Jill Alpes is a legal anthropologist working on migration from the perspectives of aspiring and deported migrants in the Global South. Based at the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University, her current project looks at the work of lawyers and activists in producing and submitting evidence on pushbacks to the European Court of Human Rights. Jill is the author of "Abroad at any cost: Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa" and has published widely in the Journal of Refugee Studies,...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Human Rights Centre

    Research Institute, Ghent, Belgium
    Senior Researcher

  • Ghent University

    University, Ghent, Belgium
    Senior Researcher

  • University of Utrecht

    University, Utrecht, Netherlands
    Researcher

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Other, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Post-doctoral Researcher

  • Centre for International Relations

    Other, Paris, France
    Visiting Fellow

  • Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

    Other, Berlin, Germany
    Post- doctoral Fellow

  • Danish Institute for International Studies

    Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Visiting Fellow

Research

The Politics of Legal Facts: The Erasure of Pushback Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes, Grażyna Baranowska
Year 2024
Journal Name Law & Social Inquiry
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1 Journal Article

Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes, Maybritt Jill Alpes, Kwamou Eva Feukeu, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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2 Journal Article

What is a legitimate mobility manager? Juxtaposing migration brokers with the EU

Authors L. Åkesson, J. Alpes
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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3 Journal Article

“Non-admitted”: Migration-Related Detention of Forcibly Returned Citizens in Cameroon

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2018
Book Title After Deportation
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4 Book Chapter

Unravelling the legal consciousness of deportation policies through women’s bushfalling narratives in Anglophone Cameroon 1

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2018
Book Title Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration
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5 Book Chapter

Papers That Work: Migration Brokers, State/Market Boundaries, and the Place of Law

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2017
Journal Name PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
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6 Journal Article

Why aspiring migrants trust migration brokers: the moral economy of departure in Anglophone Cameroon

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2017
Journal Name Africa
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7 Journal Article

Marriage at the Embassy: Securing the EurAfrican Border in Cameroon

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2017
Book Title EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management
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8 Book Chapter

Bad luck, bad behaviour and laziness: an ethnographic outlook on the causes of deportations in Anglophone Cameroon

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2017
Journal Name MONDI MIGRANTI
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9 Journal Article

Les dynamiques sociologiques entre contrôle des migrations et protection sociale : femmes migrantes sans papiers en quête d’hébergement à Paris

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2017
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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10 Journal Article

Social protection and migration control: The case of migrant care workers and Parisian welfare hotels

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2015
Journal Name Transnational Social Review
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11 Journal Article

Dealing with Law in Migration Control: The Powers of Street-level Bureaucrats at French Consulates

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes, Alexis Spire
Year 2014
Journal Name Social & Legal Studies
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12 Journal Article

Female spouses at the doors of fortress Europe

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2014
Journal Name Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies
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13 Journal Article

Imagining a future in ‘bush’: migration aspirations at times of crisis in Anglophone Cameroon

Year 2013
Journal Name Identities
Citations (WoS) 11
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14 Journal Article

Payer pour émigrer : les intermédiaires de la migration au Cameroun

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2013
Journal Name Autrepart
15 Journal Article

Bushfalling at All Cost: The Economy of Migratory Knowledge in Anglophone Cameroon

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2012
Journal Name African Diaspora
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16 Journal Article

Reviews

Year 2008
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
17 Journal Article

The Congress and the INA Trials, 1945–50

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2007
Journal Name Studies in History
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18 Journal Article

Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes
Year 2016
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19 Journal Article

Airport Casualties: Non-Admission and Return Risks at Times of Internalized/Externalized Border Controls

Authors Maybritt Alpes
Year 2015
Journal Name Social Sciences
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20 Journal Article

Transnational Households: Migrants and Care, at Home and Abroad

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes, Sarah van Walsum
Book Title Migration and Care Labour
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21 Book Chapter

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