Lectures and conference contributions

20. September 2025 - Empathy as a compass? On the way to thick solidarity. Conference Bringing diversity to practice (Tagung Vielfalt in die Tat Umsetzen). Institute for Church and Society, Dortmund, Germany.

11. February 2025 - Migration Policy and Human Trafficking: Taking Stock of Influences and Intersections. Conference against Human Trafficking. Catholic Academy, Berlin, Germany.

4. December 2023 - Transnational Mobility and Externalisation of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance. Together with Emilio Gomez-Ciriano, Tanja Kleibl, Nikos Xypolitas, Leila Bari Bari and Victoria Antkowiak. Human Rights Week THWS, Würzburg, Germany.

21. October 2023 - (Dis)placing Social Work: From ‚refugee crisis‘ to the crisis of a nationally-bound social work?. ERIS Konference. THWS, Würzburg, Germany

19. July 2023 - Recognizing ‘victims‘: trans/national journeys of social work expertise along the West African Route to Europe. Problematizing Migration: Mobility and Vulnerabilization in the Age of Abandonment and Inequalities. University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.

5. December 2022  - Fleeing (across) Borders: War, EU Migration Regime and Human Rights. Together with Marta Pietrusińska & Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz. Human Rights Week THWS, Würzburg, Germany

29. September 2022 - Whole of route Approach in der Sozialen Arbeit? Hegemoniale Kontinuitäten mit (k)einem Raum für epistemischen Ungehorsam. Panel „Dekoloniale Fluchtmigrationsforschung: Machtkritische und intersektionale Perspektiven auf Flucht und Migration“ together with Robel Afeworki Abay & Isabelle Ihring. 4. Konferenz der Netzwerk Fluchtforschung. Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

19. September 2022 - Social Work expertise on categorization of mobile people in Nigeria: externalization, decolonization, neither, both? De-centering and Contesting Externalisation in West Africa and Beyond, Hybrid workshop, SOAS, University of London, London & online, United Kingdom

9. June 2022 - Refugees, Migrants, Neighbors: Categorization of mobile people from Ukraine in the Czech Republic and the implications for (transnational) Social Work. Sociology – Social Work and Social Welfare – Regulation of Social Problems. Lviv (online), Ukraine

25. May 2022 - Kein Krieg in der Ukraine: Soziale Arbeit auf der Suche nach Positiven Frieden. Zusammen mit Olena Havrysh & Ronald Lutz. Online Lecture Series Nachdenken über Krieg und Frieden. Hochschule Hannover, Hannover (online), Germany

29. April 2022 - Kein Krieg in der Ukraine – keine Menschenrechte ohne Frieden! Soziale Arbeit angesichts von Krieg, Krise und Katastrophe. Panel discussion with Christin Sonnenberg, Olena Havrysch, Tanja Kleibl, Andrea Schmelz, Christine Rehklau, Claudia Lohrenscheidt. Annual conference of the German Association of Social Work DGSA (online)

15. September 2021 - Social Work education and research in the context of postcolonial perspectives. Panel „Friend or Foe? Internationalization and Decolonization Processes in Social Work” together with Sandra Holtgreve & Ndangwa Noyoo. Artl Symposium. St.Pölten (online), Austria

18. June 2021 - Beyond the single-story of ‘migration management:’ Creating room for ‘epistemic disobedience’ in engaging with migration in social work. Together with Anna-Lisa Klages & Robel Afeworki Abay. “Border Thinking” 21. Migration conference. Klagenfurt (online), Austria

16.6.2021 Towards a situated ethics of social work research with migrants: Politics, technology and the duty of care. Symposium „Ethical considerations for Social Work education and research in Africa: COVID-19, white privilege, structural inequalities“ together with Franziska Neureither, Anna-Lisa Klages & Tanja Kleibl. EASSW Annual Conference. Tallinn (online), Estonia

International Social Work

Transnational Social Work

Social work in the field of mobility and (forced) migration

Diversity and anti-discrimination in social work

Religion and spirituality in social work

Daňková, Petra (2025) Trans:nationales Wissen in der Sozialen Arbeit: Zu ecologies of expertise im Kontext der Externalisierung der EU-Migrationskontrolle. Soziale Arbeit. 74(3), 82-91

Abay Afeworki, Robel, Daňková, Petra, Kleibl, Tanja & Xypolitas, Nikos (2024). Social Work’s Entanglements in Externalization of EU Migration Regimes. In Krause, Ulrike & Fröhlich, Christiane (Eds.), Externalizing Asylum: A compendium of scientific knowledge. externalizingasylum.info/social-works-entanglements-in-externalization-of-eu-migration-regimes/

Abay Afeworki, Robel, Daňková, Petra, Kleibl, Tanja & Xypolitas, Nikos (2024). Verstrickungen Sozialer Arbeit in die Externalisierung der EU-Migrationsregime. In Krause, Ulrike & Fröhlich, Christiane (Hrgs.), Externalisierung von Asyl: Ein Kompendium wissenschaftlicher Erkentnisse. externalizingasylum.info/de/verstrickungen-sozialer-arbeit-in-die-externalisierung-der-eu-migrationsregime/

Daňková, Petra, Abay Afeworki, Robel, Xypolitas, Nikos, & Kleibl, Tanja (2024). Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance. Lexington Press.

Daňková, Petra (2024). Working Categories: Categorization dilemmas at the intersection of Social Work and mobility in Nigeria. In Daňková, Petra, Abay Afeworki, Robel, Xypolitas, Nikos, & Kleibl, Tanja (Eds.), Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance. Lexington Press.

Daňková, Petra, Abay Afeworki, Robel, Xypolitas, Nikos, & Kleibl, Tanja (2024). Introduction. In Daňková, Petra, Abay Afeworki, Robel, Xypolitas, Nikos, & Kleibl, Tanja (Eds.), Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance. Lexington Press.

Daňková, Petra (2023). Thick solidarity (be)leben: Intersektionale Perspektiven zu Menschenrechten und Antidiskriminierung an Hochschulen. Der Würzburger Weg: 10 Jahre Menschenrechtsperspektive an der THWS Perspektiven und Diskurse. THWS

Munck, Ronaldo, Kleibl, Tanja, de Carmo, Maria & Daňková, Petra. (2022). Migration and Social Transformation: Engaged Perspectives. Machdohnil Ltd.

Munck, Ronaldo, Kleibl, Tanja, de Carmo, Maria & Daňková, Petra. (2022). Preface. In Munck, Ronaldo, Kleibl, Tanja, de Carmo, Maria & Daňková, Petra Migration and Social Transformation: Engaged Perspectives (pp xviii – xxvi). Machdohnil Ltd.

Daňková, Petra (2021). International Social Workers with Refugees: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Professional Identity and Required Skills. In Katharina Heilmann & Ralf Roßkopf (Eds.), International Social Work and Forced Migration: Developments in African, Arab and European Countries (pp 247 – 256). Barbara Budrich Verlag.

Daňková, Petra (2019). Die Macht der (nicht mehr) Ohnmächtigen. Lebendige Seelsorge. 2019(3). Verlag Echter.

Daňková, Petra (2019). Weibliche Genitalverstümmelung- globale und alltägliche Realität. Feinschwarz (6.2.2019)

Daňková, Petra (2018). Review of Patrick Kingsley, „The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First- Century

Refugee Crisis“. Social Work and Christianity. 45(3), 129 -130

Daňková, Petra & Giner, Clotilde (2011). Technology in aid of learning for isolated refugees. Forced Migration Review 38, 11-12

Researching and teaching at the intersection of mobility/migration/flight and Social Work, academic work informed by 10+ years of international experience as social worker and NGO manager, passionate about transnational social work, transdisciplinary inquiry and cross-polination of ideas and practices.