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 and Amanda Bisong show that there is a mismatch between social and policy attitudes to migration in Africa. This is an active obstacle to development through migration.
Report on the outcomes of the symposium, taking place at ABI on Sept. 25 with international colleagues and insights from Uganda and Congo.
The European Research Council (ERC) funds a new project on migration in Africa led by Dr Franzisca Zanker. The ABI will receive 1.5 million euros over the next five years.
Franzisca Zanker discusses the humanitarian and legal dimensions of externalizing EU-asylum to African states.
From 26 to 28 June 2024, a workshop funded by the DFG on "Postpandemic Remnants: Long-term Covid-19 Impacts on Migration/Mobility in the Global South" took place at the ABI.
Franzisca Zanker analyses European externalisation efforts and criticises the fact that the political interests of African partner countries are not sufficiently taken into account.
In the virtual roundtable, researchers, editors and librarians discuss perspectives on African(ist) migration research.
For Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, a recent decision to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has thrown up questions about how they will navigate regional mobility in future. Franzisca Zanker comments for The Conversation.
