Articles by Zoé Perko

September 12, 2025

Free movement in the Global South: beyond the border line

Zoé Perko

We tend to regard free movement as a legal and institutional achievement, but this view overlooks the lived realities in the Global South. Drawing on research in West Africa and South America, Zoé Perko shows how informal practices and historical networks redefine how ‘free movement’ really works

Zoé Perko

Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Zoe currently conducts research in the CRC1265 project The Borders of the World II: Conflicts and Tensions in the Formation of Macro-Territorial Borders on border and migration regimes in regional integration projects.

Her research interests include borders, migration, and regional integration.

Zoe has published research in Regional Studies, Regional Science journal, co-authored a chapter in the edited volume Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces (Routledge, 2025), and contributed to the Open Access title Figuring Out Spaces: On the Sociality of Spaces and the Spatiality of the Social, published on Transcript.

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