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Personal profile
Research profile
Primary research areas
Ahlam Chemlali’s research focuses on migration and border management, gender and violence, sexual and gender-based violence, slow violence, life in transit, migrants’ everyday lives, deportations and European migration politics. Chemlali’s geographic focus is on North Africa, specifically Libya, Tunisia and Morocco and Europe's Southern borders.
Current research
Ahlam Chemlali’s research examines the politics and practices of border violence in contemporary European migration politics. Chemlali explores how the militarisation and externalisation of European border control to North Africa produces the everyday violence of the border and how this shapes gendered experiences. Her research project offers a unique ethnographic perspective on how West African migrant women in transit navigate and negotiate the violent terrains that characterizes the North African borderlands, with special attention to Libya and Tunisia.
Projects
At DIIS - Danish Insitute for International Studies Ahlam is a part of the project ‘Women on the Move’ which is concerned with the gendered aspects of irregular migration to Europe. Specifically, the attention is on women migrants in transit, and waiting in transit camps, along the African-European migration route, in Nigeria, Niger, Libya and Italy. The project is funded by Open Society Foundation, New York.
Find more information about the project here.
At AAU Copenhagen Campus, Ahlam Chemlali will teach at GRS - Global Refugee Studies with special emphasis on borders, transit, violence, and gender.
The PhD is hosted at DIIS – Danish Institute for International Studies at the Migration and Global Order unit and funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research.
CONTACT:
Email: ahch@dps.aau.dk
External positions
PhD Fellow, Dansk institut for internationale studier (DIIS)
1 Dec 2020 → 1 Jan 2024Keywords
- Sociology and Social Conditions
Projects
- 1 Active
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Everyday Violence in the Borderlands: Migrant women in transit from Africa to Europe
01/12/2020 → 01/12/2024
Project: Research
Research output
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Does Information Save Migrants' Lives? Knowledge and needs of West African migrants en route to Europe
Vammen, I. M. S., Plambech, S., Chemlali, A. & Nyberg Sørensen, N., 23 Feb 2021, Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, DIIS. 68 p. (DIIS Report; No. 2021, Vol. 01).Research output: Book/Report › Report › Commissioned
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Everyday Violence and Security in Tunisia
Chemlali, A. & Haugbølle, R. H., 19 Feb 2019, In: “Civilianizing” the State in the MENA and Asia Pacific Regions.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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Étude sur la Sécurité Urbaine dans la Médina de Tunis
Chemlali, A., El Ghali, A. & Turki, Y., 2018, DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture. 75 p. (DIGNITY Publication Series on Torture and Organised Violence; No. 22).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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EU's fokus på migrationskontrol kommer ikke til at løse hverken Tunesiens eller EUs problemer
Chemlali, A., 1 Feb 2021, In: Jyllands-Posten.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Comment/debate
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Et fodslæbende og splittet EU har spillet sig selv af banen i det krigshærgede Libyen
Chemlali, A. & Grue Christensen, R., 19 Feb 2020, In: Jyllands-Posten.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article
Press / Media
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Corona er tidens altoverskyggende krise. Her er fem uløste konflikter, vi ikke må glemme.
16/02/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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EUs fokus på migrationskontrol kommer ikke til at løse Tunesiens problemer
01/02/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Tunesien fik mere demokrati, men frustrationen lever
17/12/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media