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
Changing ID Systems in West Africa and their Implications
Lambert, L. (Panel participant), Hammar, A. (Speaker), Fourchard, L. (Panel participant) & Sanwo-Olu, G. (Panel participant)
08.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Brill Verlag (Publisher)
Lambert, L. (Editorial Board)
2025 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
International Migration Research Network (External organisation)
Lambert, L. (Member)
2025 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
- 2024
Fabricating the Digital Citizen
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
01.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2023
Enacting Citizenship in the Digital Age
Lambert, L. (Organiser) & Scheel, S. (Organiser)
29.11.2023 → 30.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
AMMODI Virtual Roundtable: "Making African(ist) Migration Research Visible"
Lambert, L. (Organiser), Zanker, F. (Organiser), Bjarnesen, J. (Organiser) & Kandilige, L. (Organiser)
28.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Speaking back to Theory. Africanist Migration Research beyond the Categories
Lambert, L. (Organiser), Zanker, F. (Organiser), Setrana, M. B. (Organiser), Kandilige, L. (Organiser), Agblorti, S. (Organiser) & Bjarnesen, J. (Organiser)
15.03.2023 → 18.03.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2022
Springer Verlag (Publisher)
Lambert, L. (Editor)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
- 2020
Africa Europe Group of Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) (External organisation)
Lambert, L. (Chair), Bjarnesen, J. (Chair), Kandilige, L. (Chair) & Zanker, F. (Chair)
2020 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research