Amanda Bisong

Junior Fellow IFG 1

February - April 2019

Amanda Bisong is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Nigeria. She works as a policy officer in the migration programme of the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), Maastricht, The Netherlands. Amanda is a Lawyer called to the Nigerian Bar, having studied law at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She also has a masters degree in International Trade Policy and Trade Law from Lund University, Sweden and a Masters in International Law and Economics from World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. Amanda does research in Public Law, Political Economy and Migration. Her research focus lays on migration governance and the interplay between regional and national commitments, as well as on the role of external stakeholders on influencing migration policies in West African States. She also does research on labour migration and exploring the linkages between trade and migration in West Africa.

Twitter:@BusaSays
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amanda_Bisong

While migration research, in the past decades, has increasingly highlighted the transnational dimension of migration as a bottom-up process, policy responses have so far mostly been framed as an issue ... Read more
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Institute:
University of Nigeria/ European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

Year:
2018/2019

Interdisciplinary Fellow Group:
IFG 1