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Ida Marie Savio Vammen

Senior Researcher
Migration and global order
Bio

Primary research areas

Ida Marie Savio Vammen’s research focuses on the multi-scalar politics of mobility that shape West Africa migration today. She explores how these policies influence the everyday lives and hopes of migrants and their families as well as the discrimination and restricted mobility they face.

Current research

In her research Ida Marie Savio Vammen explores the local effects of different EU driven border governance policies and interventions in West Africa that aims to put a hold on unwanted migration to Europe. She sheds new light on European funded and driven information campaigns in Senegal and explore how local populations react to and contest their messages. She is particularly interested in how emotions are used to change potential migrants hopes and behaviour and how this softer side of European migration governance intersects with former colonial mobility policies in Africa.
Concurrently she also explores how West African migrants use information along the increasingly dangerous routes to Europe. What effects do information campaigns and humanitarian interventions have on migrants’ ways of navigating along the challenging borderlands and their own risk reduction strategies. Furthermore, she continues to follow and write about the lives and mobility of Senegalese migrants in Argentina, that she came to know during the fieldwork for her PhD. dissertation: The Madness of Migration: An Ethnographic Account of Senegalese Migrants’ Mobility and Lives in Buenos Aires (2017).

Projects

Ida Marie Savio Vammen is part of the collaborative research program: Borderwork - Migrants, Brokers and European Border Governance in West Africa. Focusing on West Africa this research project examines the human, social and political consequences of Europe’s border externalization.
The project asserts that the expanded borders create social and political spaces that may cause suffering but also are worlds where new actors and new opportunities arise. Based on three ethnographic fieldworks in West Africa – Senegal, Mali and Niger – the project examines the ongoing struggle over mobility.

From fall 2020 Ida Marie Savio Vammen will also be part of the research program: EU Migration Management in Africa and the Middle East (EFFEXT). A multi-disciplinary team of migration scholars from Norway, the UK and Denmark will examine the effects of the European Union’s external migration management policies from the perspective of six major countries of origin, transit and destination in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa.