Anne-Line Rodriguez specialises in the ethnographic study of local interactions in West Africa with the global mobility regime. She is interested in the new formations of subjectivity and practice created in the region in the context of governance of migration. Theoretically, her work is grounded in concepts spanning anthropology, critical migration studies and African studies. Her research draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork.

Her current project is concerned with the inequalities produced by the governance of mobility in urban Senegal. In particular, it investigates recent shifts in livelihood, labour, the moral economy and religious subjectivities in this setting. This research, started at Queen Mary University of London, is generously funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Her previous research examined involuntary return and repatriation, comprising an ethnography of everyday life after an ‘Assisted Voluntary Return’ from North Africa or a deportation from Europe. This work was supported by a fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

Prior to this, her PhD thesis (SOAS), entitled Social Respectability in Dakar at the Time of EU Border Closure: An Ethnography, analysed local perceptions and experiences in the Senegalese capital city of the tightening and externalisation of European migration control.