Dr Amaha Senu

Lecturer in Criminology

Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

a.f.senu@swansea.ac.uk

Office - 327A
Third Floor
Keir Hardie Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8666-8025

About

Amaha Senu’s research centres maritime spaces to investigate issues of migration and mobility, security and borders, maritime security and global governance, and globalisation and crime. His teaching interests include state crimes and crimes of the powerful, globalisation and harm, critical approaches in Criminology and research methods.

He joined the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy in 2022 as a Lecturer in Criminology. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study and Associate Fellow at the Seafarers International Research Centre.

Amaha is interested in supervising research projects revolving around:

securitisation and criminalisation of migration
maritime security and crime
globalisation and harm/crime
privatisation of security/crime control
control, power/resistance, and violence in logistical networks

Areas Of Expertise

Global shipping
Globalisation
Maritime security and crime
Migration

Publications

Research Highlights

Veeren, E., Stevens, C., & Senu, A. (2024). Secrecy games, power, and resistance in global politics. Review of International Studies, 0, 1-18.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210524000275, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65868
Senu, A. (2021). Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship. In Walters, W., Heller, C. and Pezzani, L. (Ed.), Viapolitics (pp. 84-104). Duke University Press
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021599-005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60628
Senu, A. (2020). Multiple Roles and Role Conflict: Seafarers As Economic, Humanitarian and Security Actors. In Gekara, V. O. and Sampson, H. (Ed.), The World of the Seafarer. WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs, vol 9. (pp. 141-153). Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49825-2_12, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60617

All Research

Journal Articles

Veeren, E., Stevens, C., & Senu, A. (2024). Secrecy games, power, and resistance in global politics. Review of International Studies, 0, 1-18.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210524000275, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65868

Book Chapters

Senu, A. (2021). Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship. In Walters, W., Heller, C. and Pezzani, L. (Ed.), Viapolitics (pp. 84-104). Duke University Press
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021599-005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60628
Senu, A. (2020). Multiple Roles and Role Conflict: Seafarers As Economic, Humanitarian and Security Actors. In Gekara, V. O. and Sampson, H. (Ed.), The World of the Seafarer. WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs, vol 9. (pp. 141-153). Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49825-2_12, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60617
Senu, A. (2020). Migration, Seafarers and the Humanitarian-Security-Economic Regimes Complex at Sea. In Lisa Otto (Ed.), Global Challenges in Maritime Security (pp. 75-94). Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34630-0_5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60616

Supervision

Immigration Control as Revenue Regime: Mapping the Contours and Consequences. (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Sam Hanks

Taught Modules

ASC208 Research Methods in Criminology

This module develops knowledge of research methods in criminological research and the assumptions about knowledge underpinning them. It also provides the opportunity to develop research skills in practice in a pedagogic setting. Students will learn about: - The description, discussion and critical evaluation of qualitative and quantitative research methods employed in criminological research - Questionnaires, interviews, focus groups and other research methods - The way that research methodologies are applied in practice, by applying research skills practically in a pedagogic setting
ASC220 The Criminal State: International Issues

This module explores crimes of the state from an international perspective. It provides a theoretical understanding of international human rights laws as the starting point for defining the notion of state crime. It offers a critical evaluation a selection of contemporary and historical examples of state crime. These include genocide and state-sponsored violence, illegitimate and violent state interventions internationally, crimes of the state against women and marginalised groups. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL BE DISCUSSING SENSITIVE AND VERY DIFFICULT TOPICS IN THIS MODULE. HENCE, PLEASE CONTACT THE MODULE CONVENOR ANYTIME THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT TOPICS YOU MAY FIND DIFFICULT AND DISTURBING.
ASC334 Beyond Dead White Men: Decolonising Criminological Approaches

Like all other social sciences, Criminology is characterised by an ethnocentrism that often excludes non-Western scholarship. This ethnocentrism means that non-Western criminological scholarship has largely been marginalised or ignored. This course seeks to engage students in the process of problematising criminological knowledge production and incorporating marginalised perspectives. Over the course of 10 weeks, we will discuss the proposition that colonisation and the postcolonial are not simply historical events, but they are continuing. This course encourages students to theoretically interrogate the extent to which these historical origins reproduce in the discipline of Criminology ¿ through theory, method and practice ¿ an inability to conceptualise the degree to which criminal justice systems reproduce neo¿colonial relations of power.

Other Roles

Co-chair of the Research Ethics Sub-committee for the Department, Swansea University

2022 - Present

Dr Amaha Senu

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About

Areas Of Expertise

Publications

Research Highlights

All Research

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Supervision

Immigration Control as Revenue Regime: Mapping the Contours and Consequences. (current)

Taught Modules

ASC208 Research Methods in Criminology

ASC220 The Criminal State: International Issues

ASC334 Beyond Dead White Men: Decolonising Criminological Approaches

Other Roles

Co-chair of the Research Ethics Sub-committee for the Department, Swansea University