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Melina Tretmans

Research Associate at the Professorship for International Institutions and Peace Processes

¿´Æ¬Èí¼þ Frankfurt
FB03: Faculty of Social Sciences

Institute of Political Science
Campus Westend – PEG-Gebäude
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt a. M.
Hauspostfach 28
Room: 3.G 128
Phone: +49-(0)69/798-36681
tretmans@soz.uni-frankfurt.de


Vita

Melina Tretmans is a PhD researcher at the Chair of International Institutions and Peace Processes. She did her Bachelor in Arabic and Communication in Maastricht, with a stay abroad at the University of Jordan in Amman and an internship at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Oman. Furthermore, she completed an Erasmus+ voluntary service in Rabat (Morocco) and an internship at the Dutch NGO New Dutch Connections. She holds a Master's degree in Conflict and Development from Ghent University. From 2022 until 2023 she was a research fellow at the Chair of Global Governance at Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen).

Within the DFG research group transMID (Transnational Mobility and Institutional Dynamics), Melina Tretmans works as a researcher in the subproject “International Organisations: Norm Setting and Norm Implementation for the Protection of Forced Migrants". In this project, she investigates gender and disability norms in IOM and UNHCR.

Research interests

  • International Organizations
  • Non-state actors
  • Migration
  • Gender and intersectionality

Exams and final theses

I am currently unable to take on primary supervision. Secondary supervision of bachelor’s theses is possible, provided they are completed by March 2026 at the latest.

Ongoing projects

Dissertation: “The Role of non-State Actors from the Global South in the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees" (working title)

Conference presentations:

  • Kortendiek, N. & Tretmans, M. (2025, August 26-29). â€œSooner or faster"? How IOM and UNHCR change policy norms for the protection of forced migrants. ECPR General Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Kortendiek, N. & Tretmans, M. (2025, March 2-5). â€œSooner or faster"? How IOM and UNHCR change policy norms for the protection of forced migrants. ISA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Tretmans, M. (2025, March 2-5). Non-state actors' contestation of the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees. ISA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Tretmans, M. (2024, June 13). Synergies and Challenges: Implementing the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees – The IOM, UNHCR, and non-state actors. Special Event at the Center for Global Studies, Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco.
  • Tretmans, M. (2024, March 20-22). All affected, all involved? The Role of Non-State Actors from the Global South in the GCM and the GCR. DVPW Early Career Tagung Internationale Beziehungen, Tutzing, Germany.