Photo courtesy of Hassan Old Moctar Hassan Ould Moctar
Hassan Ould Moctar is a Lecturer in the Anthropology of Migration at SOAS, University of London. He holds a PhD in Development Studies which he obtained from SOAS and has held fellowships in SOAS and the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on the relationship between migration, borders, and development processes, with a regional focus on Mauritania, the West African Sahel, and the Sahara. He is the author of After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania, which is available open access with Bloomsbury Publishers.