hélène.thiollet
Hélène Thiollet is a CNRS permanent researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po. She is a graduate of Ecole normale supérieure (Ulm A/L98), holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po, MA degrees in Geography and in Classics from La Sorbonne. She was previously a post-doc at Oxford university and a Teaching Fellow at Université Paris Nord.
Helene's main interests lie in the politics of migration and asylum in the Global South. She focuses her empirical work on the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. She also works on crises and political transformations linked to migration and asylum. She teaches international relations, comparative politics and migration studies at Sciences Po and EHESS.
She is a board member of Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, de Migration Politics et de PARISS (Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences) and member of the advisory board of Journal of Refugee Studies.
2024. Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”. with Savatic, F., Mesnard, A., Senne, J.-N., & Jaulin, T., International Migration Review, 0(0). DOI: 10.1177/01979183231222169
2024. Migration Politics across the World. edited with Katharina Natte (eds), Routledge, ISBN 9781032601168, 166 p.
2023. Immigration rentier states. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2269783
2023. "Migration as Crisis". with Céline Cantat & Antoine Pécoud, American Behavioral Scientist, 0(0). DOI: 10.1177/00027642231182889
2023. "The Making of a Crisis: Migration and Polarization in the French Press". with Reddy, M., American Behavioral Scientist, 0(0). DOI: 10.1177/00027642231183274
2023. Research Handbook on the Institutions of Global Migration Governance, edited with Antoine Pécoud (eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 9781789908060, 450 p.
2023. "Is the forced/voluntary dichotomy really shaping migration governance?". with Ferruccio Pastore and Camille Schmoll in Handbook of Human Mobilities and Migrations, Ettore Recchi and Mirna Safi (eds.) Edward Elgar.
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Languages
French/English (fluent), Spanish (proficient), Arabic (basic)
Ouvrages
Research Handbook on The Institutions of Migration Governance. Co-edited with Antoine Pécoud (eds.), London, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World. Edited with Camille Schmoll, Catherine Lejeune and Delphine Pagès el Karoui. Springer IMISCOE series, 2021.
Migrations en Méditerranée. Permanences et mutations à l’heure des revolutions et des crises [Migration in the Mediterranean. Changes and continuities in times of revolutions and crises]. Edited volume with Camille Schmoll and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, CNRS Editions, 2015, 382 p.
Articles
"The Making of a Crisis: Migration and Polarization in the French Press". With Michelle Reddy, American Behavioral Scientist, First published online July 30, 2023. DOI: 10.1177/00027642231183274
"Migration as Crisis". with Céline Cantat & Antoine Pécoud, American Behavioral Scientist, First published online July 6, 2023. DOI: 10.1177/00027642231182889
"Global encounters: exploring the political foundations of global migration governance". With Stefan Rother, and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, in Research Handbook on the Institutions of Global Migration Governance, Antoine Pécoud and Hélène Thiollet (eds), Edward Elgar, pp.132-145, 2023.
"Theorising migration politics: do political regimes matter?" With Katharina Natter, Third World Quarterly, 43:7, pp. 1515-1530, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2069093
"Migrants and Monarchs: Regime Survival, State Transformation and Migration Politics in Saudi Arabia". Third World Quarterly, 43:7, pp.1645-1665, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1948325
"Cosmopolitanism in Exclusionary contexts". With Laure Assaf, Population, Space and Place, 27:1, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2358
"Migration as Diplomacy: Labour Migrants, Refugees and Arab regional politics in the oil rich countries", International Labor and Working Class History, 79:1, pp.103-121, 2011. DOI: 10.1017/S0147547910000293
