Leonie Jegen presented a draft paper entitled “Beyond the spectacle of violence: migration governance and racial capitalism in Senegal” during the 17th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations (PEC) held in Lille at Université Catholique de Lille.
In her presentation, Leonie focused on how logics of racial capitalism are renegotiated and reproduced in migration governance in Senegal in the context of entangled externalization. She argued that the representational politics of violence at the heart of migration governance are tied to the reproduction of logics of racial capitalism. Her analysis focuses on the maritime borderscapes, the positioning of the role of fisher communities in migration in official Senegalese policy documents, and their active contestation of these attributions. It builds on 45 interviews, 2 background conversations, one participant observation, as well as the analysis of official state documents.