📆 In one of the world's most rapidly urbanising regions, developing the cassava trade is vital for meeting food needs. We are running consultations across the corridor this week to turn intentions into bankable projects. Read about the project 👉 bit.ly/4rDs38T

Good morning New York 🤎 Such a pleasure to be meeting colleagues equally enthusiastic about regional citizenship regimes and discuss this while walking through Manhattan

Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar this Thursday (23.10.25, at 16:15-18:00 EEST)! Session theme: Writing History in the Ancient World Speakers: - Johannes Bach - Jasmin Lukkari Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar

It was such a pleasure to visit #UNU-CRIS @ununiversity.bsky.social yesterday, where I presented insights from fieldwork in Ghana’s borderlands on the impact of the AES-ECOWAS split on free movement. I very much look forward to future collaborations and to seeing you all again in beautiful Brugge!

Yesterday was exciting as I got to visit Brussels School of Governance @bsog.be and discuss free movement between The Gambia and Senegal. Now off to UNU-CRIS @ununiversity.bsky.social to present my preliminary work on cross-border mobility and fragmented regionalism #AES #ECOWAS

💥CFP AAG 2026 - Geography of trade 💥 @geographers.bsky.social AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 17-21, 2026. Me and Lacey Harris-Coble are organising a paper session. Please send proposed titles and abstracts (~250 words) no later than October 15, 2025. anl.geog.ufl.edu/cfp-aag-2026...

Pleased to be discussing my preliminary work on ‘security at the margins: governing mobility in #West #African #borderlands’ at @uni-hamburg.de, where I present insights from fieldwork in Ghana to further unpack the security-mobility nexus in zones of legal informality and limited state authority.

Very exciting about our upcoming talk by Ettore Recchi! Feel free to join us online!

🎉 Our own @whamiltonbyrne.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 John Jackson Prize! Huge congratulations! 🏆 His prizewinning article explores how legal academics shape international investment law through citation analysis and interviews with top arbitrators. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jiel...

New article article by @astajarlner.bsky.social and @sarah-scott-ford.bsky.social in Verfassungsblug, where they examine the Danish Supreme Court´s judgement concerning the non-penalization of refugees. Read it here: verfassungsblog.de/the-end-of-a...

Excited to share a new publication by our PhD fellow Leonora Staerfeldt in the special issue of @recieljournal.bsky.social! It reveals how international law’s temporal blind spots enable illegal e-waste to flow from high- to low-income countries – often disguised as legitimate reuse. Link below ⬇️

For everyone interested in the many dimensions linking immigration, emigration, return, diaspora, refugees & IDPs to development outcomes, check out: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗮: 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 online.ucpress.edu/gp/article-a... #MigrationResearch

New CFP for a special issue of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review on “Citizenship, #statelessness and emerging technologies” - 15 Oct deadline #legalidentity #digitalID www.institutesi.org/news/scr-spe...

Call for Papers - African Studies Review Forum - Democratization and Democratic Erosion in Africa, edited by SRG Sebastian Elischer africanstudies.org/opportunitie...

Welcome! 💥

From the green city of Gainesville to the windy city of Chicago, my US trip is now sadly coming to an end🐊 It has been truly wonderful to meet such brilliant and inspiring #borderland researchers, #African studies scholars, and #socio-legal experts. #Gators #LawAndSociety #Mobility

Excited to be in #Chicago for this year's #LawAndSociety Annual Meeting, where I will be discussing my work on #LegalBorderlands cross-border movement, and mobility infrastructures in West Africa as part of my postdoc research project #REMOBILISE at @mobileucph.bsky.social

Thanks for coming to Gainesville and presenting your work on infrastructure and mobility in West Africa just before the summer break, @amalierw.bsky.social!

After 5 years, I'm happy to be back in #Oxford, visiting St Antony's again. Next stop is Gainesville and the University of Florida @ufgeog.bsky.social before continuing to #Chicago for this year's #LSA

Pleased to be sharing my article which has just been published in Citizenship Studies, where I compararively analyse regional citizenship norms in #ECOWAS and #ASEAN in light of the organisations' claimed turn to people-centered governance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Such a pleasure to listen to Anders Norge Lauridsen defend his PhD thesis and learn about the #Sihanaka of #Madagascar, well beyond my research area. Well done Anders! 💥 www.gu.se/evenemang/di...

"AI could change the game in asylum law" Learn more about our new project building transparent AI to detect bias and promote fairness in asylum case assessments ⬇️

Important development, in line with broader trend of establishing right to dual citizenship through litigation in African states, as discussed by @bronwenmanby.bsky.social globalcit.eu/is-litigatio...

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 We now invite submissions for a special issue on credibility assessments in RSD. Contributors will meet for a workshop in Copenhagen, October 30-31, 2025. Details below. Reach out to the organizers, ‪Asta Jarlner‬ & Maya Hertz, to hear more. mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2025/sp...

Interested in maritime law and (im)mobility? check out the call for papers for our next international workshop 👇

💥 Call for panels 💥 for the Swiss Society for African Studies and the Association for African Studies in Germany joint biennial conference, hosted in Basel, Switzerland, 26-28 August 2026. The call for panels is open until 31 July 2025. africanperspectives.ch

In the beginning of April, I had the pleasure of participating in #CERTIZENS workshop 'Changing ID Systems in West Africa' where I discussed preliminary findings on the interplay between free movement law and cross-border mobility at borderscapes along the Tano River dividing Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

The UF Geography African Networks Lab led by @ojwalther.bsky.social develops innovative ways to model the social structure and spatial patterns of trade and violent networks in Africa anl.geog.ufl.edu

On April 25, from 2.15 pm we will launch our special issue on #Legal #Infrastructures published with the German Law Journal. The launch takes place at MOBILE @mobileucph.bsky.social and online. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We discussed the same type of challenges that can occur when identification processes transform from oral identification to documentary identification to biometric/digital identification, especially also in military junta and hybrid regime contexts at the recent #CERTIZENS workshop in Accra, Ghana.

Two years ago, I defended my PhD on citizenship in #ECOWAS and #ASEAN. I am thrilled to be back at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg to discuss fieldwork insights from my postdoc project #REMOBILISE on how people navigate free movement law #LegalGeography #Borders #Ghana

Today at 6pm was the deadline for the Trump administration to produce any evidence of their claim that freshly-minted SIPA graduate Mahmoud Khalil is deportable. To the day, 1 month ago, on March 9, he was abducted by plain clothes ICE officers at the direct order of the president.

At MOBILE we are now advertising for a new postdoc position in Nordic asylum law and credibility. The position is part of a new 5-year interdisciplinary project on Explainable AI and Credibility in Asylum Law. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Application deadline April 23, 2025

The #Ankobra River, #Ghana

How do you navigate a border that is also a river? #liquidborders #ECOWAS Today I spent time with people who cross through and manage the Elubo-Noé border between #Ghana and #Côted'Ivoire. This border site is particularly interesting due to its geographical character very different to e.g. #Aflao

Off to #Accra for fieldwork at the #Elubo border town, followed by a truly exciting workshop on identification and mobility hosted by #CERTIZENS and the #UniversityofGhana ✈️

Jessica Larsen and I are organizing a workshop in beautiful Copenhagen this coming Fall, come join us! Special issue call for papers: Straits, Canals and Choke Points, September 15-16, 2025 mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2025/ca... Thanks @mobileucph.bsky.social for hosting this project

The observation is not news to anyone, but this is a clear rundown of the human rights records of the #AES military authorities.

Insightful conversation on the future of politics in the Sahel www.csis.org/podcasts/afr...

Should European countries be making strategies and plans for Africa? At least, they can put African researchers centre stage ✍️ @diis.dk researchers Adam Fejerskov, @mikkel-funder.bsky.social & @naujakleist.bsky.social share their experience in our latest blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2177

In this new SI scholars explore legal infrastructures across European, Latin American, and African contexts. The SI is kicked off by @tgammeltoft.bsky.social @whamiltonbyrne.bsky.social and Nora Stappert who provide an excellent and novel conceptualization of legal #infrastructures.

💥 New OA article in the German Law Journal 💥 Based on insights from interviews at the #ECOWAS Commission, I discuss access to free #movement through an infrastructural lens. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In this new OECD report, we mapped the most dangerous roads of NW Africa to highlight how transport infrastructure is a critical element in the competition for political power www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

Excellent insights into (legal) practices of exclusion! 🛃 I am looking forward to continue this discussion in Accra, during the #CERTIZENS workshop taking place on April 7-9. teol.ku.dk/english/dept...

Lovely visit to the University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies at #Legon today 💛

"People will always move. Right next to the main building you see all the 'beats'. They continue all the way to Burkina Faso and further. Our government knows this and even has agents to help manage them instead of preventing us from moving where we always have moved" #Mobility #ECOWAS #Borders