Dr. Laura Lambert

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.234
Fon +49.4131.677-2659, laura.lambert@leuphana.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Professorship of Political Sociology

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Vita

Laura Lambert is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project "Doing Digital Identities" (DigID) with a focus on Sierra Leone. In her dissertation, Laura examined the EU's externalization of refugee protection in Niger on the basis of a comprehensive ethnography. Among her main research interests are the remaking of European migration control and asylum policies in the cooperating African third states, asylum and migration bureaucracies, migrant struggles, future-making, infrastructures, and international organizations.

Academic CV

10/2023- Postdoctoral researcher, ERC project Doing Digital Identities

07/2022-09/2023 Deputy head of the research cluster "Flight and Migration", Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg

12/2022: PhD in Social Anthropology, dissertation topic: "Everyday Externalization. The Transformations of Individual Asylum in Niger", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

11/2017-01/2022 PhD student, Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany

08/2017 M.A. Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin

Projects

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Brokers of Citizenship. Justices of the Peace as Intermediaries in Sierra Leone’s Digital Identification Project
    Laura Lambert (Author) , 01.01.2026 , in: Citizenship Studies , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Resettlement as a temporal border: infrastructural promises and future-making among migrants and officials in Niger
    Laura Lambert (Author) , 01.12.2025 , in: Comparative Migration Studies, 13, 1 , 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Between morality and the law: negotiating protection for queer asylum seekers in Niger’s asylum administration
    Laura Lambert (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51, 10 , p. 2529-2546 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Contested future-making in containment: temporalities, infrastructures and agency
    Laura Lambert (Author) , Tabea Scharrer (Author) , Stefan Millar (Author) , Mert Pekşen (Author) , Ville Laakkonen (Author) , 01.12.2024 , in: Comparative Migration Studies, 12, 1 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Contested Promises: Migrants’ Material Politics vis-à-vis the Humanitarian Border in Niger
    Laura Lambert (Author) , 08.06.2023 , in: Science as Culture, 32, 3 , p. 363-386 , 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Westafrika
    Laura Lambert (Author) , Franzisca Zanker (Author) , 01.01.2023 Baden-Baden , p. 701-706 , 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  2. Externalisierung
    Laura Lambert (Author) , 01.01.2023 Baden-Baden , p. 513-520 , 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  3. Externalisierungspolitik als "travelling model": lokale Aneignungen und Widerstände beim Ausbau des Asylverfahrens im Niger
    Laura Lambert (Author) , 01.01.2022 Berlin; Hamburg , p. 220-237 , 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  4. Studium gestattet?: Die symbolische Ordnung des Asyl- und Aufenthaltsrechts beim Hochschulzugang von Geflüchteten
    Laura Lambert (Author) , 05.02.2019 Wiesbaden , p. 347-365 , 19 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  5. Asyl im Niger. Politische Rolle und lokale Adaptionen des Flüchtlingsschutzes
    Laura Lambert (Author) , 01.01.2019 Bielefeld , p. 191-206 , 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

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Activities

  1. Between ‘Two-SIM Citizens’ and ‘the Commoners’. Doing Digital and Social Identities to Navigate the Borders between Sierra Leone and Guinea
    Laura Lambert (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Updating Digital Identities. Between Biometric Fixity and Alternative Sociomaterial Truths in Sierra Leone’s Digital ID Project
    Laura Lambert (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  3. The Undercommons of Biometric Citizenship in Sierra Leone
    Laura Lambert (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  4. ‘You Cannot Beat a Fixed System’. Vintage Documents and other Truth Sources in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
    Laura Lambert (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  5. The Absent Presence of ‘Tribe’ in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
    Laura Lambert (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

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Press / Media

Prizes

  1. Klaus J. Bade Award for Junior Migration Researchers
    Laura Lambert (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  2. Humboldt Research Track Scholarship
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    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  3. Menschen mit Hintergrund
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    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Education

  4. Study Stipendium
    Laura Lambert (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  5. Study Stipendium
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    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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Courses