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London, Routledge, 2021, 276 p.

This volume demonstrates that migration- and diversity-related concepts are always contested, and provides a reflexive critical awareness and better comprehension of the complex questions driving migration studies. The main purpose of this volume is to enhance conceptual thinking on migration studies. Examining interaction between concepts in the public domain, the academic disciplines, and the policy field, this book helps to avoid simplification or even trivialization of complex issues. Recent political events question established ways of looking at issues of migration and diversity and require a clarification or reinvention of political concepts to match the changing world. Applying five basic dimensions, each expert chapter contribution reflects on the role concepts play and demonstrates that concepts are ideology dependent, policy/politics dependent, context dependent, discipline dependent, and language dependent, and are influenced by how research is done, how policies are formulated, and how political debates extend and distort them. This book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in migration studies/politics, migrant integration, citizenship studies, racism studies, and more broadly of key interest to sociology, political science, and political theory.

Les Dossiers du CERI, April 2022.

The "special military operation" launched in Ukraine on 24 February by Vladimir Putin is in fact a high-intensity war that marks a tipping point. One month after the beginning of the offensive, the result expected by the Kremlin does not seem to have been achieved. The human and material toll is extremely high. Why has Russia engaged so violently in an operation that seems likely to produce only casualties? Is this war the symptom of a neo-imperialism that continues to permeate Moscow's view of Ukraine thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet empire? Is it the result of a conflict between two development models, the authoritarian and conservative one carried by Russia and the democratic and liberal one carried by the West? This Dossier du CERI focuses on the stakes and consequences of this conflict.

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 656 p.

Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by promising them development and polarizing the electorate along ethno-religious lines. Both facets of this national-populism found expression in a highly personalized political style as Modi related directly to the voters through all kinds of channels of communication in order to saturate the public space.

Translation of L'Inde de Modi : national-populisme et démocratie ethnique,  Fayard (Paris), March 2019.

Les Etudes du CERI, No. 258, December 2021.

Si les confraternités nigérianes occupent une place croissante dans les médias au nom de la menace criminelle qu’elles représentent, elles n’ont fait l’objet d’aucun travail de recherche de terrain au Nigeria ni en Europe. Cette médiatisation alimente une confusion croissante entre les catégorisations juridico-policières qui sont utilisées pour les définir et les pratiques et discours panafricains, de solidarité ou d’émancipation, qu’elles mettent en avant. L’approche socio-historique développée dans cette étude permet de mettre en perspective l’expansion globale des confraternités depuis les années 2000, et de proposer un autre regard sur le rôle de ces sociétés secrètes et leur inscription dans des économies politiques et des territoires différents. En Europe, les confraternités sont d’abord des institutions sociales encadrant la jeunesse et les diasporas. Elles assurent la reproduction du pouvoir des élites tradition-nelles et politiques à l’étranger par la captation des rentes liées aux migrations (remittances), et jouent donc un rôle clé dans la production d’une forme de mondialisation de la société nigériane par le bas, participant à l’implantation des institutions morales et sociales du sud du pays en Europe. Derrière un discours d’empowerment et de solidarité, les confraternités sont ainsi un réseau transnational qui per-pétue un ordre conservateur, une hiérarchie sociale et des inégalités qu’elles contribuent à naturaliser.