This MSCA Fellowship was hosted at Uppsala University, at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University and at the interdisciplinary Forum for Africa Studies in Sweden. As visiting researcher, the fellow spent 6 months at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the KU Leuven University in Belgium.
During the fellowship, the researcher has also maintained collaborations and strong professional ties with her home institution, the Laboratoire d’anthropologie prospective at UCLouvain (Belgium), where she now holds a position as Assistant Professor in Anthropology. She maintained, developed, and extended her scientific network, collaborating with leading scholars at UC Irvine (US), at Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako (Mali), at Université Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso), at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany), at the Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden), and the internation network of the Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD).
Work performed during this fellowship was ascribed to 9 work packages. The fellow carried out 3 months of fieldwork in Mali and Burkina Faso to collect ethnographic data. She attended several training sessions, regular research seminars, interdisciplinary workshops, and international conferences. She co-organized the international Conference of the Mande Studies Association in Sweden and the international APAD conference in Togo, both in 2021. She was the panel co-convenor and the discussant of 6 panels at the 9th European Conference on African Studies - ECAS 2023, at the 17th EASA Biennial Conference - EASA2022, at the 7e édition des Rencontres des Études Africaines en France - REAF2022, at the Annual Conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association - SANT2022, at the international APAD Conference 2022 and the international MANSA Conference 2022. The fellow made 17 presentations at international conferences, workshops, and seminars. In the third year of the project, she co-organized an International Seminar and Reading group on Feminist and Decolonial Approaches with Lys Alcayna-Stevens (Oxford University, UK) and B. Fontaine (UCLouvain, Belgium), including 14 hybrid sessions.
Results of this MSCA fellowship are reported in 6 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and 1 peer-reviewed book chapter in an edited volume published by Berghahn Books, one of the leading English-speaking publishers in the field of anthropology. In addition, several peer-reviewed articles are underway. The fellow also co-coordinated 2 special issues of international journals. The results are published in French and in English. These results show how this ‘migration, development, security’ nexus shapes socio-economic and political realities on different scales; (re)produces inequalities between countries, institutions, and individuals; and, more globally, increases vulnerabilities and violence in Mali and Burkina Faso. The fellow provided several outreach activities to the general public via non-scientific publications and podcasts.
