Chercheur
Catherine Wihtol De Wenden
Senior researcher emeritus, CNRSPhone: +33158717057 - catherine.wihtoldewenden@sciencespo.fr
Catherine Withol de Wenden is Director of research at CNRS (CERI).
For 30 years she has been a researcher on international migration, from a Political Science and Public Law approach. She studied in Sciences-Po Paris and University Paris I (Panthéon- Sorbonne) She got her Ph D in Political Science in 1986. She has published 20 books, alone or as co-writer and around 150 articles.
She is also teaching at Sciences-Po, at the University La Sapienza and LUISS in Rome and she has been President of the Research Committee Migration of ISA – International Sociological Association – (2002-2008) and expert for several international organisations (UNHCR, Council of Europe and European Commission). Her distinctions are Chevalier de la légion d’honneur (2014) and médaille d’honneur du CNRS (2017).
For 30 years she has been a researcher on international migration, from a Political Science and Public Law approach. She studied in Sciences-Po Paris and University Paris I (Panthéon- Sorbonne) She got her Ph D in Political Science in 1986. She has published 20 books, alone or as co-writer and around 150 articles.
She is also teaching at Sciences-Po, at the University La Sapienza and LUISS in Rome and she has been President of the Research Committee Migration of ISA – International Sociological Association – (2002-2008) and expert for several international organisations (UNHCR, Council of Europe and European Commission). Her distinctions are Chevalier de la légion d’honneur (2014) and médaille d’honneur du CNRS (2017).
Work in Progress
Globalization of migrations ; Migrations and international relations
Research Interests
Migrations and representations of alterity
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Teaching
- Establishment : Sciences Po, title : "L’Europe et ses migrations de l’Atlantique à L’Oural", (level : master),
- Establishment : Sciences Po, title : "Migrations et régulations internationales" , (level : master),
- Establishment : Sciences Po, title : "Migrations internationales", (level : master) -
Webhttp://www.sciencespo.fr/mobglob/
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Languages
English, French

Main Publications
- Migrations en Méditerranée (Direction d'ouvrage)
Last Publications
- Papiers (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Frontières (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Coming back to migration as a social question (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- Réchauffement climatique et migrations (Article dans une revue sans comité de lecture)
- L’année 1973 : la décision algérienne d’arrêt de l’immigration de main-d’œuvre (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- Les grands enjeux de 2021 - Le droit à la mobilité (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Les catégories, un mal nécessaire ? (Article dans une revue sans comité de lecture)
- Migrations dans le monde (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Construir la memoria de la inmigración a través de un museo (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Fact check : La fermeture des frontières modifie-t-elle l’itinéraire des réfugiés vers l’Europe ? (Contribution à un site web)