Mag. Dr. Monika Mayrhofer
Monika Mayrhofer studied political science at the Universities of Vienna and Copenhagen and received her PhD in 2008. Her research areas are climate change with a particular focus on climate change-related mobilities from a human rights perspective, intersectional inequality and discrimination, and international and European human rights discourses, policies and systems from a political science point of view.
She joined the Department of Applied Sociology of Law and Criminology as a Senior Scientist in July 2023. Previously, she worked as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (2006-2008) and as a Senior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Fundamental and Human Rights in Vienna from 2011. Since 2004, she has been teaching regularly at the University of Vienna and at the University of Krems. From 2010-2015 she repeatedly was a visiting professor at the Institute of International Studies in Bangkok/Thailand.
Phone: +43 512 507
Climate change and mobility; human rights impact of climate policies; equality, anti-discrimination and intersectionality with focus on gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, racism, rights of refugees and IDPs; international and European human rights system; gender, postcolonial, critical, political and human rights theory
Previous projects (selection) .
The Concept of Vulnerability in the Human Rights Context (2019-2023), Research Project (P 32130) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
ClimMobil - Judicial and policy responses to climate change-related mobility in the European Union with a focus on Austria and Sweden (KR18AC0K14747, ACRP 11th Call) (2019-2022) funded by the Climate and Energy Fund of the Austrian Federal State
ClimAccount - Human Rights Accountability of the EU and Austria for Climate policies in Third Countries and their possible Effects on Migration (KR13AC6K11043) (2014-2016), funded by the Climate and Energy Fund of the Federal State
FRAME Fostering Human Rights Among European (external and internal) Policies’, Research Project funded by European Commission FP 7 (2013-2017)
Publications (Selection)
See https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0160-604X
Margit Ammer and Monika Mayrhofer (accepted and forthcoming) Cross-Border Disaster Displacement and Non-Refoulement under Article 3 ECHR in the European Context and Austria, International Journal of Refugee Law
Monika Mayrhofer and Margit Ammer (2022) Climate mobility to Europe: The case of disaster displacement in Austrian asylum procedures, Frontiers in Climate, Vol. 4, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.990558/full
Carol Farbotko, Fanny Thornton, Monika Mayrhofer and Elfriede Hermann (2022) Climate mobilities, rights and justice: Complexities and particularities, Frontiers in Climate, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.1026486/full
Monika Mayrhofer (2021) ‘Intersectionality’, in: Binder, Christina, Nowak, Manfred, Hofbauer, Jane A. and Janig, Philipp (eds) Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903621.intersectionality
Monika Mayrhofer (2021) ‘The institutional architecture of human rights in the EU’, in: Wouters, Jan, Nowak Manfred, Chané Anna-Luise and Hachez, Nicolas (eds.) The European Union and Human Rights: Law and Policy, Oxford University Press, 117-134. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198814191.001.0001.
Monika Mayrhofer (2020) ‘Victims, security threats or agents? - Framing climate change-related mobility in international human rights documents’, International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse, Vol. 8, No. 2, 9-33. ISSN 1839 8308.
Monika Mayrhofer (2020) ‘The challenges of the concept of vulnerability in the human rights context from a discourse-analytical perspective’, Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte/journal for human rights, Vol. 14, No. 2, 156-175. ISBN 978-3-7344-1203.
Monika Mayrhofer (2019) ‘Gender (in)equality, disaster and human rights – the CEDAW Committee and General recommendation No. 37’, in Bartolini, G., Cubie, D., Hesselman, M. and Peel, J. (eds.) Yearbook for International Disaster Law, Brill/Nijhoff, 233-257. DOI:10.1163/26662531_00101_012.
Monika Mayrhofer (2019) ‘Barro Blanco and the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) Independent Complaints Mechanism’, Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (EiPro). ISBN 9780191872549.
Monika Mayrhofer (2019) ‘Collecting Statistical Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Characteristics and Expression’, in Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte/journal for human rights, Vol. 13, No. 1, 58-76. ISBN 978-3-7344-0847.
Monika Mayrhofer (2019) ‘Climate Change, Minorities and Mobility’, in Grant, Peter/minority rights group international (ed.) Minority and Indigenous Trends 2019. Focus on climate justice, London, pp. 53-67. ISBN 978-1-912938-15-5.
Monika Mayrhofer (2018) ‘The role of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in the field of equality and non-discrimination’, in: Benedek, Wolfgang et al (eds.) European Yearbook on Human Rights 2018, 573-596. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781780688008.025. (peer-reviewed)
Monika Mayrhofer (2018) ‘Opportunities and Pitfalls of Anti-discrimination Policies in the European External Action Service’, Peace Human Rights Governance, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 51-74. ISSN 2532-649X.
Jane Hofbauer, Beatriz Felipe Pérez, Monika Mayrhofer and Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla (2017) ‘Rethinking the role of development banks in climate finance: Panama’s Barro Blanco CDM project and human rights’, in: Law, Environment & Development Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-19. ISSN: 1746-5893.
Jane Hofbauer, Wolfgang Obergassel, Lauri Peterson, Florian Mersmann, Jeanette Schade and Monika Mayrhofer (2017) ‘Human Rights and the Clean Development Mechanism: Lessons Learned From Three Case Studies’, in: Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 8, Nr. 1, pp. 51-71. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2017.01.03.
Monika Mayrhofer (2017) 'National Human Rights Institutions and Their Monitoring Function', in: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2017, 223-236. ISBN 978-3-7083-1166-1.