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)
(2024) Contested Mobility Norms in Africa Böll Stiftung (mit 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 (mit Khangelani Moyo).
(2018) Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations, Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution; Abingdon: Routledge
(2017) Moving Beyond Hybridity: The Multi-Scalar Adaptation of Community Policing in Liberia, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 11(2), pp.166-185.
Selected Public Outreach
(2025) A Question of Standard Regulations? Colonial Continuities of Afro-European Visa Regimes and Mobility Partnerships, 17 February 2025, Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik, Megatrends Afrika.
(2024) Outsourcing Asylum to African States? An endeavour destined to fail, June 2024, Externalizing Asylum
(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
