Dr. Christiane Fröhlich is Mercator-IPC-Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center of Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at Hamburg University, Germany. Her research focuses on reasons for migration, with a particular focus on environmental drivers. She has done extensive ethnographic field research on the impact of a prolonged and climate change-related drought period in Syria which immediately preceded the Syrian war. Moreover, she inquires into the role of the Global North for current migration movements from the Global South from a Postcolonial Perspective. She holds a PhD from the Center for Conflict Studies at Marburg University, a Master in Peace Research and Security Policy from Hamburg University and an M.A. in English Literature, History and Psychology from Hamburg and Warwick Universities.