Temitope Famodu

Visiting Scholar

Temitope Famodu is a doctoral candidate in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and a 2024–25 Fulbright US Scholar to Hungary. Their research explores the political economy of African student migration to post-socialist geographies, focusing on contemporary Nigerian students in Hungary. Using ethnographic and archival methods, they examine the embodied experiences of students navigating race, identity, and placemaking as well as the bilateral state and institutional infrastructures that facilitate this mobility.

Participating Years

2025–2026

Mobility: Transit and Transformation

Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.