Anne-Line Rodriguez specialises in the ethnographic study of local interactions in West Africa with the global mobility regime. She is interested in the new formations of subjectivity and practice created in the region in the context of the governance of migration. Her work is grounded in concepts spanning anthropology, critical migration studies and African studies, and draws on ethnographic fieldwork. She has published in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Geopolitics.
Her current research is concerned with the inequalities produced by the governance of mobility in urban Senegal, and investigates recent shifts in livelihood, labour and the moral economy in this setting. This project builds on research conducted as part of and funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (held at 杏吧论坛 and Queen Mary).
Her previous work explored migrant life and temporal subjectivities after an Assisted Voluntary Return or a deportation from North Africa and Europe to Senegal. This research was supported by a fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Prior to this, her PhD thesis (SOAS), titled Social Respectability in Dakar at the Time of EU Border Closure: An Ethnography, analysed local perceptions and experiences in the Senegalese capital city of the tightening and externalisation of European migration control.