The Political Lives of Migrants: Perspectives from Africa (PolMig), funded by the European Research Council (ERC), 2024-2029
Pandemic (Im)mobility: COVID-19 and Migrant Communities in the Global South, funded by Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg, 2021
Zwangsmigration in Afrika: Interessenvertretung und Politische Herausforderungen, funded by Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung, 2019-2022
The Political Economy of West African Migration Governance – Die Politische Ökonomie der Westafrikanischen Migrationsgovernance, as part of Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration (MEDAM), funded by the Stiftung Mercator, 2019
MIASA IFG1: Die Rolle nichtstaatlicher Akteure in der Governance transnationaler und regionaler Migration, funded by MIASA, 2019
Co-founder of AEGIS Collaborative Research Group African Migration, Mobility and Displacement (AMMODI)
Board Member German Network for Forced Migration Studies (Equal Opportunities Officer)
Co-Editor Reviews Section Journal of Refugee Studies
Editorial Board Journal of Ethnic and Minority Studies
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)
(2026): ’Uganda likes refugees too much’: domestic narratives on refugee protection, Journal of Refugee Studies, online first (with Ronald Kalyango Sebba).
(2024) Contested Mobility Norms in Africa Böll Stiftung (with Amanda Bisong)
(2023) A typology of resistance: the ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa, Territory, Politics, Governance, online first.
(2022) Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia, Security Dialogue, 53 (5), pp 475- 493 (mit Judith Altrogge).
(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
Selected Public Outreach
(2026) The limits of counting: What Europe misses about African mobility, 19 February 2026, Migration Policy Centre Blog (with Amanda Bisong).
(2025) A Question of Standard Regulations? Colonial Continuities of Afro-European Visa Regimes and Mobility Partnerships, 17 February 2025, Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik, Megatrends Afrika.
(2022) Free movement in West Africa: the culture of mobility still matters despite challenges, August 2022, The Conversation (with Amanda Bisong and Leonie Jegen)
(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
