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Anne-Line Rodriguez is a sociocultural anthropologist. Her work has focused on the ethnographic study of local interactions in West Africa with the global mobility regime. This has included analysing the inequalities produced by the governance of mobility in urban Senegal. Her research has also explored migrant life and temporal subjectivities after an Assisted Voluntary Return or a deportation from North Africa and Europe to Senegal. Her PhD thesis in anthropology (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) examined local perceptions and experiences in Dakar of the tightening and externalisation of European migration control. She has held fellowships at the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford), Queen Mary and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa.
In the Global Migration Centre (GMC) at the Geneva Graduate Institute, she is developing new research on mutuality and care among sub-Saharan migrants in the Maghreb. She is the Principal Investigator of the SNSF-funded project Beyond Bare Life: Caring for the Body at Europe’s External Borders.
Selected publications
- Rodriguez, A.-L. 2023. Endurance lost and found: unwanted return and the suspension of time. Geopolitics 29 (4): 1380-1399.
- Rodriguez, A.-L. 2019. European attempts to govern African youths by raising awareness of the risks of migration: ethnography of an encounter. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45 (5): 735-751.
- Rodriguez, A-L. Aug. 2019. Exploring assumptions behind ‘voluntary’ returns from North Africa. RSC Research in Brief 13. Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford.
- Rodriguez, A.-L. 2015. Three stories about living without migration in Dakar: coming to terms with the contradictions of the moral economy. AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute 85 (2): 333-355.