Franzisca Zanker
Biographic Data
| ID | 386749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franzisca Zanker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franzisca |
| FAMILY NAME | Zanker |
| SIGNATURE | ZANKER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1345-0364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
When there is no migration, the whole region has a problem”: The Political Priorities of Migration Policies in West Africa
This paper seeks considers the place of migration to Europe for West African governments in relation to other forms of politically relevant mobilities. This helps to understand what governments in West Africa prioritize when it comes to migration policy. No doubt, there is an increasing European influence on the migration agenda. However, despite this influence there are still other West African interests when it comes to migration governance. Th…
A typology of resistance: The ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa
Forced returns from Europe are politically highly sensitive across West Africa. Yet, there is enormous pressure from the European Union on West African governments to improve cooperation on returns. This paper seeks to answer how countries such as Nigeria, Senegal and The Gambia are resisting this pressure. Based on 129 qualitative interviews on both continents, the paper develops a typology that shows that states use a range of responses in the …
Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia
In 2019, the tiny West African country of the Gambia imposed a moratorium on all deportation flights from the EU. Though West African countries are notoriously reluctant to cooperate on forced returns, such a moratorium was unheard of and caused an uproar within diplomatic circles in Europe. In the age of deportability, why is deporting ‘unwanted’ migrants an illustration of a nation’s sovereign rights, yet refusing to accept deportees is not? Th…
The (in)formality of mobility in the Ecowas region: The paradoxes of free movement
The free movement protocols of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have never been fully implemented, yet within the region people have continued to move relatively freely. At the same time, the original aim to improve mobility appears to be changing to one of control over mobility. Drawing on fieldwork data as well as a collaborative, deliberative process of uncovering what free movement means in conversations with a group of …
No Hope for the 'Foreigners: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa
In South Africa there is a conflation between refugees and other migrants at a legislative, policy and narrative level. Based on 32 interviews and four focus groups conducted in Johannesburg and Musina in spring 2020, we show the conflation between refugees and migrants through changing legislation, a bureaucratized system which makes access to any legal status difficult and political narratives that serve to construct a threat. This results in d…
Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa
Both Uganda and South Africa were quick to respond to the global pandemic - Uganda for example imposing quarantine on foreign travellers after only a handful of cases before shutting off all international flights, and South Africa imposing one of the first lockdowns on the continent. Reflecting on the first 6 months of the pandemic responses in terms of refugee protection, the two countries have taken diverging pathways. South Africa used the pan…
African perspectives on migration: Re-centring Southern Africa Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration . By Rose Jaji I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging i…
Despite the explosion of migration literature in recent years, there remains a bias in academic literature to focus on Europe or other areas in the Global North. Migration studies tend to follow the political interests of curbing access for refugees and other migrants in the Global North, divorced from the fact that most displacement and indeed much mobility takes place in the Global South (Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 2020). Worsening matters, African schol…
The Corona Virus and Migration Governance in South Africa: Business As Usual
The South African response in dealing with the Corona pandemic needs to speak to the realities of all people living in the country, including migrant and refugee communities. Reflecting on this in light of ongoing research on the political stakes of migration governance, we find that the virus response shows little change in the government agenda when it comes to dealing with refugees and other migrants. Veritably, we see that the pandemic may ev…
Managing or restricting movement? Diverging approaches of African and European migration governance
Though a common EU-African agenda of dealing with migration goes back at least a decade with bilateral, regional and continental approaches, it has gained in visible importance in recent years. But what are the actual approaches and does the rhetoric they evoke speak to their actual practice? Unpacking 76 policy documents relating to the governance of migration from African and European institutions between 2005 and 2016, the paper finds that the…
The Political Influence of Return: From Diaspora to Libyan Transit Returnees
In December 2016, Gambian dictator Jammeh was surprisingly ousted through the ballot box by a democratically motivated opposition. With this remarkable change, tables also turned for Gambian migrants. Gambians abroad were called upon to return and help rebuild the nation, while political interests in host states increased to return “irregular” migrants. In what ways can migrant return be politically influential, especially after a critical junctu…
Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations
The book offers a critical analysis of legitimacy in peacebuilding, with a focus on peace negotiations and civil society participation in particular. The aim of this book is to unpack the meaning of legitimacy for the population in peacebuilding processes and the relationship this has with civil society involvement. There is a growing consensus for addressing local concerns in peacebuilding, with the aim of ensuring local ownership. Moreover, sch…
Moving Beyond Hybridity: The Multi-Scalar Adaptation of Community Policing in Liberia
Extensive fieldwork in Liberia revealed that security agents and civilians alike all talked of community policing, yet they had different visions, understandings and legitimizations of the idea in mind. These ranged from community meetings to vigilante groups, and were divergent in whether they were orientated towards a Weberian-state model or the community as a primary security provider. This variation was not simply an example of hybrid policin…
Power, peace, and space in Africa: Revisiting territorial power sharing
Power-sharing agreements have become a blueprint for efforts to end violent conflicts in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa. Such agreements, however, rarely include territorial power sharing – at least, not according to the formal, rather unhelpful narrow definition that includes federalism and decentralization. This article argues that the concept of territorial power sharing needs to be broadened in order to account for the manifo…
Legitimate Representation: Civil Society Actors in Peace Negotiations Revisited
Current research suggests that negotiations which are more inclusive are more likely to achieve durable peace since they speak to the entire population. One way to ensure public support is through the inclusion of civil society groups, either directly at the negotiation table or indirectly in supportive roles. It is argued that through their inclusion there is a positive effect on the legitimacy of negotiations which in turn leads to more durable…
Why Peace Fails: The causes and prevention of civil war recurrence
The aim of this book is to identify causal patterns which explain the recurrence of armed conflict after a civil war has come to an end. The importance of the work is irrefutable, as the latest coup in the Central African Republic and military intervention in Mali underline; this volume discusses earlier wars in both countries. Call finds that political exclusion is the key factor in explaining the recurrence of conflict. Using a multi-method app…
Comparison Re-invented: Adaptation of Universal Methods to African Studies (Conference Report)
Drawing from a combination of specific, empirical research projects with different theoretical backgrounds, a workshop discussed one methodological aspect often somewhat overlooked in African Studies: comparison. Participants addressed several questions, along with presenting overviews of how different disciplines within African Studies approach comparison in their research and naming specific challenges within individual research projects. The q…
Power-sharing in Africa's war zones: How Important Is the Local Level
Research on power-sharing in Africa remains silent on the effects of national peace agreements on the sub-national level. Conversely, most armed conflicts originate and are fought in (or over) specific areas. A plausible hypothesis would be that for power-sharing to have the desired pacifying effect throughout the national territory, it needs to be extended to the local level. Based on fieldwork in six former hotspots in Liberia, Burundi and the …
The (in)formality of mobility in the Ecowas region: The paradoxes of free movement
The free movement protocols of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have never been fully implemented, yet within the region people have continued to move relatively freely. At the same time, the original aim to improve mobility appears to be changing to one of control over mobility. Drawing on fieldwork data as well as a collaborative, deliberative process of uncovering what free movement means in conversations with a group of …
The Corona Virus and Migration Governance in South Africa: Business As Usual
The South African response in dealing with the Corona pandemic needs to speak to the realities of all people living in the country, including migrant and refugee communities. Reflecting on this in light of ongoing research on the political stakes of migration governance, we find that the virus response shows little change in the government agenda when it comes to dealing with refugees and other migrants. Veritably, we see that the pandemic may ev…
Legitimate Representation: Civil Society Actors in Peace Negotiations Revisited
Current research suggests that negotiations which are more inclusive are more likely to achieve durable peace since they speak to the entire population. One way to ensure public support is through the inclusion of civil society groups, either directly at the negotiation table or indirectly in supportive roles. It is argued that through their inclusion there is a positive effect on the legitimacy of negotiations which in turn leads to more durable…
Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia
In 2019, the tiny West African country of the Gambia imposed a moratorium on all deportation flights from the EU. Though West African countries are notoriously reluctant to cooperate on forced returns, such a moratorium was unheard of and caused an uproar within diplomatic circles in Europe. In the age of deportability, why is deporting ‘unwanted’ migrants an illustration of a nation’s sovereign rights, yet refusing to accept deportees is not? Th…
The Political Influence of Return: From Diaspora to Libyan Transit Returnees
In December 2016, Gambian dictator Jammeh was surprisingly ousted through the ballot box by a democratically motivated opposition. With this remarkable change, tables also turned for Gambian migrants. Gambians abroad were called upon to return and help rebuild the nation, while political interests in host states increased to return “irregular” migrants. In what ways can migrant return be politically influential, especially after a critical junctu…
Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa
Both Uganda and South Africa were quick to respond to the global pandemic - Uganda for example imposing quarantine on foreign travellers after only a handful of cases before shutting off all international flights, and South Africa imposing one of the first lockdowns on the continent. Reflecting on the first 6 months of the pandemic responses in terms of refugee protection, the two countries have taken diverging pathways. South Africa used the pan…
Managing or restricting movement? Diverging approaches of African and European migration governance
Though a common EU-African agenda of dealing with migration goes back at least a decade with bilateral, regional and continental approaches, it has gained in visible importance in recent years. But what are the actual approaches and does the rhetoric they evoke speak to their actual practice? Unpacking 76 policy documents relating to the governance of migration from African and European institutions between 2005 and 2016, the paper finds that the…
A typology of resistance: The ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa
Forced returns from Europe are politically highly sensitive across West Africa. Yet, there is enormous pressure from the European Union on West African governments to improve cooperation on returns. This paper seeks to answer how countries such as Nigeria, Senegal and The Gambia are resisting this pressure. Based on 129 qualitative interviews on both continents, the paper develops a typology that shows that states use a range of responses in the …
No Hope for the 'Foreigners: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa
In South Africa there is a conflation between refugees and other migrants at a legislative, policy and narrative level. Based on 32 interviews and four focus groups conducted in Johannesburg and Musina in spring 2020, we show the conflation between refugees and migrants through changing legislation, a bureaucratized system which makes access to any legal status difficult and political narratives that serve to construct a threat. This results in d…
Moving Beyond Hybridity: The Multi-Scalar Adaptation of Community Policing in Liberia
Extensive fieldwork in Liberia revealed that security agents and civilians alike all talked of community policing, yet they had different visions, understandings and legitimizations of the idea in mind. These ranged from community meetings to vigilante groups, and were divergent in whether they were orientated towards a Weberian-state model or the community as a primary security provider. This variation was not simply an example of hybrid policin…
Power, peace, and space in Africa: Revisiting territorial power sharing
Power-sharing agreements have become a blueprint for efforts to end violent conflicts in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa. Such agreements, however, rarely include territorial power sharing – at least, not according to the formal, rather unhelpful narrow definition that includes federalism and decentralization. This article argues that the concept of territorial power sharing needs to be broadened in order to account for the manifo…
Comparison Re-invented: Adaptation of Universal Methods to African Studies (Conference Report)
Drawing from a combination of specific, empirical research projects with different theoretical backgrounds, a workshop discussed one methodological aspect often somewhat overlooked in African Studies: comparison. Participants addressed several questions, along with presenting overviews of how different disciplines within African Studies approach comparison in their research and naming specific challenges within individual research projects. The q…
Power-sharing in Africa's war zones: How Important Is the Local Level
Research on power-sharing in Africa remains silent on the effects of national peace agreements on the sub-national level. Conversely, most armed conflicts originate and are fought in (or over) specific areas. A plausible hypothesis would be that for power-sharing to have the desired pacifying effect throughout the national territory, it needs to be extended to the local level. Based on fieldwork in six former hotspots in Liberia, Burundi and the …
When there is no migration, the whole region has a problem”: The Political Priorities of Migration Policies in West Africa
This paper seeks considers the place of migration to Europe for West African governments in relation to other forms of politically relevant mobilities. This helps to understand what governments in West Africa prioritize when it comes to migration policy. No doubt, there is an increasing European influence on the migration agenda. However, despite this influence there are still other West African interests when it comes to migration governance. Th…
Comparison Re-invented: Adaptation of Universal Methods to African Studies (Conference Report)
Drawing from a combination of specific, empirical research projects with different theoretical backgrounds, a workshop discussed one methodological aspect often somewhat overlooked in African Studies: comparison. Participants addressed several questions, along with presenting overviews of how different disciplines within African Studies approach comparison in their research and naming specific challenges within individual research projects. The q…
Power-sharing in Africa's war zones: How Important Is the Local Level
Research on power-sharing in Africa remains silent on the effects of national peace agreements on the sub-national level. Conversely, most armed conflicts originate and are fought in (or over) specific areas. A plausible hypothesis would be that for power-sharing to have the desired pacifying effect throughout the national territory, it needs to be extended to the local level. Based on fieldwork in six former hotspots in Liberia, Burundi and the …
Legitimate Representation: Civil Society Actors in Peace Negotiations Revisited
Current research suggests that negotiations which are more inclusive are more likely to achieve durable peace since they speak to the entire population. One way to ensure public support is through the inclusion of civil society groups, either directly at the negotiation table or indirectly in supportive roles. It is argued that through their inclusion there is a positive effect on the legitimacy of negotiations which in turn leads to more durable…
Why Peace Fails: The causes and prevention of civil war recurrence
The aim of this book is to identify causal patterns which explain the recurrence of armed conflict after a civil war has come to an end. The importance of the work is irrefutable, as the latest coup in the Central African Republic and military intervention in Mali underline; this volume discusses earlier wars in both countries. Call finds that political exclusion is the key factor in explaining the recurrence of conflict. Using a multi-method app…
Power, peace, and space in Africa: Revisiting territorial power sharing
Power-sharing agreements have become a blueprint for efforts to end violent conflicts in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa. Such agreements, however, rarely include territorial power sharing – at least, not according to the formal, rather unhelpful narrow definition that includes federalism and decentralization. This article argues that the concept of territorial power sharing needs to be broadened in order to account for the manifo…
Moving Beyond Hybridity: The Multi-Scalar Adaptation of Community Policing in Liberia
Extensive fieldwork in Liberia revealed that security agents and civilians alike all talked of community policing, yet they had different visions, understandings and legitimizations of the idea in mind. These ranged from community meetings to vigilante groups, and were divergent in whether they were orientated towards a Weberian-state model or the community as a primary security provider. This variation was not simply an example of hybrid policin…
Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations
The book offers a critical analysis of legitimacy in peacebuilding, with a focus on peace negotiations and civil society participation in particular. The aim of this book is to unpack the meaning of legitimacy for the population in peacebuilding processes and the relationship this has with civil society involvement. There is a growing consensus for addressing local concerns in peacebuilding, with the aim of ensuring local ownership. Moreover, sch…
Managing or restricting movement? Diverging approaches of African and European migration governance
Though a common EU-African agenda of dealing with migration goes back at least a decade with bilateral, regional and continental approaches, it has gained in visible importance in recent years. But what are the actual approaches and does the rhetoric they evoke speak to their actual practice? Unpacking 76 policy documents relating to the governance of migration from African and European institutions between 2005 and 2016, the paper finds that the…
The Political Influence of Return: From Diaspora to Libyan Transit Returnees
In December 2016, Gambian dictator Jammeh was surprisingly ousted through the ballot box by a democratically motivated opposition. With this remarkable change, tables also turned for Gambian migrants. Gambians abroad were called upon to return and help rebuild the nation, while political interests in host states increased to return “irregular” migrants. In what ways can migrant return be politically influential, especially after a critical junctu…
The Corona Virus and Migration Governance in South Africa: Business As Usual
The South African response in dealing with the Corona pandemic needs to speak to the realities of all people living in the country, including migrant and refugee communities. Reflecting on this in light of ongoing research on the political stakes of migration governance, we find that the virus response shows little change in the government agenda when it comes to dealing with refugees and other migrants. Veritably, we see that the pandemic may ev…
Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa
Both Uganda and South Africa were quick to respond to the global pandemic - Uganda for example imposing quarantine on foreign travellers after only a handful of cases before shutting off all international flights, and South Africa imposing one of the first lockdowns on the continent. Reflecting on the first 6 months of the pandemic responses in terms of refugee protection, the two countries have taken diverging pathways. South Africa used the pan…
African perspectives on migration: Re-centring Southern Africa Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration . By Rose Jaji I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging i…
Despite the explosion of migration literature in recent years, there remains a bias in academic literature to focus on Europe or other areas in the Global North. Migration studies tend to follow the political interests of curbing access for refugees and other migrants in the Global North, divorced from the fact that most displacement and indeed much mobility takes place in the Global South (Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 2020). Worsening matters, African schol…
Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia
In 2019, the tiny West African country of the Gambia imposed a moratorium on all deportation flights from the EU. Though West African countries are notoriously reluctant to cooperate on forced returns, such a moratorium was unheard of and caused an uproar within diplomatic circles in Europe. In the age of deportability, why is deporting ‘unwanted’ migrants an illustration of a nation’s sovereign rights, yet refusing to accept deportees is not? Th…
The (in)formality of mobility in the Ecowas region: The paradoxes of free movement
The free movement protocols of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have never been fully implemented, yet within the region people have continued to move relatively freely. At the same time, the original aim to improve mobility appears to be changing to one of control over mobility. Drawing on fieldwork data as well as a collaborative, deliberative process of uncovering what free movement means in conversations with a group of …
No Hope for the 'Foreigners: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa
In South Africa there is a conflation between refugees and other migrants at a legislative, policy and narrative level. Based on 32 interviews and four focus groups conducted in Johannesburg and Musina in spring 2020, we show the conflation between refugees and migrants through changing legislation, a bureaucratized system which makes access to any legal status difficult and political narratives that serve to construct a threat. This results in d…
A typology of resistance: The ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa
Forced returns from Europe are politically highly sensitive across West Africa. Yet, there is enormous pressure from the European Union on West African governments to improve cooperation on returns. This paper seeks to answer how countries such as Nigeria, Senegal and The Gambia are resisting this pressure. Based on 129 qualitative interviews on both continents, the paper develops a typology that shows that states use a range of responses in the …
When there is no migration, the whole region has a problem”: The Political Priorities of Migration Policies in West Africa
This paper seeks considers the place of migration to Europe for West African governments in relation to other forms of politically relevant mobilities. This helps to understand what governments in West Africa prioritize when it comes to migration policy. No doubt, there is an increasing European influence on the migration agenda. However, despite this influence there are still other West African interests when it comes to migration governance. Th…
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