With aPhD in Social Policy from the University of Bristol in the UK, I have been working for several years on the determinants and effects of international migration in countries of origin, in the Maghreb and in West Africa. I am particularly interested in the links between migration, development and gender relations.
My thesis work, based on the analysis of socio-demographic survey data and fieldwork carried out in a locality in the Souss-Massa-Drâa region, focused on the effects of migration and remittances on the empowerment of Moroccan migrant wives left behind. This research led to several publications. I then coordinated a survey on return migration to Senegal, as part of the European TEMPER (Temporary vs Permanent Migration) project, as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut national d'études démographiques (Ined), then assisted Pr Héran as a research engineer at the Chair. I am currently working on the MIGCHOICE project, coordinated by the University of Birmingham in the UK, which aims to understand how development interventions in countries of origin can affect the aspirations, decisions and mobilities of populations in West Africa, and more specifically in Gambia, Guinea and Senegal.
