The ABI welcomes two new ALMA fellows, Onike Shorunkeh-Sawyerr and Sophia Gessner.
In this new video, Anas Ansar gives an insight into his monography “Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile“ and the research process behind it.
From November 27-28, the PolMig project held a workshop to explore how participatory research methods such as theater workshops can be used (especially in Africa).
With Franzisca Zanker, the ABI returns to the Rat für Migration, a nationwide association of researchers from various disciplines who conduct research on issues related to migration and integration.
Franzisca Zanker and Dina Wahba shed light on Egypt's program for the voluntary return of Sudanese refugees for The Conversation. Their conclusion: Given the political climate in Egypt, the voluntary nature of the initiative is questionable.
ABI staff member Franzisca Zanker and Ronald Kalyango Sebba analyze the migration agreement between Uganda and the US for The Conversation.
Anas Ansar's first monograph, “Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia,” has been published in the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies series with De Gruyter.
On July 9–10, 2025, the PolMig Team at the ABI hosted an authors’ workshop for the special issue "Categorizing People on the Move in Africa," edited by Rose Jaji and Franzisca Zanker, to be published in Comparative Migration Studies.
The ABI welcomes Sophia Stille, Jamila Hamidu and Edwin Mutyenyoka as new staff members in the PolMig project!
Franzisca Zanker argues in the Public Anthropologist that while the pressure to comply with the EU regarding migration-related issues is high due to asymmetric power balances, African states developed subtle and often implicit ways of responding.
