Presentation

Characterized by a comparative and intersectional approach, attentive to the diversity of scales, my research lies at the crossroads of the sociology of international migration and the family, the socio-anthropology of law, and the study of the reception of public action by its individual citizens. I have been interested in family migration from a transnational perspective, in particular binational and mixed couples, in the role of legal intermediaries, whether experts or laymen, within the migration process, and in online informational and emotional support practices.

Since 2023, I have been taking part in research-evaluation of the Cités Éducatives scheme in Val-d'Oise (CE95), a French public policy aimed at priority urban policy districts, which brings together schools, the prefecture and town halls. This research is conducted by the École, Mutations, Apprentissages (EMA) laboratory, with which I am associated as a contract lecturer at Cergy Paris Université.

Since 2024, I have also been in charge of the PHC Tournesol project, " Investigating Separated Families: Towards a Transnational Analysis of Policies, Bureaucracy and Everyday Life ", a collaboration between the Collège de France/ICMigrations and the University of Antwerp (Prs M. Belloni and M. Vandenbroucke), funded by Campus France and the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) for the period 2024-2026.

My skills have recently converged with a desire to study the effects of environmental change on the aspirations and adaptability of internally and internationally mobile people and their families, also addressing issues of environmental education in Europe and 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
  • Coordinator of the PHC Tournesol France-Flanders project Investigating Separated Families: Towards a Transnational Analysis of Policies, Bureaucracy and Everyday Life (Collaboration Campus France and 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

  • Legal-administrative intermediation in the migration field. An introduction, Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, 2, 195-211. (with P. Bonizzoni)
  • Intimacy as a competence. Information seeking practices in (family) migration online support groups, Families, Relationships and Societies, 13(2), pp. 304-320.
  • Trust in Disaster Resilience, Disaster, Prevention and Management, 32(2), 2023, p. 253-67 (with E. Fornalé and M. Armiero).
  • Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis, Migration Studies, mnad011, 2023, online first.
  • The "inconfinables" or the creation of "superfluous lives" in times of crisis, Migration Letters, 19(6), 2022, p. 739-49 (with E. Fornalé).

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