Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research areas
Primary research areas
Hans Lucht’s research focuses on undocumented migration from Africa to Europe via North Africa. Lucht’s core interests include migrant sending communities in West Africa; West African connection men and the organization of clandestine routes to Europe; high-risk migration on the Mediterranean Sea and in the Sahara Desert; migrant lives in post-Gaddafi Libya; migration related deaths and the ramifications in Europe and in Africa; undocumented migrant lives in Southern Europe; European migration policies; global, social and existential anthropology. Hans Lucht’s work is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, Niger, Libya, Italy, and Greece.
Current research
Hans Lucht is heading the research project, ‘Borderwork - An Ethnographic Study of Migrants, Brokers and European Border Governance in West Africa’ (2018–2021). Focusing on West Africa, this project explores competing notions of borderwork in the expanded EU-African borderlands in a time when safe and legal mobility is limited and human, social, and political conditions of migrants are severely challenged.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Research output
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Distressed: Migrant underworlds and travels in hyporeality
Lucht, H., 1 Aug 2024, In: Anthropological Theory.Research output: Articles: Journal and Newspaper › Journal Article › Research › peer-review
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Vores liv ryster
Translated title of the contribution :Our Lives Are Shaking Research output: Book, Anthology, Thesis, Report › Book › Communication
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The long shadow of the border: Migrants, brokers and European border governance in Africa
Vammen, I. M. S. (Editor), Cold-Ravnkilde, S. M. (Editor) & Lucht, H. (Editor), 19 Jun 2023, Copenhagen: Routledge. 194 p. (Routledge: Special Issues as Books).Research output: Book, Anthology, Thesis, Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Counter-piracy in the Gulf of Guinea must not overlook local struggle and suffering
Lucht, H., 19 Dec 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief, Vol. 2023).Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned
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Darkness before daybreak: African migrants living on the margins in Southern Italy today
Lucht, H., 2012, Berkeley: University of California Press. 284 p.Research output: Book, Anthology, Thesis, Report › Book › Research
Activities
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Roundtable meeting w. Polish Embassy and expert from OSW to discuss Polen, Ukraine and Denmark's engagement
Banke, C. F. S. (Speaker), Surwillo, I. (Speaker), Olesen, M. R. (Speaker), Larsen, K. P. (Speaker), Schmidt, J. L. (Speaker) & Lucht, H. (Speaker)
18 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or Presentation › Briefing
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African Migration Governance:
Vammen, I. M. S. (Participant) & Lucht, H. (Participant)
2 Dec 2024 → 3 Dec 2024Activity: Participating in or Organising an Event › Participation in or Organisation of Conference
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“Everything Goes to Tripoli and for the South, There's Nothing”. EU Migration Externalization and Grievances in a Marginalized Southern Libya
Lucht, H. (Speaker)
2 Dec 2024 → 3 Dec 2024Activity: Talk or Presentation › Presentation/Speaker at conference, seminar, workshop etc.
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Vores liv ryster: Vestafrikansk irregulær migration til Europa
Lucht, H. (Speaker)
29 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or Presentation › Presentation/Speaker at conference, seminar, workshop etc.
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Niger, Russia and Militant Jihadism
Lucht, H. (Speaker) & Cold-Ravnkilde, S. M. (Speaker)
25 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or Presentation › Briefing
Projects
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Effects of Externalisation
Talleraas, C. (PI), Vammen, I. M. S. (CoI) & Lucht, H. (CoI)
01/11/2020 → 01/12/2024
Project: Research
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FSPS 2019 After the crisis: European Migration and security policy in the Sahel region
Cold-Ravnkilde, S. M. (PI), Nissen, C. (CoI) & Lucht, H. (CoI)
01/04/2019 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research
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FSPS: Chinese Activities in Greenland
Lucht, H. (PI) & Jiang, Y. (CoI)
01/09/2018 → 01/12/2018
Project: Research
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Border Work. An Ethnographic Study of Migrants, Brokers, and European Border Governance in West Africa
Lucht, H. (PI), Cold-Ravnkilde, S. M. (CoI) & Vammen, I. M. S. (CoI)
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2021
Project: Research
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The Sahel-Maghreb Research Platform
Boserup, R. A. (PI), Martinez, L. (PI), Cold-Ravnkilde, S. M. (CoI) & Lucht, H. (CoI)
01/11/2016 → 31/12/2017
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Trumps migrationspolitik er brutal i USA, men normal i Europa
24/01/2025
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Europas migrationsbarrikade smuldrer i Niger
20/01/2025
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Kirkelige arrangementer i den kommende uge I find flere arrangementer på Kirke.dk/kalender
13/01/2025
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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To gange har dommere trukket i bremsen - nu er storstilede asylplaner stillet i bero
17/11/2024 → 18/11/2024
2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Udlændingedebatten er blusset op igen i Europa, og nu skubber de tunge kræfter på for stramninger
05/10/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Prizes
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2012 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award for Darkness before Daybreak
Lucht, H. (Recipient), 15 Nov 2012
Prize: Prizes, Scholarships, Distinctions
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Darkeness before Daybreak Nominated to SEA Book Award
Lucht, H. (Recipient), 9 Nov 2011
Prize: Prizes, Scholarships, Distinctions