Sovereignty claims and contested readmission agreements in Mali

Guest post by Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde. Signe is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) interested in the politics of security, migration and development, in particular in the Sahel region of West Africa. Signe is part of the collaborative research project Borderwork: Migrants, Brokers and European Border Governance in West Africa, based at DIIS. This post is featured as part of a Themed Week on Border Externalisation in Africa. It draws on Signe’s recently published article in Geopolitics, Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali, which will be free to access for the next month, as part of a collaboration between Border Criminologies and Geopolitics that seeks to promote open access platforms.