Puig Cepero, Oriol
PUIG CEPERO, ORIOL
Oriol Puig currently works as a specialist migration officer in the Global Justice and International Cooperation Department of Barcelona City Council. Previously, he worked as a specialist officer responsible for sub-Saharan Africa in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Government of Catalonia. He is a research associate at GRITIM-UPF and also an associate professor at the Open University of Catalonia, where he teaches on globalisation, post-colonialism, interculturality and migration. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Barcelona and was awarded the 2017 Extraordinary Doctorate Prize. He also has a degree in journalism and throughout his career has led projects on cooperation, social change and narratives on Africa and migration, as well as working as a consultant for international organisms and organisations in the field of human mobility, climate change and migration governance.
Main research interests:
- Intra-African and trans-Saharan migration
- Circular and return migration
- Identities in the context of mobility
- Externalisation of borders
- Climate change and mobility
- Post-colonialism and migration
Publications:
Reports
(2021): Climate change, conflict and migration in the central Sahel, H2020 CASCADES project
Books and chapters
(To be published): The Saharan desert, the other border, Barcelona: Bellaterra.
(2021): El Sahel: cambio climático, conflicto y migraciones, in Africaye, Brújulas sobre África. Miradas para desaprender la region Subsahariana, Madrid: Catarata
(2020): The Nigerien migrants in Kadhafi’s Libya: between invisibility and visibility, in Bjarnesen, Jesper and Turner, Simon, Invisibility in African displacements, London: Zed Books
(2019), El Sahel: movilidades y fronteras, in Santamaría, Antonio, Tradición y modernidad en África, Madrid: Catarata.
Journal articles
(2025, to be published, accepted) A climate of migration in the Sahel: between mobility and immobility. Revista Vegueta.
(2025, to be published) El Sahel: cambio climático y migraciones, en Lacomba, J. Cambio Climático y Migraciones. Tirant lo blanch.
(2024) Mobilités transsahariennes : retours, frontières et xénophobie . Ouvrage collectif. Éditions du Croquant..
(2025) The central Sahel: climate change, migration and conflict. Revista de Estudios Globalees. Anaálisis histórico y social. https://revistas.um.es/reg/article/view/651821
(2024) Expulsions from Algeria to Niger: a postcolonial approach to IOM-assisted "voluntary" retorns. EuroMedMig Working Papers. https://repositori.upf.edu/items/230e5562-a4a8-401e-abca-6a4a8fdf1629
(Under review): Baba Libye, les retournés nigériens de Libye: transferts sociaux et translocalité, Migrations et sociétés
(2018): La Unión Europea en Níger y los nigerinos en Europa: migraciones y fronteras, Nova África, Barcelona.
(2017): Approche ethnographique du collectif des nigériens rentrés de Libye à Niamey: Entre la réintégration et la ré émigration. Quaderns ICA
Monograph and reports
(2019): El Sahel de las gentes: más allá del síndrome de la seguridad, CIDOB [online] https://www.cidob.org/publicaciones/serie_de_publicacion/monografias/monografias/el_sahel_de_las_gentes_mas_alla_del_sindrome_de_la_seguridad
(2019): Níger: gendarme de Europa, Intermón Oxfam [online] https://www.oxfamintermon.org/es/actualidad
Media, policy briefs and informative publications (selection)
(2020): The Sahel: Europe’s other border, CIDOB International Notes.
(2019): Europe’s invisible border. Euractiv. Online: https://www.euractiv.com/section/africa/news/europes-invisible-new-border/
(2019): Las llaves de Europa, Eldiario, 3 of November. Online. https://especiales.eldiario.es/llaves-de-europa/
(2016): Niger, another outpost of Fortress Europe, Euractiv. Online: https://www.euractiv.com/authors/oriol-puig/
(2015): La otra cara de Lampedusa. Planeta futuro, El País, 13 of September. Online: http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/12/planeta_futuro/1447341159_373809.html