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Lambert, Laura M.A.
01/2018-2022 | “Everyday Externalization. The Transformations of Individual Asylum in Niger”, PhD in Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
08/2013-12/2013 | Study Visit in the Sociology Department, New School for Social Research, New York, USA |
10/2012-07/2017 | M.A. Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
09/2010-01/2011 | Study Visit in the Sociology Department, Université Lille I – Sciences et Technologies, France |
10/2008-09/2012 | B.A. Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
07/2022- | Senior Researcher, Interim Head of Research Cluster Patterns of (Forced) Migration, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute |
02/2022- | Fellow, Law and Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
12/2020-09/2021 | Legal Expertise: Refugee Recognition and Protection in Niger, ERC Research Project „RefMig – Refugees are Migrants. Refugee Mobility, Recognition and Rights“ (PI: Prof. Cathryn Costello) |
03/2020-03/2021 | University Teaching Certificate, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. |
10/2020-03/2021 | M.A. Seminar “We Didn’t Cross the Border, but the Border Crossed Us” – Introduction to Critical Migration Studies. M.A. Cultural Studies, Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organization, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany. |
11/2017-01/2022 | Doctoral Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) |
08/2017-11/2017 | Research Contract: State of the Art on the University Access and Higher Education of Refugees, PI: Prof. Julia von Blumenthal, Research Project “Flucht: Forschung und Transfer” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrueck, and the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), in Cooperation with the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration research (BIM), Humboldt University Berlin. |
Memberships
Coordinator of the West Africa Working Group, migration-control.info (together with Leonie Jegen, Hassan Ould Moctar, Moctar Dan Yaye)
European Association for Social Anthropology (EASA)
Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD)
Working Group Political and Legal Anthropology, German Anthropological Association (DGSKA)
Network on Science and Technology Studies in Migration Research (STS-MIGTEC)
Network Critical Migration and Border Studies (Kritnet)
Working Group Africa, Netzwerk Fluchtforschung
Study Group on Political Ethnography, Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for European Ethnology
Member of the Department "Integration, Social Networks and Cultural Lifestyles at the Berlin Institute for Integration und Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University Berlin
Selected Public Outreach
(2019) The Mediterranean and the Sahara: deaths in the desert. Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. (D, EN)
(2019) Niger. Country Report. Migration-control.info. (D, EN, FR)
(2018) Studium für Geflüchtete: Aufgaben für Hochschulen und Politik. Flucht 08b. Osnabrück; Bonn: Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien; Internationales Konversionszentrum Bonn (with Steffen Beigang, Julia von Blumenthal).
Selected Publications
(2022) "Changing the Administration from Within. Criticism and Compliance by Junior Bureaucrats in Niger's Refugee Directorate. International Journal of Law in Context: 1-14
(2022) Externalisierungspolitik als "travelling model": die Rolle lokaler Praktiken und Normen beim Ausbau des Asylverfahrens im Niger. In: Valeria Hänsel, Karl Heyer, and Matthias Schmidt-Sembdner (eds.). Von Moria bis Hanau: Brutalisierung und Widerstand Grenzregime IV. Berlin; Hamburg: Assoziation A, pp. 220–237.
(2021) Extraterritorial asylum processing: the Libya-Niger emergency transit mechanism. Forced Migration Review 68: 18–21. (EN, FR)
(2020) Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats' perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection. Anthropologie et Développement 51: 85–101.
(2019) Asyl im Niger: Politische Rolle und lokale Adaptionen des Flüchtlingsschutzes. In: Reinhard Johler and Jan Lange (eds.): Konfliktfeld Fluchtmigration: historische und ethnographische Perspektiven. Kultur und soziale Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 191–205.
(2019) Studium gestattet? Die symbolische Herrschaft des Aufenthaltsstatus und des Asylverfahrens beim Hochschulzugang von Geflüchteten. In: Emre Arslan and Kemal Bozay (eds.): Symbolische Ordnung und Flüchtlingsbewegungen in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 347–365.
(2018) Logistics under construction: mobility and standstill in the Berlin-Brandenburg airport region. Berliner Blätter 78, pp. 27–55. (with Franziska Baum, Patrick DeDauw, Carmen Grimm, Žiga Podgornik-Jakil, Fabian Stark, Mira Wallis)
(2018) Flucht und Bildung: Hochschulen. Flucht 08b. Osnabrück; Bonn: Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien; Internationales Konversionszentrum Bonn (with Julia von Blumenthal, Steffen Beigang).
(2017) Pionierinnen der Willkommensgesellschaft: Strukturen und Motive des Engagements für Geflüchtete. Forschungsbericht: Solidarität im Wandel. Berlin: Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), pp. 103–119 (with Ulrike Hamann, Serhat Karakayali, Leif Jannis Höfler, Leoni Meyer).
(2015) Die Politik des O-Platzes: (un-)sichtbare Kämpfe einer Geflüchtetenbewegung. Movements 1(2): 1–23 (with Holger Wilcke).