Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez
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Anne-Line Rodriguez is a Visiting Fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at LSE and an SNSF Researcher at the Global Migration Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute.
She specialises in the ethnographic study of local interactions with the global mobility regime in West and North Africa. She is interested in the new formations of subjectivity and practice created in these regions in the context of the governance of migration. Her work is grounded in concepts spanning anthropology, critical migration studies and African studies, and draws on ethnographic fieldwork.
Her research has explored the inequalities produced by the governance of mobility in urban Senegal, including recent shifts in livelihood and the moral economy. Her work has also examined migrant life and temporal subjectivities after an Assisted Voluntary Return or a deportation from North Africa and Europe to Senegal. Prior to this, her PhD thesis in anthropology (SOAS) analysed local perceptions and experiences in Dakar of the tightening and externalisation of European migration control. She has held fellowships at LSE, Queen Mary and the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
She is the Principal Investigator of an SNSF-funded project on mutuality and care among sub-Saharan migrants in the Maghreb at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Expertise
Ethnography of West Africa; governance of migration; temporality; social becoming; economic inclusion; livelihood; moral economy.
Publications
Endurance lost and found: unwanted return and the suspension of time
Exploring assumptions behind ‘voluntary’ returns from North Africa