Dr Abdoul Aziz Dieng is a Senegalese-born, UK-based Senegal Country Expert and Sociolinguistic Consultant specialising in Senegalese language, culture, migration, diaspora identity and multilingual practices. His doctoral research focused on Senegalese transmigrants and their cultural and language practices and is the author of Urban Wolof across Borders: Translanguaging while Transmigrating (2024, Palgrave).
His expertise is particularly relevant to asylum and immigration matters involving Senegal, including Wolof and Fula/Pulaar language issues, cultural plausibility, family and community dynamics, migration histories, diaspora experience, reintegration, and the interpretation of Senegalese social and linguistic practices. He is also NRPSI-registered and a full member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
Dr Abdoul Aziz Dieng’s country expertise focuses primarily on Senegal, with additional regional expertise on The Gambia where relevant to Senegambian language, culture, migration and cross-border social practices. He is Senegalese-born and UK-based, with specialist knowledge of Senegalese society, multilingualism, family and community structures, migration histories, diaspora experience and the cultural contexts in which UK asylum, human rights and immigration claims may arise.
He can assist legal representatives with Senegal-related matters involving cultural plausibility, language and identity issues, Wolof and Fula/Pulaar-speaking applicants, family or community dynamics, social belonging, return and reintegration, and the interpretation of Senegalese cultural and linguistic practices within asylum and immigration evidence. His expertise is particularly relevant where case facts require careful assessment of local context, language use, social norms, migration background or diaspora-linked experience.
Dr Abdoul Aziz Dieng is currently developing his independent country expert practice and is available to accept instructions in Senegal-related asylum, human rights and immigration matters. His relevant experience includes doctoral research on Senegalese transmigrants and their cultural and language practices, published academic work on Urban Wolof and Senegalese diaspora experience, and professional work across legal, asylum, immigration, public-service interpreting and specialist translation contexts.
Although he is newly entering independent expert report writing, his background provides strong country-specific, linguistic and cultural expertise relevant to UK immigration practice. He can assist solicitors with issues involving cultural plausibility, language and identity, Wolof and Fula/Pulaar-speaking applicants, family and community dynamics, migration histories, return and reintegration, and the interpretation of Senegalese social and linguistic practices. Reports will be prepared independently, on a source-based basis, and within his stated areas of expertise.
Book: Dieng, A. A. (2024). Urban Wolof across Borders: Translanguaging while Transmigrating. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57812-0
Article: Dieng, A. A. (2022). Research Methodologies in Urban Wolof Studies: A Critical Review of the Literature and Suggestion for New Analytical Perspectives. European Scientific Journal. https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2022.v18n20p22
Conference paper (Oct 20, 2023). Guest speaker - African Languages Day University of Salamanca, Spain. Presented on transmigration and translanguaging ahead of publication of Urban Wolof across Borders.
Conference paper (May 10, 2019). Language in Africa international conference University of Portsmouth, UK. Presented research on Urban Wolof among Senegalese diasporans, including urban diasporicity, translanguaging and transmigration.