Paolo Gaibazzi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna. He has previously been Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Senior Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, and Lecturer of Anthropology at the University of Latvia. He is the author of Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa (Berghahn 2015), an ethnography of immobility and social reproduction in rural Gambia. He has subsequently worked on West African Muslim traders in Angola, and on Europe’s externalized border management in Africa. On the latter topic, he has co-edited EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management (Palgrave 2017). In addition to regimes of im/mobility, Gaibazzi has published extensively on post-slavery and on economies of fate, fortune and potentiality in West Africa.