Soazig Dollet
PhD Candidate
After studying political science with a focus on the Arab world (Master degree earned in 2003), Soazig Dollet worked on processing asylum application files at OFPRA in Paris, before joining the International Committee of the Red Cross and its field missions. In 2009, she became head of the Middle East & North Africa desk of Reporters Without Borders, an organisation she left at the end of 2014. Having become a consultant, she carried out field research on Syrian refugees’ access to service information in Turkey and Lebanon.
Research
In September 2019, she joined the CEE as a doctoral student. Under the supervision of Virginie Guiraudon, she is analysing the experience - by beneficiaries of international protection - of the reception and integration schemes that target them. More specifically, she is looking at the residential arbitrations made by refugees once they have been “taken in charge”, the counterpart of which is that they are directed to live outside major cities.
This research work was carried out in Bordeaux, Pau and Mont-de-Marsan as part of a CIFRE programme (2019-2022) in collaboration with the COS Alexandre Glasberg Foundation.
Since 2020, Soazig Dollet has been a Fellow of Institut Convergences Migrations (Policy Department).
Teaching (selected)
Soazig Dollet taught two lecture courses in the Master of International Relations at INALCO in the last semester of 2023 (“Actors of emergency and development” and “Conducting negotiation on the frontlines”). Since September 2023, she has been carrying out method conferences (L2 level) and dissertation guidance sessions (L3 level) in the framework of partnership between ETSUP and University Paris Nanterre.
Publications (selected)
Entre contrôle de l'image de soi et fermeture. Retour sur la grammaire des attitudes adoptée par des personnes réfugiées dans le cadre d'entretiens biographiques, Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique, 2024
“Les parcours résidentiels des personnes réfugiées : quels positionnements face à la contrainte?”, In Gardesse Camille and Driant Jean-Claude (dir), Crise du logement, crise de l’accueil. Défis sociaux de l’habitat dans la France des années 2020, L’Harmattan, Coll. Habitat et Sociétés, May 2023, p.121-141.
Presentations (selected)
● Conference “Living in small and medium-sized cities. Social relationships, residential trajectories and public action”, January 2023
Presentation title : “Between Acceptance(s) and Resistance(s) While Facing Imposed Mobility. Grammar of Attitudes and Practices of Beneficiaries of International Protection Oriented Outside Major Urban Centers”
● International Geographic Union Congress – “The local reception of exiled people: spaces, actors, times” Panel, July 2022
Presentation title: “The experience, by refugees, of the intertwining of the timescales they face”
● French Association of Political Science (AFSP) Congress - “Institutions, Public Action and Government” group, "Towards a sociology of public-private action" Panel, July 2022
Presentation title: “The Platform for the Reception and Integration of Refugees in the Gironde, an instrument of public action initiated and implemented by a non-state actor.”
● 2-day workshop on the theme of “Research under duress” - “Research and commitment" Panel, April 2022
Presentation title: “Commitment of Two Researchers under the CIFRE fellowship Program in the field of migration: socialisation and relationship to politics” (with Maxime Maréchal)
Organisation and animation of scientific events
Organising committee of the CEE 2022 Doctoral Workshop “Cities and migration: perspectives on interdependencies”, December 2022
Awards
Research Topics
Refugees, Asylum and immigration policy, State care programmes, Street-level bureaucrats, Social work, Mobility and accessibility, Residential arbitrages, Agentivity
