Other research areas (past and present) include:

• Unauthorized maritime migration from Senegal, West Africa, to the Canary Islands, Spain.
• Migrant decision-making. Focus on the concept of risk-taking as part of the decision to migrate through dangerous, unauthorised routes.
• European approaches to migration control.

Education:

2008: MPhil in Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies.
University of Tromsø, Norway.

2006: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociocultural Anthropology and International Development Studies (Joint Honours).
McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

2002: International Baccalaureate (IB).
Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Working experience:

2009 - present: Researcher, PRIO

2008 - 2009: Research Assistant, PRIO.

2008 and 2009: Assistant Coordinator for the Peace Research course at the International Summer School (ISS) of the University of Oslo.

June-December 2006: Research Assistant at the International Center for Migration and Health (ICMH), Geneva, Switzerland.

Languages:

Spanish (mother tongue), English, French, Norwegian, Wolof (conversational).