Zanker Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2024

The Political Lives of Migrants: Perspectives from Africa

Refugees and other migrants continue to arrive in new places all across the world. Their reception, long-term prospects and lives in their new homes remains one of the most pressing socio-political issues of our times. What about the migrant in all of this? How do they see their life, role and political agency? Migration research has thus far under-conceptualised and under-researched political migrant agency, especially from a Global South perspective and in interaction with states and non-state actors. PolMig aims to redress this gap and combine it with a commitment to tackle global inequalities in knowledge production. Focusing on Africa, PolMig considers how migrants define political…

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