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• Izabela Wagner
  Izabela Wagner is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology of Migration at Université Paris Cité. She joined Urmis (Paris) at the start of the 2023 academic year. Her work focuses on the mobility and careers of artistic and scientific elites and on the reception of exiled people in Europe. For more information, visit her personal website: https://www.izabelawagner.com/ Photo credit ©Agata Szczypinska
• Federica Infantino
  Federica Infantino just joined Urmis (Nice) at the beginning of the 2023 academic year as IRD-Université Côte d’Azur Junior Professor on “Migration, Borders and International Circulation: Controlling Mobility and Reconfiguring the Migration Issue in the World”. Email: federica.infantino@univ-cotedazur.fr Main publications on Cadmus, EUI Research Repository: https://cadmus.eui.eu/browse?type=author&authority=43056&order=DESC&rpp=5&sort_by=3&type=author Research project: The governance of migration beyond borders. Diplomacy, cooperation and externalisation This project proposes to study migration diplomacy, international cooperation and outsourcing in […]
• Louise Virole
  Louise Virole joined Urmis (Paris) at the start of the 2023 academic year as a lecturer in sociology at Université Paris Cité, specialising in gender, health and migration issues. CV and publications HAL: https://cv.hal.science/louise-virole Contact: louise.virole@u-paris.fr Further information and publications on her personal website (in French): https://www.louisevirole.com
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  Council of Europe: Written declaration in support of Pinar Selek
  A written declaration by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe denounces the judicial harassment of Pinar Selek. The signatories “urge Türkiye to end the judicial proceedings against Pınar Selek, as well as the International Arrest Warrant” and “call on the member States to publicly express their support for Pınar Selek and to declare their refusal to respond favourably to the international arrest warrant issued against her”. […]
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  Female Genital Mutilation and its ‘Imported’ Reconstructive Surgery: Medical Practices Confronting Discourses Regarding Nation Identity Building and Gender Issues
  An article from Sarah Boisson’s PhD dissertation, to be read in the Migrations et Altérités Research Blog, original article published in Greece in NEW RESEARCH journal, #2, May 2023. […]
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  Unacceptable judicial persecution of sociologist and writer Pinar Selek
  Information document on Pinar Selek, June 2023. On “Migrations et altérités” blog: https://urmis.hypotheses.org/1540 […]
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  Territorial expressions of power, from antiquity to modern age
  21-23 Jun 2023 Nice (France). https://pouvoir-territoire.sciencesconf.org/ This international, transperiodic conference is the result of an inter-institutional collaboration that developed within the framework of the project “Aristocratic networks and territorial power from Antiquity to the modern era” supported by the MSHS-Sud-Est. This project is the result of a joint reflection by historian and archaeologist teachers and researchers from the ancient, medieval and modern periods of the Université Côte d’Azur (members of CEPAM and URMIS) and their partners (ARSCAN, CIHAM, CRH, Centre Roland Mousnier). The project focuses on the relationship between the holders of power and the territory, and the way in which this power leaves its mark on the territory, and even shapes it. […]