Team > Dr. Kamal Donko
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:
| 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 | |||||
| Apr.- Sept. 2021 | Institution: UNFCCC /AgriClimax Consulting
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Workshops and conferences
| 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
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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
Publikationen
2024
Kamal Donko, Martin Doevenspeck: Frontières troublées, paix possible : réinventer la médiation dans le nord du Bénin face aux défis du terrorisme. In: Revue Internationale de la Recherche Scientifique, 2 (2024). - S. 929-944.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.11288158
Kamal Donko, Martin Doevenspeck, Serge Noël Ouedraogo: Impact du terrorisme sur l'éducation : fermeture d'écoles au Burkina Faso, Niger et Nord Benin. In: Zaouli : Revue Ivoirienne des Arts, des Sciences de l’Information et du Patrimoine, 7 (2024). - S. 108-125.
Kamal Donko, Ramanou Y. M. A. Aboudou, Martin Doevenspeck: L'oléoduc par le bas : enjeux socio-économiques et récits locaux sur une méga infrastructure dans le nord du Bénin. In: Suds, 289 (2024). - S. 247-273.
doi:10.4000/12qn8
2023
Martin Doevenspeck, Kamal Donko, Victor Iwuoha: Bewaffnete Konflikte in westafrikanischen Grenzräumen. In: Geographische Rundschau, 75 (2023). - S. 20-24.
Kamal Donko, Martin Doevenspeck, Karl Martial Nassi, Abou-Bakari Imorou: Contrôle des migrations et dynamiques transfrontalières au Sahel : le cas de Kantchari/Makalondi (Burkina-Faso/Niger). In: Revue Dezan, 11 (2023). - S. 83-113.
Martin Doevenspeck, Kamal Donko: Infrastructures of Migrant (Im)mobilities in the Borderland of Burkina Faso and Niger. In: Society, 60 (2023). - S. 310-319.
doi:10.1007/s12115-023-00856-7
Nicole Prokoph, Kamal Donko, Martin Doevenspeck: West African Borderlands : Between ECOWAS Free Movement and EU Externalization Policy. In: Samuel Kehinde Okunade, Olusola Ogunnubi (Hrsg.): ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa : Costs, Benefits and Challenges. - Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. - S. 141-168.
doi:10.1007/978-981-19-5005-6_7
2022
Kamal Donko, Martin Doevenspeck, Uli Beisel: Migration Control, the Local Economy and Violence in the Burkina Faso and Niger Borderland. In: Journal of Borderlands Studies, 37 (2022). - S. 235-251.
doi:10.1080/08865655.2021.1997629
2021
Andras Breuer, Martin Doevenspeck, Kamal Donko, Serge Ouedraogo: COVID-19 and (Im)mobilities in West Africa. - Bayreuth, 2021. - XIV, 153 S.
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005670
2019
Martin Doevenspeck, Julian Hollstegge, Kamal Donko: Migrationskontrolle in Westafrika. In: Gabriele Obermaier (Hrsg.): Vielfältige Geographien : fachliche und kulturelle Diversität im Unterricht nutzbar machen. - Bayreuth : Verlag Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Bayreuth e.V., 2019. - S. 37-48.
2018
Kamal Donko, Martin Doevenspeck: Néo-toponymes dans les zones de colonisation agricole du centre-Bénin : enjeux spatio-politiques. In: Annales de la FASHS : Nouvelle Édition, 1 (2018). - S. 4-25.
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography
Dr. Kamal Donko
Researcher at LASDEL Benin
02BP1413 Dokparou-Est, Parakou (Republic of Benin)
Telefon: 49 (0) 921 / 55-7892
E-Mail: kamal.donko@uni-bayreth.de