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The Clinic: Migration

The Migration clinic allows students to participate in the activities of NGOs and other actors supporting migrants in France. With the intensification of conflicts in the Middle East, migrants face an unprecedented crisis in the European Union Member States. As multiple debates and reforms are developing around ideas of better managing “migratory flows” and better fighting against illegal immigration, civil society, NGOs and students seek for solutions to the multiple “border situations” faced by migrants.

The Migration clinic addresses cutting-edge issues related to the situation of migrants in France through a number of projects. It allows students to gain a rich and complex understanding of immigration law through practice. It also aims at developing or consolidating students’ critical thinking in a context in which political, legal and social discourses contribute to the production of an image of migrants as “threats” or as “undesirables”.

For more information about the Migration clinic programme in French.

Pedagogical team

The Migration clinic programme is taught in French and coordinated by:

  • Camille Escullié, lecturer
  • Nicolas Hervieu, lecturer
  • Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro, Migration clinic coordinator
  • Adrien Cabantous, coordination assistant and tutor
  • Vincent Chetail, lecturer of the required Migration course 
  • Jill Alpes, tutor 
  • Louise-Anne Baudrier, tutor 
  • Anne-Laure Lacoste, tutor 
  • Etienne Margaillan, tutor
  • Maëlys Renoux San Millan, tutor 

Projets 2025-2026

 

  • Partner: Fondation de l'Armée du Salut (FAS)
  • Tutor: Louise-Anne Baudrier 

ASSFAM is an association that supports and assists foreign nationals. Regular drop-in sessions are held in Paris to guide and help individuals referred by the Paris City Hall. As part of the clinic project, students participate in drop-in sessions alongside a social worker, providing support with research and resources to help those they are assisting. Students are also responsible for writing fact sheets for social workers on specific issues encountered by ASSFAM.

  • Partner: ASSFAM GROUPE SOS SOLIDARITES
  • Tutor: Anne-Laure Lacoste 

Border externalization policies involve delegating, through various means, the prerogatives of "migration management" to third countries, with the aim of limiting the arrival of foreign nationals on European territory. These policies take diverse forms: informal bilateral arrangements between a Member State and a third country, formal agreements between the European Union and one or more third countries, deployment of Frontex agents, and so on. While not new, these policies have experienced unprecedented growth in recent years. 

The objective of this project is to map the externalization initiatives undertaken by France or the European Union, presented in a tool that can be updated and expanded in the future. It also aims to identify ways in which this information can be used for advocacy purposes: to pinpoint levers that can be mobilized and propose concrete applications, such as disseminating an advocacy brief on an externalization project or giving a presentation during a meeting with a decision-maker.

  • Partner: CCFD-Terre Solidaire 
  • Tutor: Adrien Cabantous

The association Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) works to uphold fundamental rights worldwide, particularly in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Given that the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum and the Return Directive raise serious human rights concerns, this project aims to analyze the tensions between these measures and the European anti-discrimination framework, with a focus on Tunisia's role in externalization policies. 

Students will conduct a comparative legal analysis, identify potential normative conflicts, and propose avenues for strategic litigation. A research trip to Tunisia, undertaken in collaboration with the Faculty of Legal, Political, and Social Sciences of Tunis, will complement the research with interviews and field observations. The project also includes the development of advocacy tools and the organization of events to document forms of structural racism within European migration policies.

  • Partner: Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) 
  • Tutor: Maëlys Renoux San Millan

This is a joint clinic project with the Acces to Justice law clinic programme.

 

  • Partner: Intérêt à Agir 
  • Tutor: Jill Alpes 

 

  • Partner: Mouvement Citoyen Tous Migrants
  • Tutor: Etienne Margaillan 

Past projects