Short-term Visitor
Amanda Bisong is a Policy officer in the migration and mobility team of ECDPM, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), a think tank based in Maastricht, The Netherlands and Brussels, Belgium. She has a background in Law and Master degrees in International Law and Economics (World Trade Institute) and International Trade Policy and Trade Law (Lund University).
She has more than 10 years of policy implementation and research experience in international law, development, migration, and trade. She has experience in working and liaising with political representatives at the national, regional and continental levels.
She has written several articles and op-eds on free movement policies in Africa, linking the African continental free trade agreement and labour mobility with the AU free movement protocol. Some of which include: Trans-regional institutional cooperation as multilevel governance: ECOWAS migration policy and the EU; The ECOWAS free movement protocol and diversity of experiences of different categories of migrants: A qualitative study; Connecting African markets and people: streamlining regional trade and free movement protocols; Return, precarity and vulnerability in West Africa: Evidence from Nigeria; Labour mobility as a key element of the AfCFTA: What role for the AU’s free movement protocol?; Free movement in West Africa: three countries leaving ECOWAS could face migration hurdles.
Research focus/fields of interest: labour migration, regional migration governance, trade and migration.
Core discipline: law, international relations, interdisciplinary studies.
She has more than 10 years of policy implementation and research experience in international law, development, migration, and trade. She has experience in working and liaising with political representatives at the national, regional and continental levels.
She has written several articles and op-eds on free movement policies in Africa, linking the African continental free trade agreement and labour mobility with the AU free movement protocol. Some of which include: Trans-regional institutional cooperation as multilevel governance: ECOWAS migration policy and the EU; The ECOWAS free movement protocol and diversity of experiences of different categories of migrants: A qualitative study; Connecting African markets and people: streamlining regional trade and free movement protocols; Return, precarity and vulnerability in West Africa: Evidence from Nigeria; Labour mobility as a key element of the AfCFTA: What role for the AU’s free movement protocol?; Free movement in West Africa: three countries leaving ECOWAS could face migration hurdles.
Research focus/fields of interest: labour migration, regional migration governance, trade and migration.
Core discipline: law, international relations, interdisciplinary studies.
