Visiting PhD Researcher Leonie Jegen at CERTIZENS in Copenhagen
Leonie Jegen is a visiting researcher at CERTIZENS in October and November 2023. Read about her motivation for collaborating with CERTIZENS and how she benefits from our research community for her upcoming article.
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"I have been following the impressive work of the CERTIZEN project and consider the pursuit of a research stay an invaluable opportunity to engage with and learn from the wider community of researchers working on questions of citizenship certification in the African contexts.
Document fraud is a major field of counter migrant smuggling interventions and hence linked to my research project. A crucial project that has often been mentioned at different training workshops I attended is the EU funded project to modernize Senegal’s civil registries. This sparked my interest in the topic and I am planning to write the second article of my cumulative PhD on the in/exclusion paradox linked to the modernization of the civil registries. Hence, I consider exchanging with researchers working on similar questions of significant benefit for my work and I hope that I can share my expertise and research insights with the members of the CAS."
Read more about Leonie Jegens background in her introduction at the Centre for African Studies: Visiting Researcher Leonie Jegen – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)