Faculty Member, Erasmus School of Law
PhD candidate
About
Since 2010 I’m holding a PhD position in Criminology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. I’m doing ethnographic research among members of local Nigerian migrant communities in Amsterdam. In 2008 I obtained a Master degree in Social Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam, where I engaged in the Master Program ‘Human Security’. For my Master thesis I did ethnographic research on livelihood strategies and notions of belonging of street boys in Tamale, Ghana. Hereafter I worked as a Junior Researcher for the University of Leiden, Campus The Hague, where I engaged in qualitative research projects focusing on local governance and citizenship. Next to the PhD project I have been involved in a study on the role of migrants’ social ties, on local and transnational level, in patterns of return migration of undocumented migrants. For my PhD project I’m currently studying the role of migrants’ (local and transnational) social ties in their residency and patterns of incorporation into local communities and the host society. Hereby I focus on attitudes towards social behavior and deviancy, and explore different ways by which social behavior and meanings of 'crime' are embedded in a social context and surrounded by social and socioeconomic structures, political discussions, public images, and a cultural mix of subjective meanings of behaviour and morality.
Specialties: migration, trans-nationalism, social relations and networks, locality, moral economy, trust, social capital, meanings of crime, criminalisation, and conflict
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