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Maxime Christophe

PhD Candidate

Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS)

Research Interest(s): Migrations, Right of asylym, Administrative procedures and migration policies, Ethnographic pathways

Discipline(s): Sociology

Biography

Supervisor: Ettore Recchi (Sciences Po - CRIS).
Funding: Contrat doctoral de Sciences Po (2020-2023).

PhD Defense, within the Sociology program at Sciences Po, Friday, February 27th, 2026.
Displacing 30,000 Non-Nationals per year in France. A study of state logistics,
PhD thesis committee members: Marc Bernadot (Mesopolhis, AMU), Nicolas Fischer (CNRS, CESDIP), Glenda Garelli (University of Leeds), Federica Infantino (URMIS), Sukriti Issar (Sciences Po-CRIS), Ettore Recchi (Supervisor, Sciences Po-CRIS).

Thesis topic

Seeking Asylum in France: An Ethnographic Study of the Times and Spaces of Waiting

publications

Presentations

2022, "Governing through Dis-orientation. The Spatial Management of Asylum Seekers in France", CRIS Scientific Seminar, Sciences Po, December 2nd.