Airport ethnography: researching exit and entry controls at the airport in Douala, Cameroon – Fieldwork by Maybrit Jill Alpes (Nov. 2013-Jan. 2014)

From November 2013 to the end of January 2014, my life was to a large determined by the arrival and departure times of Air France flights into the main international airport of Douala in Cameroon. Airports have rhythms and for three months I danced according to the tunes of the work shifts of the Cameroonian police, the constraints of private security staff, and the routines of the French policeman on patrol at the airport.

Douala Airport

Douala Airport

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