Memberships:
Co-founder of AEGIS Collaborative Research Group African Migration, Mobility and Displacement (AMMODI)
Member of Association for African Studies in Germany
Member of DFG-Network Migration and Im/Mobility in the Global South during a Global Pandemic
Member of German Political Science Association (GPSA)
Member of German Network for Forced Migration Studies
Member of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM)
Miscellanous:
Board Member German Network for Forced Migration Studies (Equal Opportunities Officer)
Co-Editor Reviews Section Journal of Refugee Studies
Projects:
Pandemic (Im)mobility: COVID-19 and Migrant Communities in the Global South
Displacement in Africa: The Politics and Stakeholders of Migration Governance
The Political Economy of West African Migration Governance (WAMiG)
MIASA IFG1: The role of non-state actors in transnational and regional migration governance
Selected Publications:
(2023) A typology of resistance: the ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa, Territory, Politics, Governance, online first: 27 April 2023.
(2022) Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia, Security Dialogue, 53 (5), pp 475- 493 (with Judith Altrogge).
(2022) The (in)formality of mobility in the ECOWAS region: The paradoxes of free movement, South African Journal of International Affairs, 29 (2), pp. 187-205 (with Kwaku Arhin-Sam, Amanda Bisong, Leonie Jegen and Harouna Mounkaila)
(2022) No hope for the ‘foreigners’: The conflation of refugees and migrants in South Africa, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 20 (2) pp.253-265 (with Khangelani Moyo).
(2018) Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations, Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution; Abingdon: Routledge
Full list of publications (Last updated December 2023)
Selected Public Outreach
(2023) Tunisia: President's offensive statements targeted black migrants - with widespread fallout, March 2023, The Conversation (with Nermin Abbasi) (available in French)
(2022) Free movement in West Africa: the culture of mobility still matters despite challenges, August 2022, The Conversation (with Amanda Bisong and Leonie Jegen)
(2022) Plans for offshoring refugee protection undermine human dignity, African political interests, and international norms, February 2022, Migration Control
(2021) “Nowhere to be found”: Three Decades of UNHCR in South Africa, March 2021, Völkerrechtsblog
(2020) How to improve the migration cooperation between the EU and Africa?, April 2020, MEDAM
(2020) South Africa’s xenophobic agenda is impeding its coronavirus response, April 2020, African Arguments (with Khangelani Moyo)
(2020) The tiny African country making a big case against Myanmar, February 2020, The Lowy Institute (with Antje Missbach)