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Bisong, Dr. Amanda

Portrait von Amanda Bisong
E-Mail:
amanda.bisong [at] gmail.com
Forschungsbereiche:
Migrationspolitik, Freizügigkeitsabkommen, Arbeitsmigration, Sozialschutz, Migrationszusammenarbeit EU/Afrika, Migration und Entwicklung, Migration und Wirtschaft, regionale Integration und Handel
Regionale Schwerpunkte:
Westafrika, African Union Commission, EU – Afrika, Golfstaaten – Afrika
Berufserfahrung:
Seit 2024
Thematic Co-lead, Legal Pathways and Labour Migration, African Non-State Actors Platform on Migration and Development
September 2025 – Juni 2026
Policy leader Fellow, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Italien
Oktober 2025 – Dezember 2026
Fellow, Freiburg Rising Stars Academy, Universität Freiburg
2018 – 2025
Senior policy analyst, European Centre for Development Policy Management, Maastricht, Niederlande
2012 – 2018
GIZ support programme to the ECOWAS Commission, verschiedene Rollen, z.B. Head of West Africa Trade Integration Programme (WATIP).
Ausbildung:
November 2019 – Januar 2025
PhD in Law (with Distinction), Faculty of Law VU Amsterdam, Niederlande
September 2011 – September 2012
Master in International Law and Economics, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Schweiz
Juli 2010 – November 2012
MSc International trade policy and trade law, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Schweden
Oktober 2008 – November 2009
Barrister of Laws (B.L), Nigerian Law School, Lagos Campus, Nigeria
August 2002 – August 2008
Bachelor of Laws (LL. B), Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Nigeria

Bisong, A. 2025. Analysing narratives of free movement of persons in West Africa. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(18), 4598–4620. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2544080 

Bisong, A. 2025. Rethinking externalization of migration governance in Europe - Africa relations: Future research directions in a changing geopolitical landscape. International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918325140975 

Panizzon, M. und Bisong, A. 2025. World Trade Organisation. In Elgar consise encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law. Vincent Chetail, Jittawadee Chotinukul and Giulia Raimondo eds. 

Zanker, F. und Bisong, A., 2024. ‘Contested Mobility Norms in Africa: Reconciling Visions, Policies and Practice’. Heinrich Boell Stiftung Report, April. Available at: https://www.boell.de/en/2024/04/11/contested-mobility-norms-africa

Arhin-Sam, K., Bisong, A., Jegen, L., Mounkaila, H. und Zanker, F., 2022. 'The (in)formality of mobility in the ECOWAS region: The paradoxes of free movement', South African Journal of International Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2084452. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsaj20/29/2

Eine vollständige Liste der Publikationen, Podcasts, Webinaren, Blogbeiträgen und mehr ist auf www.amandabisong.org zu finden.

Stocktaking Labour Mobility Between West African Countries and the Gulf: Case Studies of Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Chad (IOM/ JLMP AU, 03/2025 – 07/2025); 

Evaluating the African Union Migration Policy Framework for Africa (MPFA) (05/2023 - 09/2024); 

Analysis on the feasibility of establishing an African Union labour migration and employment authority/ council (GIZ AU, 03/2023 – 07/2023); 

Analysis on the development impacts of labour migration projects – Evidence from selected GIZ and ICMPD projects (GIZ Eschborn, 08/2023 – 10/2023)

Analysis on Diaspora engagement in the European Union Talent Partnerships (EUDiF/ICMPD, 03/2021 – 09/2021); 

März - Juni 2024 Kurzer Besuch, Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italien 

2020 - 2021 Fellow, Young Policy Network on Migration. Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel, Schweiz und dem German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin, Deutschland

2018 - 2019 Swiss Subsaharan Africa Migration (S-SAM) Forschungsprojekt, University of Neuchâtel, Schweiz

2019 Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) Fellow University of Ghana. Junior Fellow, IFG 1 - Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on ‘Migration, Mobility and Forced Displacement’

Juni - Juli 2019 Swiss Subsaharan Africa Migration (S-SAM) Fellowship Austausch, Universität Genf, Schweiz

Juni - Juli 2017 National Center of Competence in Research – The Migration-Mobility Nexus (NCCR - on the move), Gastwissenschaftlerin, Universität Bern, Schweiz