List of speakers

Mireille Paquet is a poli­tical scien­tist and asso­ciate professor at Concordia Univer­sity in Montreal, Canada. She researches immi­gra­tion poli­tics and policy in Canada and in other coun­tries. She manages the Cana­dian Sanc­tuary Cities Research projet, funded by the Buil­ding Migrant Resi­lience in Cities (BMRC). 

Thomas Lacroix is a geogra­pher at CNRS (Migrinter), actually affi­liated to the Maison Fran­çaise d’Oxford. He researches trans­na­tio­na­lism, inte­gra­tion and deve­lop­ment. Currently, his research focuses on local gover­nance of inter­na­tional migra­tion. He is a fellow at the CIMigration. 

Béné­dicte Michalon is a geogra­pher at CNRS (Passages). She studies migra­tion and deten­tion prac­tices. Her research focuses on control devices of migra­tion and their effect on the migrant expe­riences. She is a fellow at CIMi­gra­tion. She manages with Thomas Lacroix the LOCALAAC project, funded by the CIMi­gra­tion on urban and rural commu­ni­ties dealing with the welco­ming of migrants. 

Cyrille Hanappe is an archi­tect and lecturer at École Natio­nale Supé­rieure d’Architecture Paris-Belle­ville. He is also the founder of the asso­cia­tion Actes & Cités and asso­ciated to the AIR Archi­tec­ture office. His research deals with urba­nism and archi­tec­ture of welco­ming cities. He is a fellow at the CIMigration. 

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Michel Agier is an anthro­po­lo­gist at IRD & EHESS. His research deals with the rela­tions between human globa­li­za­tion, condi­tions and places of exile and forma­tion of new urban contexts. He is the scien­tific director of the POLICY depart­ment at CIMigration.

Lori Hunter is Professor of Socio­logy at the Univer­sity of Colo­rado Boulder where she is also Director of the CU Popu­la­tion Center in the Insti­tute of Beha­vioral Science. She is an envi­ron­mental demo­gra­pher studying migra­tion-envi­ron­ment connec­tions inclu­ding related to Mexico‑U.S. migra­tion, as well as in rural South Africa. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Board on Envi­ron­ment and Society, and served as Editor-in-Chief for the subdiscipline’s flag­ship journal, Popu­la­tion and Envi­ron­ment, for 10 years.

Flore Gubert is a resear­cher at the Insti­tute of Research for Deve­lop­ment (IRD) and Asso­ciate member of Paris school of Econo­mics. She obtained a PhD in Econo­mics from the Univer­sity of Cler­mont-Ferrand. Part of her research focuses on migra­tion in West Africa. She is currently involved in two projects on climate change and migra­tion (HABITABLE) and irre­gular migra­tion in The Gambia (INFOMIGTRAIN). She is also Vice President of the Execu­tive Board of the Fonda­tion Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH). 

Päivi Lujala (PhD in Econo­mics, Norwe­gian Univer­sity of Science and Tech­no­logy, 2008) is Professor of Geography and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Univer­sity of Oulu, Finland. Her research focuses on two broad topics : mana­ge­ment of valuable natural resources in the Global South and adap­tion to climate (change) related natural hazards. Her current research on climate change focuses on climate migra­tion in the Global South and commu­nity resi­lience in Norway. 

Katrin Millock is Senior Research Fellow in econo­mics of the French National Center for Scien­tific Research (CNRS) and Asso­ciate Professor at Paris School of Econo­mics. She obtained her PhD from the Univer­sity of Cali­fornia, Berkeley, and is a specia­list in envi­ron­mental and resource econo­mics. Her research has been devoted to evalua­ting the effects of air pollu­tion taxes and her current research is centered on climate change and deve­lop­ment, in parti­cular climate-induced migration.

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Lisa Chauvet is Professor of econo­mics at the Univer­sity of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne affi­liated with the Centre d’Eco­nomie de la Sorbonne (CES). Her research focuses on deve­lop­ment econo­mics and migra­tion. She is co-editor of the Revue d’Eco­nomie du Déve­lop­pe­ment and of the Journal of Deve­lop­ment Studies, and director of the DYNAMICS depart­ment of the Institut Conver­gence Migrations.

Eric Jennings is Distin­gui­shed Professor in the history of France and the Fran­co­phone World at the Univer­sity of Toronto (Canada). He is a specia­list in the fields of modern French colo­nial history. His books include Vichy in the Tropics(Stan­ford Univer­sity Press, 2001), Curing the Colo­ni­zers (Duke Univer­sity Press, 2001), Impe­rial Heights (Univer­sity of Cali­fornia Press, 2011), Free French Africa in World War II (Cambridge Univer­sity Press, 2015), and Escape from Vichy : the Refugee Exodus to the French Carib­bean (Harvard Univer­sity Press, 2018).

Céline Flory is a histo­rian chargée de recherche at CNRS, and a member of the American Worlds research center, housed at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and of the Inter­na­tional Center for the Study of Slavery and Post-Slavery (CIRESC). Her research focuses on inden­ture and post-slavery Carib­bean, more preci­sely on the social and cultural trajec­tory of African, Indian and Chinese engagés and their descen­dants. Her book, De l’esclavage à la Liberté Forcée. Histoire des travailleurs afri­cains engagés dans la Caraïbe fran­çaise du XIX^e siècle (Karthala, 2015 has been granted the Fetkann – Maryse Condé 2015 Research Award.

Emma­nuel Blan­chard is an asso­ciated professor in poli­tical science at the Univer­sity of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He is a specia­list of law enfor­ce­ment in France and its colony, in parti­cular in Algeria. He authored La police pari­sienne et les Algé­riens, 1944–1962 (Nouveau Monde, 2011) and Histoire de l’immigration algé­rienne en France (La Décou­verte, 2018) and co-edited with Marieke Bloem­bergen and Aman­dine Lauro Poli­cing Empires. Social Control, Poli­tical Tran­si­tion, Post­co­lo­nial Lega­cies (Peter Lang, 2017).

Romy Sánchez is a histo­rian chargée de recherche at CNRS, and a member of the Institut de Recherches Histo­riques du Septen­trion (Lille). She is a former member of the Ecole Normale Supé­rieure of Lyon and of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Ibériques et Hispa­niques (EHEHI) – Casa de Veláz­quez, in Madrid. Her research focuses on poli­tical circu­la­tions between Cuba, Spain, the US and the wider Carib­bean during the long XIXth century, with a special interest in exiles. She edited, with Jeanne Moisand, Delphine Diaz and Juan-Luis Simal, Exils entre les deux mondes : migra­tions et espaces poli­tiques atlan­tiques (Les Perséides, 2015) and Dans l’intimité de l’exil (Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle, 2020).

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Claire Zalc is a CNRS research director at CNRS and a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, France). She is prin­cipal inves­ti­gator of the ERC Conso­li­dator LUBARTWORLD project. She has written on topics as various as immi­gra­tion, the history of perse­cu­tions, Jews, busi­ness and credit. Her publi­ca­tions include Melting Shops : une histoire des commer­çants étran­gers en France (Perrin, 2010) and Déna­tu­ra­lisés. Les retraits de natio­na­lité sous Vichy (Seuil, 2016).

James Nazroo is a former hospital doctor and a Professor of Socio­logy at the Univer­sity of Manchester, UK. He is Foun­ding and Deputy Director of the Centre on the Dyna­mics of Ethni­city (CoDE, ethni​city​.ac​.uk) and co-Director of the Synergi Colla­bo­ra­tive Centre (syner​gi​col​la​bo​ra​ti​ve​centre​.co​.uk). His main area of research concerns ethnic inequa­li­ties in health.

Mathieu Ichou is a research fellow at Ined where he is co-head of the Inter­na­tional Migra­tions and Mino­ri­ties Unit and a member of the Economic Demo­graphy Unit. He is also an asso­ciate resear­cher at the Obser­va­toire Socio­lo­gique du Chan­ge­ment (OSC), Sciences Po, and a fellow of the French Colla­bo­ra­tive Insti­tute on Migra­tions. He is co-inves­ti­gator of the TeO2 survey and coor­di­nates the ANR 3GEN project on social mobi­lity across three gene­ra­tions in native and immi­grant families.

Pris­cille Sauve­grain is a midwife at the La Pitié Salpê­trière mater­nity, Paris, and a resear­cher in Public health in the EPOPé team, Inserm. Her areas of research, based on socio­lo­gical approaches, are immi­grant women’ perinatal health in France and the quality of heal­th­care they receive. She also chairs the scien­tific committee of the Collège National des sages-femmes de France and is a member of the Institut Conver­gences Migrations.

Fran­cesca Sirna is a research fellow at the CNRS, at the Centre Norbert Elias (EHESS-AMU-CNRS), Marseille, and she is also a fellow at the Institut Conver­gences Migra­tions. Her main research topics are the migra­tions of heal­th­care profes­sio­nals, gender rela­tions as well as trans­na­tional families.

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Mirna Safi is Asso­ciate Professor at Sciences Po and Head of Obser­va­toire Socio­lo­gique du Chan­ge­ment (OSC). She is inter­ested in immi­gra­tion, ethnic and racial inequa­lity, discri­mi­na­tion and segre­ga­tion. Her current research focuses on impact of immi­gra­tion on ethno­ra­cial stra­ti­fi­ca­tion in the French society, anti-discri­mi­na­tion poli­cies at the work­place, ethnic mino­rity, resi­den­tial mobi­lity and loca­tional choice. She recently publi­shed Migra­tion and Inequa­lity (Polity Press, 2020).

Sarah Mazouz is a socio­lo­gist, resear­cher at CNRS (Ceraps). She is inter­ested in anti­dis­cri­mi­na­tion, citi­zen­ship and nation­hood poli­cies, racia­li­za­tion and inter­sec­tio­na­lity. Her current research focuses on the forma­li­za­tion of the race ques­tion in France and other Euro­pean coun­tries, as well as on white­ness. She recently publi­shed Race (Anamosa, 2020).

Tomás Jiménez is Professor of Socio­logy and Compa­ra­tive Studies in Race and Ethni­city at Stan­ford Univer­sity. He is also Director of the Under­gra­duate Program on Urban Studies. His research and writing focus on immi­gra­tion, assi­mi­la­tion, social mobi­lity, and ethnic and racial iden­tity. His latest book is The Other Side of Assi­mi­la­tion : How Immi­grants are Chan­ging American Life (Univer­sity of Cali­fornia Press, 2017).

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Patrick Simon is Director of research at INED and is fellow resear­cher at the Obser­va­toire Socio­lo­gique du Chan­ge­ment (OSC) at Sciences Po. He is studying anti­dis­cri­mi­na­tion poli­cies, ethnic clas­si­fi­ca­tion and the inte­gra­tion of ethnic mino­ri­ties in Euro­pean coun­tries. He is chai­ring the depart­ment INTEGER of the Colla­bo­ra­tive Insti­tute on Migra­tion, and is a member of the Advi­sory board of the NCCR program “On the Move” in Swit­zer­land and of the Wissen­shafts­zen­trum Berlin für Sozialforschung.