From November 2013 to the end of January 2014, my life was to a large determined by the arrival and departure times of Air France flights into the main international airport of Douala in Cameroon. Airports have rhythms and for three months I danced according to the tunes of the work shifts of the Cameroonian police, the constraints of private security staff, and the routines of the French policeman on patrol at the airport.
Douala Airport
Why migration lags the globalisation of goods, ideas and capital
An interview by Helene Thiollet about migration, borders and governance on the blog of The Economist « Look ahead«
Comité d’organisation : Camille Schmoll, Hélène Thiollet, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
Ce colloque propose de réinterroger le ou les systèmes migratoires méditerranéens de migration (Pugliese 2002 ; Khadri 2012 ; Wihtol de Wenden 2013), à la lumière de l’évolution des débats dans les études migratoires, et au regard des profonds changements qui ont affecté l’espace euro-méditerranéen durant les cinq dernières années (crises économique et financière sud-européenne, montée du chômage et des xénophobies, printemps arabes, conflits armés en Afrique du Nord et au Proche Orient).
Les modèles migratoires méditerranéens peuvent en particulier être réinterrogés autour des points suivants :
Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabia. Jan, 2014
I am conducting field work on Saudi immigration policies, hosted by the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. I am building on previous field work and publications on immigrants in Saudi Arabia (such as « Nationalisme d’Etat et nationalisme ordinaire en Arabie saoudite« ) to investigate the evolution of the role of public and private actors of migration management.
Contact: Pauline Brücker pauline.brucker@sciencespo.fr
La libre circulation des personnes, pourtant mentionnée dans la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme, reste encore aujourd’hui une utopie politique – ou un cauchemar, selon les points de vue. En matière de droit international public comme de politiques publiques nationales, régionales ou multilatérales, l’asymétrie est évidente entre les pays de départ et les pays d’arrivée des migrants. Si le droit d’émigrer n’est que marginalement contesté au sein de la communauté internationale notamment depuis l’effondrement de l’Union soviétique, le droit d’immigrer relève à l’échelle mondiale de la fiction.
Worldwide mobility is a part of the social texture of globalisation and international relations. It is both a cause and a consequence of globalisation, and the response of national and international political institutions is key to any analysis of governance and social transformation on a global scale. It is one of the tension points in modern politics at both a national and international level. This project looks at international organisations, national and regional migration policies of different countries, ways of organising the living space of migrants and refugees and the transnational social dynamics of mobility. It describes the political and social structures and trends of mobility, mainly through the empirical observation of the practices of institutions and actors (countries, international organisations, migrants, refugees, networks etc.) involved in the governance of mobility. It also seeks to analyse the representations linked to these practices, and the devices of regulation, ideology and identity politics on which they are based. The researchers involved in this project favour an empirical approach together with a systematization following the models of political science, sociology, anthropology and political economy. They have also chosen to tie their research to political and social issues, and to produce an empirically grounded discussion on migration policies and migration politics. They share a common interest and critical insight on public action, both national and international, its norms and its principles in relation to mobility.
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A collaborative event MOBGLOB and SYSREMO at CERI -Sciences Po, 56 rue Jacob, 75006 PARIS
Conveners : Christophe Jaffrelot (CNRS / Sciences Po – CERI), Laurence Louër (Sciences Po – CERI), Hélène Thiollet (Sciences Po – CERI, Mobglob ANR Program), Leïla Vignal (Chaire d’excellence CNRS/Université Rennes-2, Sysremo ANR Program, ESO-Rennes)
Full programme here.
This conference follows up on “Feedback : the impact of migration to the Middle East on sending countries », organized at CERI in September 2012. While the first venue explored the return effect of mobility on countries and societies of origin, the conference to be held in July 2013 will be looking at the consequences of mass-migration on Gulf societies, GCC states and economies. It is also building up on a previous workshop organised at the IMI – Oxford university in 2010 on Migration to the Gulf countries.
Discutante : Hélène Thiollet, PSIA-Sciences Po, chercheuse associée au CERI
Discutante : Catherine de Wenden, CNRS/CERI-Sciences Po
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L’axe « Murs et frontières » porté par François Gemenne dans le cadre du programme MOBGLOB vise à décrire les dispositifs contemporains les plus visibles de limitation de la mobilité et explorer des scenarii politiques d’ouverture des frontières et de libéralisation de la mobilité.