Henrietta Nyamnjoh

Henrietta Nyamnjoh is a PhD candidate working on migration and ICTs. Her research forms part of a larger research on Mobile Africa Revisited. Prior to her current study she conducted research amongst the Senegalese fisher migrants tracing their migration to the Canary Islands and to understand the high prevalence amongst the fishermen. The findings of this study suggest that migration is a rite of passage amongst these migrants and cultural factors plays major role as well as policies governing fishing in Senegal.

Her current research entitled “Building bridges and harnessing opportunities: ICTs and mobility amongst Pinyin and Mankon migrants in South Africa, the Netherlands and Cameroon”. The study seeks to understand migrants’ appropriation of the new Information and Communication Technologies to link home and host country and the wider migrant community. How does this change existing social structures and reconfigure new ones. And also, look at the dynamic relationship between ICTs and mobility.