Leonie is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), UvA. Her doctoral research focuses on the making of Senegalese migrant smuggling governance in the context of externalized EU-ropean migration control. Prior to starting her PhD Leonie has worked as a project researcher on migration governance in West Africa at the University of Freiburg and the Free University of Brussels/UNU-Cris. As part of this work she conducted research in Ghana, Niger, and Senegal. She...
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3517 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-230X |
| https://twitter.com/@Le0nieFelicitas | |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Amsterdam
University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD Student
Research
‘Migratising’ mobility: Coloniality of knowledge and externally funded migration capacity building projects in Niger
| Authors | Leonie Felicitas Jegen |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Geoforum |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
West African interests in (EU) migration policy. Balancing domestic priorities with external incentives
| Authors | Ilke Adam, Florian Trauner, Leonie Jegen, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
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 |