The solitudes of an uncertain path

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to weave links between states of loneliness and the emotions expressed by individuals who voluntarily or forcibly take the uncertain path of migration. What are their experiences of loneliness ? In what situations do migrants and refugees experience loneliness ? To what extent is it chosen ? suffered ? momentary or long-lasting ? And finally, what emotions are attached to these experiences of loneliness ? In order to answer these questions, interviews were conducted with people currently living in an Emmaus community in France. These interviews will enable us to take into account the multiple facets of loneliness by making the link with the sociology of emotions.

Cécile Vermot

Cécile Vermot is a teacher-researcher in sociology at Sup'Biotech, an engineering school. After defending her thesis on the feelings of belonging to gender and nation among Argentine migrants in Miami and Barcelona at the Université Paris Descartes and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, she became involved as a researcher and teacher at theUniversité des Patients, Sorbonne University. There, she developed research related to health, emotions and gender. Since 2019, as a teacher-researcher in the Biotechnologies in Society cluster at Sup'Biotech, she has been initiating a research project looking at the use of biotechnologies in mobility practices, taking gender and emotions into account.
She was elected to the board of the RN11 " Sociology of emotions " of the European Sociology Association. She is also a member of the GT07 working group " Emotions and society " of the Association internationale de langue française. She is also a reviewer for the journal Emotions and Society . As a fellow of the Institut Convergence Migration, she initiated an exploratory workshop on biotechnological mobilities, the body and markets. In addition, she has published articles on migrants' emotions, including editing a special issue on the subject in 2017 in the journal Migrations Société.