany. Inspired by social differentiation theory and the sociology of knowledge, she studies how social life is organized through processes of social translation, with a particular focus on law, migration, and religion. Her doctoral research, which she is continuing during her stay at CSLS, investigates the practice of credibility assessment in asylum claims based on religious conversion. Drawing on court ethnography conducted in asylum hearings, analysis of written decisions, and in-depth qualitative interviews with asylum judges, her work contributes to academic and public debates on these cases while also engaging with broader discussions on legal conflicts involving religion, refugee status determination, and the complex factors shaping judicial decision-making.
Previously, Anne K. Schlüter taught as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Münster, where she also earned her Master’s degree in Sociology. She is an editor of the blog of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies and is actively involved in several academic networks and working groups on social theory, qualitative research, forced migration studies, and religious pluralism. After her time at CSLS, she will join the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford as part of its Visiting Fellowships program.
