Thomas Lacroix is CNRS Director of research in geography. He works on the relationships between immigrant transnationalism and the state, with a focus on North African transnationalism. He extensively published on the migration and development relationship, diasporic memory, the moral geography of migration or the theory of transnationalism.

More recently, Lacroix’s research examines cities and city networks engagement on migration and integration issues. He is particularly interested in the place of cities in the building of a global migration governance framework. He also explores the epistemology of migration studies, with a special interest in the role of the Critique in migration research and the social engagement of scholars. He is engaged in a multidisciplinary dialogue between social scientists and other disciplinary domains such as the humanities, philosophy and mathematics.

Thomas Lacroix was awarded a PhD in geography and political sciences at the University of Poitiers (2003). He held research positions at the CEDEM (University of Liège), the Centre Jacques Berque (Rabat), the CRER (University of Warwick), the International Migration Institute (Oxford University), Migrinter (University of Poitiers) and the Maison Française of Oxford. He regularly teaches at the Master level at Sciences Po, Oxford University, the University of Poitiers and the University St Joseph in Beyrouth.

Thomas Lacroix is associate editor of Migration Studies, editor of the series "Migrations" at the Presses Universitaires François Rabelais and seats at the editorial board of Migration and Development (Routledge). He is fellow of the Institut Convergence Migrations in Paris and research associate at Migrinter, the Maison Française of Oxford and the Kellogg College of Oxford.

 Thomas Lacroix is the co-PI with Bénédicte Michalon (Passage/University of Bordeaux) of the Localacc programme (L’accueil en question: les localités urbaines et rurales face aux migrations) and Thanatic Ethics: the circulation of bodies in migration with Judith Misrahi Barak (EMMA, Université Paul Valéry 3 Montpellier) and Bidisha Banerjee (EUHK, Hong Kong). He is co-investigator in the programme PACE (the politics of migration and asylum crisis in Europe).

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