{"id":10838,"date":"2020-08-31T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10838"},"modified":"2024-09-18T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:51:15","slug":"martin-aucoin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/martin-aucoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Aucoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matriculated September 2020<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>West Africa, development, humanitarianism, international organizations, migration management<\/p>\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<p>Martin is a first-year PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology He is interested in the development and humanitarian industries in West Africa, particularly as they attempt to manage contemporary migration flows to Europe and North America. Thus far, his work focuses on how and why international organizations, specifically the International Organization for Migration, mobilize the discourse of migration \u201ccrisis\u201d and \u201cirregularity\u201d to intervene in The Gambia, the use of Wolof and Mandinka language songs, stories and multimedia to moralize these discourses, and the kinds of relationships these interventions create between the international organizations, West African governments and NGOs, and migrants themselves.<\/p>\n<h3>Awards &amp; Grants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Long-term Graduate Research in the United States Fellowship (GRUF). (Summer 2023).<\/li>\n<li>BU Department of Anthropology Summer Fieldwork Grant. (Summer 2023).<\/li>\n<li>BU GRS Summer Fellowship Grant. (Summer 2023).<\/li>\n<li>BU Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) Travel Awards. (Summer 2023).<\/li>\n<li><span>Long-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF). (awarded Spring 2023).<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Boston University Department of Anthropology Summer Fieldwork Grant. (2022).<\/li>\n<li>American Ethnological Society (AES) Summer Fieldwork Grant. (2022).<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Intensive Language Fellowship, Boston University African Studies Center. (2022).<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship, Boston University African Studies Center. (2021-2022).<\/li>\n<li>Boston University Dean\u2019s Fellowship. (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2022).<\/li>\n<li>Explorers\u2019 Club Washington Group Research Fieldwork Grant. (2019).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Aucoin, M. (2022). \u201c\u2019You can make it here!\u2019: Producing Europe\u2019s mobile borders in the New Gambia. Political Geography (97): 102641.<\/li>\n<li>Aucoin, M. and M. Fry (2015). \u201cGrowing Local Food Movements: Farmers\u2019 Markets as Nodes for Products and Community\u201d. The Geographic Bulletin 56: 61-78.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Book Reviews<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Aucoin, M. (2022). \u201cHanna Hor\u00e1kov\u00e1, Stephanie Rudwick, and Martin Schmiedl, eds. Africa on the Move: Shifting Identities, Histories, Boundaries. Zurich: LIT Verlag, 2020.\u201d African Studies Review, 1-3.<\/li>\n<li>Aucoin, M. (2019). \u201cSmuggling and Sovereignty: Individual agencies within the structures of human smuggling and enforcement in the Mediterranean\u201d. Review of The Gray Zone by Feldman, G., 2019; and Human Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean by Baird, T., 2016. Geopolitics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9123,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15894,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10838\/revisions\/15894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}