Presentation

My research lies at the crossroads of the sociology of international migration, the sociology of the family, the socio-anthropology of law, and the study of the reception of public action by individual citizens. They focus on lived citizenship, uses of migration law and social rights, informal learning and its materiality.

Using an intersectional and comparative approach, attentive to the interweaving of micro-, meso- and macro-social scales, I explore these themes by studying the transformations of the migrant family (binational and mixed couples, transnational families constrained by the migration regime, asylum-seeking families and family reunification, unaccompanied minors, etc.).) ; the social and political-institutional mechanisms that stigmatize and make vulnerable migrants and their families ; and the legal intermediation practices deployed by volunteers and salaried employees of associations, social workers, lawyers, peers, etc.., experts or laymen, in situ or online on social networks.

Since 2023, I've been involved in the research-evaluation of the Cités éducatives scheme - an institutional initiative that aims to support educational actions in priority urban policy districts through close collaboration between prefecture, municipality, national education and third sector. In this context, in the Val-d'Oise département, I'm exploring the actions labeled " citoyenneté ", particularly those aimed at immigrant and new immigrant families and their children. This research is carried out by the École, Mutations, Apprentissages (EMA) laboratory, with which I am associated as a contract lecturer at Cergy Paris Université.

More recently, I have also begun to look at the effects of environmental change on migratory routes, the reconfiguration of family ties and the maintenance of translocal relationships for people on the move from North Africa.

Current responsibilities

  • Contract lecturer at Cergy Paris Université, attached to the EMA laboratory
  • Associate researcher at the Unité de Recherches Migrations and Societies (Urmis-Paris) and at the Centre méditerranéen de sociologie, de science politique et d'histoire (Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille Univ and IEP Aix-en-Provence)
  • Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations
  • Member of LMI MOVIDA, IRD
  • Coordinator of the PHC Tournesol France-Flanders project Investigating Separated Families: Towards a Transnational Analysis of Policies, Bureaucracy and Everyday Life (Collaboration Campus France et Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO) - Collège de France and University of Antwerp), 2024-2026
  • Board member ofResearch CommitteeRC25 Language and Society, International Sociological Association
  • Board member, Research Network RN35 Sociology of Migration, European Sociological Association
  • Board member, Réseau Thématique RT2 Migrations, Altérité et Internationalisation, Association française de sociologie
  • Scientific collaborator, Research Group on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (Germe), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Member of Structure de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le genre, l'égalité et la sexualité (Striges), Maison des sciences de l'homme, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Member of GT Inégalités, Cosav Migrations et Climat, IRD, France
  • Member of the Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy)project , COST EU Action
  • Member of the expert committee of the Observatoire d'ISM interprétariat, Paris (since 2022)
  • Member of the scientific committee of the collection Transitions sociales et résistances, Academia-Harmattan

Recent publications

Editing of thematic journal issues

  • Intermediating access - migrants, rights and statuses, Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa (with P. Bonizzoni), 2/2024.
  • Intimités en tension, L'Année du Maghreb, 29, 2023 (ed. with M. de Giacometti and M. Breteau).
  • Doing family Online: (In)formal knowledge circulation, information-seeking practices and support communities, Family Relations, 72 (2), 2023 (ed. with K. Geoffrion).

Articles

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