Amanda Bisong works on migration and mobility, regional economic integration, trade, and African Union-European Union relations. She has a background in Law, with a PhD (Cum Laude) from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and master’s degrees in International Law and Economics (World Trade Institute University of Bern, Switzerland) and International Trade Policy and Trade Law (Lund University, Sweden).
She has over 14 years of policy implementation and research experience in international law, development, migration, and trade. She has worked with African political representatives at the national, regional, and continental
levels. She has also liaised with the European Union Commission and partners and engaged in policy discussions in Brussels.
Her research areas include public law, political economy, and migration. Her research focus lies on migration governance and the interplay between regional and national commitments, as well as on the role of external stakeholders on influencing migration policies in West African States. She has written several academic articles and op-eds on free movement policies in Africa, linking the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and labour mobility with the AU free movement protocol.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 763 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2614-522X |
| https://nl.linkedin.com/in/amanda-bisong-98b27532 | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/BusaSays |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amanda_Bisong |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
Methods
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Either/Mixed
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
Roles
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European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
Research Institute, Maastricht, Netherlands
Policy Officer
Research
Return, Precarity and Vulnerability in West Africa: Evidence from Nigeria
| Authors | Amanda Bisong |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Migration in West Africa | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The (in)formality of mobility in the ECOWAS region: The paradoxes of free movement
| Authors | Kwaku Arhin-Sam, Amanda Bisong, Leonie Jegen, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | South African Journal of International Affairs | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Invented, invited and instrumentalised spaces: conceptualising non-state actor engagement in regional migration governance in West Africa
| Authors | Amanda Bisong |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
The ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol and Diversity of Experiences of Different Categories of Migrants: A Qualitative Study
| Authors | Thomas Yeboah, Leander Kandilige, Amanda Bisong, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 |
Migration Partnership Framework and the Externalization of European Union’s (EU) Migration Policy in West Africa: The Case of Mali and Niger
| Authors | Amanda Bisong |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Regional Integration and Migration Governance in the Global South | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Trans-regional institutional cooperation as multilevel governance: ECOWAS migration policy and the EU
| Authors | Amanda Bisong |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
Migration Partnerships and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships: The Nigeria-Switzerland Migration Partnership
| Authors | Amanda Bisong |
| Year | 2015 |
| Book Title | The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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