Hélène LE BAIL

Bio :

Hélène Le Bail is a researcher at CNRS and Sciences Po Paris – CERI (Centre de recherches internationales) and a fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations. Her research relates to Asian migrations and Asian minorities (in Japan and France) and migration policies in a comparative approach. Special focus is made on female routes of migration (marriage, reproductive labour, sex work) and on collective actions and political participation.

She is currently the principal investigator for the research project PolAsie (Political Participation of Asian Migrants and their Descendants in France) funded by the French Ministry of research; co-investigator for the Japanese JSPS project Rethinking the Nexus Migration and Sex Work trafficking ; co-investigator for the Colombia/Alliance joint project Anti-Asian Hate Compared: Origins, Patterns, and Responses in the US and France; and co-investigator for the LIEPP project Evaluer la pénalisation du proxénétisme en France.