The seminar brings together researchers working on the central themes of the project with different methodological, disciplinary and theoretical approaches. The seminar is hosted by the Policy department of the Institut Convergences Migrations in Paris. Coordinated by Giulia Scalettaris and Sara Casella Colombeau, it takes place at Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, Bâtiment de Recherche Sud, salle 1.023, usually 2PM-4 :30PM. The working languages are French and English.
Coming sessions
The program for 2025-2026 will be published soon.
Past sessions
8. Ethnographying digital practices on the move (30 June 2025)
Invited researcher: Nina Khamsy (University of Neuchâtel)
Discussant: Magnus Marsden (University of Sussex)
Article: N. Khamsy, “Mobile phones on mobile fields: co-producing knowledge about migration and violence”, Antropologia Pubblica, 8(1), 2022.
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7. The politics and practice of deporting Afghans from the EU ( 4 March 2025)
Invited researcher: Martin Sökefeld (University of München)
Discussant: Shahram Khosravi (University of Stockholm)
Article: M. Sökefeld, « Nations Rebound: German Politics of Deporting Afghans », International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 50, 91-118, 2019.
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6. Mapping migrant imaginations (27 November 2024)
Invited researcher: Maricia Fischer-Souan (SciencesPo Paris)
Discussant: Maja Sager (Lund University)
Article: M. Fischer-Souan (2024), “Belonging to the nation, belonging to Europe? Varieties of particularism and universalism in migrant identity negotiation“, Journal of Contemporary European Studies.
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5. Les enjeux des migrations transfrontalières à l’aune de l’histoire locale. Le cas de la Roya (6 June 2024)
Invited researcher: Lucie Bargel (Université Côte d’Azur)
Discussant: Daniela Trucco (Université Côte d’Azur)
Article: L. Bargel (2023), “Dans l’écheveau de la frontière. Alignements et réalignements des attachements politiques dans la Roya (XIXe-XXIe siècles)”, Politika.
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4. Countermapping the Balkan route (16 April 2024)
Invited researcher: Claudio Minca (University of Bologna)
Discussant: Sebastian Cobarrubias (ARAID foundation)
Article: C. Minca (2021), “The Game: Or, ‘the making of migration’ along the Balkan Route”. Political Geography 91, 1-11.
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3. Destination: Scandinavia. Afghan youth traveling across Europe (20 February 2024)
Invited researcher: Moa Lonning (Aarhus University)
Discussant: Francesca Meloni (King’s College London)
Article: Lønning M. 2023. “‘You hold your life in your hands until you arrive in another country’: young Afghans seeking onward mobility from Greece”, Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-21.
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2. Retracer un régime circulatoire. Concepts, méthodes, défis (7 June 2023 )
Invited researcher: Adèle Sutre (EHESS Paris)
Discussant: Camille Buat (Center for Modern Indian Studies, Université de Göttingen)
Book: A. Sutre, Géopolitique des tsiganes: Des façons d’être au monde, entre circulation et ancrages . Le Chevalier bleu, Paris, 2021.
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1.Bannir sans éloigner. Gouverner les « dublinés » en France après 2015 (7 April 2023 )
Invited researcher: Tom Montel (CRESSPA, Paris 8 University)
Discussant: Stefan Lecourant (CEMS, EHESS Paris)
Article: T. Montel, « Bannir sans éloigner. Gouverner les « dublinés » en France après 2015 ». Migrations Société, 2021(4), 95-110.