Laura Lambert
Dr. des.

- Sociology - migration, bureaucracy, externalization, infrastructures, ethnography, asylum determination, refugees, future-making, political struggles, citizenship, state-making, West Africa, Niger, Sierra Leone, European Union, biometrics, digital identification
Research areas
- 2025
DigID Advisory Board Meeting
Scheel, S. (Organiser), Lambert, L. (Organiser) & Hargyono, S. (Organiser)
08.10.2025 → 10.10.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘You Cannot Beat a Fixed System’. Vintage Documents and other Truth Sources in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
03.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Absent Presence of ‘Tribe’ in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
02.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Absent Presence of ‘Tribe’ in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Sociotechnical Lives of Digital Identification: Intermediaries, Citizenship and Belonging
Lambert, L. (Speaker) & Eyenga, G. (Speaker)
25.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
African Migration Research Networks: Where Next?
Lambert, L. (Organiser), Zanker, F. (Organiser), Bjarnesen, J. (Organiser) & Kandilige, L. (Organiser)
11.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Off to Europe. Migration - One of the Major Challenges of the 21st Century
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Off to Europe. Migration - One of the Major Challenges of the 21st Century
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Undoing the ‘Migration Crisis’ Statistics. The Displacement Tracking Matrix by the International Organization for Migration and its Discontents in Niger
Lambert, L. (Speaker) & Dauchy, A. (Coauthor)
07.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Brokers of Citizenship: Justices of the Peace as Intermediaries in Sierra Leone’s Digital Identification Project
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
08.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research