Episode 41: Mauritania at Europe’s Frontier w/ Hassan Ould Moctar
Hassan Ould Moctar joins us to discuss Europe’s externalized border regime, the colonial history of race and territory in Mauritania, and how migration control, counterinsurgency, and development policy have fused across the Sahel.
Works mentioned: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania.
Hassan Ould Moctar is a Fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, University of Tunis and former lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on the relationship between migration, borders…
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