Project Members of the Subproject 1
Efeutlancha forji Angelus
Second-year MSc Student in Argibusiness Project Management at the College of Technology, University of Bamenda (Cameroon)
Roland Balgah
Roland Azibo Balgah is Associate Professor of Development Studies in the College of Technology at the University of Bamenda. He holds a PhD from the Martin Luther University, Halle - Salle (Germany). His research focuses on the interphase between context-specific vulnerabilities and their multifaceted effects on agriculture, poverty reduction, livelihoods and sustainable development. He has successfully completed three postdoctoral Fellowships with the Volkswagen Foundation, and has published widely in the fields of agricultural development, technology adoption, rural poverty, (non)migration and sustainable livelihoods.
Nembot Kengne Elie
Second-year MSc Student in Argibusiness Project Management at the College of Technology, University of Bamenda (Cameroon)
Michaela Pelican (Cluster Director)
Michaela Pelican is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. She is also the speaker and coordinator of the international research unit “The production and reproduction of social inequalities: Global contexts and concepts of labour exploitation,” PI in the DFG research unit FOR 5183 “Transborder Mobility and Institutional Dynamics,” and board member of the Global South Studies Center Cologne (GSSC). Previously, she was a guest professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) at Universität Kyoto (2011), a researcher with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale (2000-2006), and a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Kent (2003). She received her PhD from the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
Michaela’s research and teaching interests include ethnicity, conflict, South-South migration, social inequalities and research methodology. She has conducted research in Cameroon, China, Gabon, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. Her work has been published with leading publishers and journals in anthropology and migration studies, including African Study Monographs, American Ethnologist, Anthropology Today, Berghahn, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Migration and Development, Transcript, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie.
Melanie Simons
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