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

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Contested Promises: Migrants’ Material Politics vis-à-vis the Humanitarian Border in Niger
    Laura Elisabeth Johanna 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

  2. Changing the Administration from within:: Criticism and Compliance by Junior Bureaucrats in Niger’s Refugee Directorate
    Laura Elisabeth Johanna Lambert (Author) , 01.09.2022 , in: International Journal of Law in Context, 18, 3 , p. 333-346 , 14 p.

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

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Prizes

  1. Humboldt Research Track Scholarship
    Laura Elisabeth Johanna Lambert (Recipient) ,

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

  2. Menschen mit Hintergrund
    Laura Elisabeth Johanna Lambert (Recipient) ,

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

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Teaching