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Lucas Puygrenier

Associate Research Fellow

Center for International Studies (CERI)

Duration: from 01 September 2024 to 01 August 2027

Research Interest(s): Migration and labour, unlawful accumulation, state-capital relations

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Global economy, capitalism, extraction, State, political regimes, mobilisations

Geographical Area(s): Western Europe

Language(s): French

Biography

Lucas Puygrenier did his PhD at the CERI under the supervision of Béatrice Hibou. His doctoral dissertation, entitled "Redundant people: Labor formation and the management of populations in Malta", showed how the boundaries between the human presences that are deemed to be legitimate and those considered to be "redundant" are continuously shifting, depending on the changing understandings of the "needs" of the economy and of the role the state is expected to play in the management of production. After being a lecturer at the University of Lille, Lucas is since 2014 a postdoctoral researcher at the EHESS (CMH) in Paris. His new research projects evolve around the 'golden visas' and 'golden passports' in Malta, investigating, in a Veblenian perspective, how the development of a foreign 'leisure class' on the island depends on the expansion of foreign working classes.

His research has been published in several venues, including la Revue européenne des migrations internationales, Theory and Society, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. With Jeanne Bouyat and Amandine Le Bellec, Lucas also recently co-edited the book States and the Making of Others, published with Palgrave Macmillan.

Teaching

• « Sociologie des migrations et des mobilités humaines », Université de Lille, M1.
• « Analyse des crises et conflits », Université de Lille, L3.
• « Enjeux politiques de la mondialisation », Université de Lille, L2.
• « Sociologie politique européenne et internationale », Université Paris-Nanterre, M1.
• « Sociology of work and employment », Sciences Po, L2.
• « Comparing Political Systems », Université Paris-Est Créteil, L1.
• « Introduction à la Science Politique », Sciences Po, L1.

publications

  • Lucas Puygrenier. Le nexus migration-surpopulation : Sociohistoire de la politisation de la démographie à Malte et de ses usages. Sociétés politiques comparées, 2025, 64, pp.71-88. ⟨10.36253/spc-17456⟩. ⟨hal-05067453⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Conceptualiser le travail illibéral : pour une théorie de la contrainte au travail. Bénédicte Lavaud-Legendre. Externalisation de l'activité dans l'agriculture : De l'opportunité migratoire aux risques d'exploitation ?, Mare & Martin, 16 p., 2025, 9782386000997. ⟨hal-05067087⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. The New Vagabonds: Labor, Mobility, and Virtue in the Making of “Illegal” Others in Malta. Jeanne Bouyat; Amandine Le Bellec; Lucas Puygrenier (Eds). States and the Making of Others. Perspectives on Social State Institutions and Othering in Southern Africa and Western Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.109-132, 2024, The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, 9783031596582. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-59659-9_4⟩. ⟨hal-04619311⟩
  • Jeanne Bouyat, Amandine Le Bellec, Lucas Puygrenier. Introduction: States Make Others, Others Make States. States and the Making of Others. Perspectives on Social State Institutions and Othering in Southern Africa and Western Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-39, 2024, The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, 9783031596582. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-59659-9_1⟩. ⟨hal-04619296⟩
  • Jeanne Bouyat, Amandine Le Bellec, Lucas Puygrenier (Dir.). States and the Making of Others. Palgrave Macmillan, 275 p., 2024, The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, 9783031596582. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-59659-9⟩. ⟨hal-04619283⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Les gens de trop : gouvernement des populations et mise au travail sur l’île de Malte. Science politique. Institut d'études politiques de paris - Sciences Po, 2024. Français. ⟨NNT : 2024IEPP0001⟩. ⟨tel-04498046v2⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Au secours des « indésirables ». Consensus et dissensus dans la gestion de la « crise migratoire » à Malte. Tracés : Revue de Sciences Humaines, 2023, 44, pp.59-77. ⟨10.4000/traces.15189⟩. ⟨hal-04336349⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Patients du capital. L’attente des journaliers de Malte, ethnographie d’une « armée de réserve ». Terrains et Travaux : Revue de Sciences Sociales, 2023, 2023/1 (42), pp.167-186. ⟨hal-04195718⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Bureaucracy and the politics of time in state-business relations: Waiting to recruit migrant labour in Mauritius. Theory and Society, 2022, ⟨10.1007/s11186-022-09479-z⟩. ⟨hal-03660400⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Du « fardeau migratoire » au fardeau des migrants. L’exil à Malte ou la condition d’entre-emplois. Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2021, 37 (1-2), pp.43-66. ⟨10.4000/remi.18055⟩. ⟨hal-03470366⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Un salariat au-delà du marché de l’emploi : le travail migrant ou le travail illibéral à l’île Maurice. Sociologie du Travail, 2021, 63 (3), pp.en ligne. ⟨10.4000/sdt.39670⟩. ⟨halshs-03367474⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Taxonomies at work: profit and race in the quest for the ‘best worker’ in Mauritius. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2021, ⟨10.1080/1369183X.2021.1920378⟩. ⟨hal-03380840⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Les entreprises en campagne : Le capitalisme de connivence à l’aune du financement des campagnes électorales à l’île Maurice. Revue internationale de politique comparée, 2021, 27 (2020/1), pp.43 - 70. ⟨10.3917/ripc.271.0043⟩. ⟨hal-03380855⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. From the “Migration Burden” to Migrants’ Burden: Exile in Malta or the Condition of Inter-jobs [English Version]. Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2021, Travail et migrations, 37 (1-2), ⟨10.4000/remi.20824⟩. ⟨hal-05056341⟩
  • Lucas Puygrenier. Travail des migrants : des politiques au service des régimes de production. 2020. ⟨hal-03386579⟩

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