Ida Marie Savio Vammen

Ida Marie Savio Vammen is a postdoc researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). She mainly conducts ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal and Argentina on the multi-scalar politics of mobility that shape West Africa migration today. She is part of the collaborative research program: Borderwork - Migrants, Brokers and European Border Governance in West Africa. Based on three ethnographic fieldworks in West Africa – Senegal, Mali and Niger – the project examines the human, social and political consequences of Europe’s border externalization and the ongoing struggle over mobility.