Laura is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Project Doing Digital Identities (DigID) with a case study on Sierra Leone. A trained anthropologist, her prior research examined the everyday externalization of asylum to Niger.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2117 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-0745 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-lambert-09691a2b7/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/lejlambert |
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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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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Leuphana University
University, Lueneburg, Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher -
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
University, Lüneburg, Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher -
Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut
Other, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Senior Researcher -
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Research Institute, Halle (Saale), Germany
PhD Student
Research
Contested promises. Migrants’ material politics vis-à-vis the humanitarian border in Niger
| Authors | Laura Lambert |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Science as Culture | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Changing the administration from within: criticism and compliance by junior bureaucrats in Niger's Refugee Directorate
| Authors | Laura Lambert |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Law in Context | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Between morality and the law: negotiating protection for queer asylum seekers in Niger’s asylum administration
| Authors | Laura Lambert |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Resettlement as a temporal border: infrastructural promises and future-making among migrants and officials in Niger
| Authors | Laura Lambert |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Contested future-making in containment: temporalities, infrastructures and agency
| Authors | Tabea Scharrer, Laura Lambert, Stefan Millar, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |