Rainer Bauböck

Rainer Bauböck (born 15 March 1953 in Ried im Innkreis) is an Austrian sociologist, political scientist and migration researcher. Bauböck is a former Chair in Social and Political theory at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, part time professor in the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and Chair of the Commission for Migration and Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

He has been a corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2013. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Malmö in 2013. He is currently a part time professor in the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and chair of the Commission for Migration and Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

Bauböck research focuses on normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship, European integration, migration, nationalism and minority rights.

Selected publications

Bauböck, R. (ed.), Debating European Citizenship, Springer, 2018 Bauböck, R. (ed.), Debating Transformations of National Citizenship, Springer, 2018 Democratic inclusion : Rainer Bauböck in dialogue, Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 Shachar, A., Bauböck, R., Bloemraad, I., Vink, M. P. (eds.), The Oxford handbook of citizenship, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017 Transnational Citizenship. Membership and Rights in International Migration, Aldershot : Edward Elgar, 1994