Team > Dr. Kamal Donko

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography

Biography 

• Current position: Researcher at LASDEL Benin
• Education: 

  2014-2020	Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) PHD in Political Geography
  2009- 2011	University of Cologne (Germany) Master of Arts and Humanities « Culture& Environment in Africa »
  2005- 2008	Université d’Abomey-Calavi/FLASH Bachelor in Sociology- Anthropology

• Professional Experience: 
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  June 2023	Institution: Auswärtiges Amt & LASDEL Benin Position: Expert in Crisis Prevention and Stabilisation
  Feb. - Mar. 2023	Institution: AFD/LASDEL  Postion: Senior researcher on returnee migrants agricultural entrepreneurship
  2020- 2023	Institution: DFG/ Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence. University of Bayreuth  Position: Post-doctoral researcher on: Migration Control, Forced Immobility & Violent Mobilization and (Im)Mobility Regimes in the Borderlands
  Oct.- Dec. 2021	Institution: Handicap International (HI)/LASDEL-Benin Position: Associate Researcher on: Conflits, violence armée et cohésion sociale au Nord Togo et Nord Bénin
  Apr.- Sept. 2021	Institution: UNFCCC /AgriClimax Consulting Position: Associate Researcher on "Community Adaptation Learning for Farmers' Organisations in Borgou 2014- 2020 Institution: DFG/ University of Bayreuth/Chair of Political Geography Position: PhD Student/Associate Researcher on Migration and new technologies of border control in the Sahel (In)mobility, migration control and violent extremism in the Sahel and terrorism and insecurity in the Sahel 2006- 2010 Institution: BMBF/ IMPETUS  Position: Research Assistant/ Research Officer/ Senior Team Leader (Upper Ouémé Valley)

• Workshops and conferences
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  June 2023	Workshop “From Warning to Action-the Case of West African Coastal States” (Berlin, Germany) Federal Foreign Office
  April 2023	International Colloquium on : « les crises sécuritaires et déplacements de populations» (Ouagadougou, Burkina- Faso) Université Joseph KI-ZERBO
  November 2022	Workshop: “Return Migration and Gender in West Africa” (Banjul, Gambia) Heinrich- Böll-Stiftung
  April 2022	.Webinar on: “Migration in cities. Managing the Humanitarian Crisis” (Online Webinar) Centre of  Migration Research
  April 2017	Workshop: “Intra-State conflict (Bonn, Germany) African Good Governance- DAAD June 2017 Workshop: “Democracy” (Berlin, Germany) African Good Governance- DAAD November 2017 Workshop: “Europe and Africa…” (Brussels, Belgium) African Good Governance- DAAD March 2016 International Colloque:  “Entre ordre et instabilité…” (Cotonou, Benin) International Colloque:  “Entre ordre et instabilité…”

Publications

2023

Doevenspeck, M.; Donko, K.; Iwuoha, V. (2023): Bewaffnete Konflikte in westafrikanischen Grenzräumen. Geographische Rundschau 2023-9: 20-24.

Doevenspeck, M., & Donko, K. (2023). Infrastructures of Migrant (Im) mobilities in the Borderland of Burkina Faso and Niger. Society, 1-10.

Donko, K., Doevenspeck, M., Nassi, K. M., Imorou, A-B. (2023) : Contrôle des migrations et dynamiques transfrontalières au sahel : le cas de Kantchari/Makalondi (Burkina-Faso/Niger). Publications LASMO. DEZAN, Volume 11, Numéro 1, Juin 2023. ISSN 1840-717-X DU 4ème trimestre. Dépôt Légal N°6378 du 4ème trimestre.

Prokoph, N., Donko, K., & Doevenspeck, M. (2023). West African Borderlands: Between ECOWAS Free Movement and EU Externalization Policy. In ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa: Costs, Benefits and Challenges (pp. 141-168). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

2022

Donko, K. (2022). Territory, Power and Politics at a Frontier in Central Benin. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.

Doevenspeck, M., Donko, K., & Beisel, U. (2022). Migration controls at the Burkina Faso-Niger borderland reveal European attitudes to African livelihoods. Africa at LSE.

Donko, K., Doevenspeck, M., & Beisel, U. (2022). Migration control, the local economy and violence in the Burkina Faso and Niger borderland. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 37(2), 235-251.

2021

Breuer, A., Doevenspeck, M., Donko, K., & Ouedraogo, S. (2021). COVID-19 and (Im) mobilities in West Africa.

2019

Doevenspeck, M., Hollstegge, J., & Donko, K. (2019). Migrationskontrolle in Westafrika.

2018

Donko, K., & Doevenspeck, M. (2018). Néo-toponymes dans les zones de colonisation agricole du centre-Bénin: enjeux spatio-politiques. Annales de la FASHS: Nouvelle Édition, 1, 4-25.

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography

Research interests

• Migration Studies
• (Forced)Im/moblities
  
• (In)securities and border studies
  
• Peace & Conflict Studies
  
• Conflicts over natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa
  

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography

Dr. Kamal Donko
Researcher at LASDEL Benin

02BP1413 Dokparou-Est, Parakou (Republic of Benin)

Phone: +229 97 720 700 / +229 95 500 200
E-mail: eldeenfr2001@yahoo.fr or kamaldonko@gmail.com