Judith Altrogge

Sociology

Migration and border regimes, international organizations, policies of externalization and humanitarianism, international political sociology, theories of practice, North and West Africa

  • Since August 2019 Research Associate in the project  TRANSMIT - Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration, Osnabrück University
  • Since 2017 PhD student (until 2020 University of Basel, since 2020 Osnabrück University)
  • 2017-19 Research assistant at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI) e.V. Freiburg
  • 2012-17 Project assistant at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI) e.V. Freiburg

Judith Altrogge

Foto, Judith Altrogge
© Philipp Jung

Osnabrück University
IMIS
Seminarstraße 19
49074 Osnabrück
Germany

Office: 03/124

 judith.altrogge@uni-osnabrueck.de

Journal articles and book chapters
  • Altrogge, J. (2025): Halting Deportation Through Protest at Home: The Political Remittances of Transnational Gambian Anti-Deportation Activism, in: Global Networks 25(3) (online first). Link:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.70018
  • Altrogge, J., Safouane, H., & Stier, J. (2025): Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: Accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–22. Link:  https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2500642
  • Altrogge, J., Jaw, S. M., & Gassama, F. (2024). Gender Norms and the ‘Backway’. IMIS Working Paper No. 20. University of Osnabrueck.  https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/ds-2024112911835
  • Altrogge, J. (2023): Income prospect trajectories after state-induced return from Germany to the Gambia: Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration as ‘slow deportation’, in: Sozialpolitik.ch Vol. 2/2023 – Article 2.4. Link:  https://www.sozialpolitik.ch/article/view/4477
  • Altrogge, J. (2023): Managing power-knowledge imbalances in researcher-informant relationships: Methodological and ethical considerations for longitudinal post-return research, in: A. Radziwinowiczówna (ed.): Methodological and ethical issues in researching deportability and deportation, 133–149. Link:  https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781035313112/9781035313112.xml

  • Altrogge, J. (2022): Protective Exclusion as a Postcolonial Strategy: Rethinking Deportations and Sovereignty in The Gambia, in: Security Dialogue 53(5).

  • Altrogge, J. / Zanker, F. (2019): „Political Stakes of Return: From Diaspora to Libyan Transit Returnees”, in: International Migration 57(4).
  • Zanker, F., & Altrogge, J. (2019): The Political Influence of Return: From Diaspora to Libyan Transit Returnees. International Migration, 57(4), 167–180.  https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12578
Shorter articles & reports