Sandra Morgenstern is a postdoctoral researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the chair of Migration and Integration at the University of Mannheim and part of the DeZIM-research community.

She has a Ph.D. from the University of Konstanz where and holds BA and MA degrees from Pompeu Fabra Barcelona and the University of Mannheim. Previously, she was a visiting researcher at the German Center for Migration and Integration research (DeZIM), COMPAS Oxford, University of California LA (UCLA), and the University of Bergen (UiB).

Her research is situated in Political Economy and focuses on two key societal issues: international migration and diversity polarization/integration.

She is interested in migration and diversity policies, migration decision-making, the role of gender and gender inequalities in migration, the exploitation of (labour) migration intentions (keywords: smuggling and human trafficking), discrimination, and the multifaceted nature of diversity in societies.