Come to Lecture Hall 380 on October 13 at 11:15 am for an exciting lecture as part of the EuMIGS Online Lecture Series, or join us  online!

This lecture will focus on the colonial continuities embedded in European migration governance and their impact on mobility in Africa. Drawing on the personal experience of our guest speaker as a migrant and the collective knowledge produced with returnees and families of missing migrants through the Missing Voices (REER) project, he will discuss how border externalization policies such as Frontex operations and bilateral agreements shape everyday life in Senegal and West Africa. Situating these dynamics within postcolonial and decolonial critiques of migration studies, he will highlight how Eurocentric frameworks often marginalize African perspectives while legitimizing restrictive migration regimes. The lecture will advocate for recentring subaltern voices and lived experiences, both in academic debates and policy-making, in order to challenge methodological nationalism and promote epistemic justice in migration research.

Guest speaker: Ibrahima Konaté