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Authored Books

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2024) After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania. London: Bloomsbury.

Book Chapters

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2025) 'Europeanisation, border violence, counterinsurgency: Expanded geographies and reconnected histories across the Sahelo-Sahara and the Mediterranean.' In: Aparna, Kolar, Krivonos, Daria and Pascucci, Elisa, (eds.), Europeanisation as violence: Souths and Easts as method. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 51-67.

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2024) 'EU border externalisation and uneven development in West Africa.' In: Bosworth, Mary, Franko, Katja, Lee, Maggie and Mehta, Rimple, (eds.), Handbook on Border Criminology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 205-219.

Journal Article

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2024) 'The constitutive outside: EU border externalisation, regional histories, and social dynamics in the Senegal River Valley.' Geoforum, 155 (103632).

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2023) 'Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania.' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41 (1). pp. 56-73.

Ould Moctar, Hassan and Porges, Matthew (2022) 'Saharan Imaginaries: An Introduction.' L’Ouest Saharien, 17 (2). pp. 13-19.

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2022) 'Saharan Sediment: Nation formation, urban development, and alter-imaginaries in the desert of Mauritania.' L’Ouest Saharien, 17 (2). pp. 67-90.

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2020) 'The proximity of the past in Mauritania: EU border externalisation and its colonial antecedents.' Anthropologie et développement (51). pp. 51-67.

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2019) 'Urban Informality and the Boundaries of Belonging: Notes on Ethnicity, Nationality and Class in Nouakchott, Mauritania.' Movements: Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, 4 (2). pp. 201-224.

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2017) 'Whither the rights of the digital subject?' The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, 10 (2016-2017). pp. 111-115.

Monographs and Working Papers

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2024) The EU-Mauritania Partnership: Whose Priorities? Brussels: European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Working Paper no. 21.

Book Reviews

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2021) 'Review of: Migration and political theory: by Gillian Brock, Cambridge, Polity Books, 2020, 218pp., £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1509535231.' Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45 (8). pp. 1604-1606.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2024) In Mauritania, Ghazouani’s Easy Victory Obscures Major Political Shifts. World Politics Review [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2024) Hors Camp. Sidecar: New Left Review Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2024) The EU-Mauritania migration deal is destined to fail. Al-Jazeera English [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ould Moctar, Hassan (2019) Hunter and Prey in a Mauritanian Cafe. SOAS Development Studies Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]