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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, and European migration politics. Chemlali’s geographic focus is on North Africa, specifically Libya and Tunisia 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 externalization 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 characterize the North African borderlands, with special attention to the Tunisian and Libyan borderlands.
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, Danish Institute for International Studies
1 Dec 2020 → 1 Jan 2024
Keywords
- Sociology and Social Conditions
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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
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Research output
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Rings in the Water: Felt Externalisation in the Extended EU borderlands
Chemlali, A., 6 Apr 2023, In: Geopolitics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented Motherhood, Waiting and Smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan Borderlands
Chemlali, A., Mar 2023, In: Trends in Organized Crime. 26, 1, p. 30–47 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Ne rien faire et ne rien laisser faire. Les enjeux de la non-politique migratoire tunisienne.
El Ghali, A. & Chemlali, A., 7 Apr 2022, In: Revue Tunisienne de Science Politique. 7, 1, p. 81-105 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Denmark’s new externalisation law: motives and consequences
Lemberg-Pedersen, M., Whyte, M. Z. & Chemlali, A., 18 Nov 2021, In: Forced Migration Review. 68, p. 36-39 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Danish desires to export asylum responsibility to camps outside Europe: AMIS seminar report
Lemberg-Pedersen, M., Chemlali, A., Whyte, Z. & Tan, N. F., 19 Mar 2021, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies. 53 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research
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Prizes
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EliteForsk Rejsestipendie
Chemlali, Ahlam (Recipient), 20 Feb 2023
Prize: Research, education and innovation prizes
Activities
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University of California at Los Angeles
Ahlam Chemlali (Visiting researcher)
1 Mar 2023 → 15 Jun 2023Activity: Visiting another research institution
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L'Art Rue: Migration, Crisis and Consequences in the Maghreb
Ahlam Chemlali (Participant)
24 Feb 2023Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, seminars, exhibitions or similar
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Docs & Talks: The Last Shelter / Migration Talk
Ahlam Chemlali (Lecturer)
21 Feb 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
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Nordafrika gennem tiderne
Ahlam Chemlali (Lecturer)
8 Feb 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
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Det Arabiske Forår - hvor står vi nu?
Ahlam Chemlali (Lecturer)
2 Feb 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
Press/Media
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Debat: EU fremmer migration fra Tunesien i stedet for at stoppe den
13/08/2023
1 Media contribution
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Debat: Ny grænseteknologi skubber til vores grænser
26/06/2023
1 Media contribution
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Commentary: How the U.S. is repeating Europe's failed migration policies
04/06/2023 → 05/06/2023
3 items of Media coverage
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Stor bekymring for ny migrantkrise – nu ændrer flygtningehardliner kurs
12/03/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media