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Hans Lucht

Head of unit, Senior researcher
Migration and global order
Bio

Primary research areas

Hans Lucht’s research focuses on undocumented migration from Africa to Europe via North Africa. Lucht’s core interests include migrant sending communities in West Africa; West African connection men and the organization of clandestine routes to Europe; high-risk migration on the Mediterranean Sea and in the Sahara Desert; migrant lives in post-Gaddafi Libya; migration related deaths and the ramifications in Europe and in Africa; undocumented migrant lives in Southern Europe; European migration policies; global, social and existential anthropology. Hans Lucht’s work is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, Niger, Libya, Italy, and Greece.

Current research

Hans Lucht is heading the research project, ‘Borderwork - An Ethnographic Study of Migrants, Brokers and European Border Governance in West Africa’ (2018–2021). Focusing on West Africa, this project explores competing notions of borderwork in the expanded EU-African borderlands in a time when safe and legal mobility is limited and human, social, and political conditions of migrants are severely challenged.