16 March 2021

Race and Racism in the Concert of Nations

Since their very creation, international organisations (IO) have made the fight against racism one of their key objectives. However, despite their proactive discourse, IOs have […]
16 March 2021

Passing Laws: When the End Justifies (or not) the Means

Even in democratic systems, governments are able to bypass regular legislative processes. What are the consequences, advantages and risks? To answer this question, Sylvain Brouard […]
16 March 2021

The Origins of Social Assistance: Helping and Controlling

Lola Zappi is a recent history PhD graduate of Sciences Po whose thesis, which was awarded the Chancellery Prize and the Social Security History Committee […]
16 March 2021

Influenced Choice: Why Opt for Lockdown?

How does public opinion affect choices during major crisis periods? What elements influence the population? The Coping with Covid-19 project (CoCo), conducted by OSC and […]
23 November 2020

Migration and Integration: Global Cities of the Mediterranean Region in the 18th Century

David Do Paço, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Centre for History, investigates the production of social relations in situations of strong diversity on local, regional […]
18 November 2020

Migration, Diversity & Mobility

Social groups and individuals have always moved, more or less permanently. These moves, in all their diversity over time and space, feature many motives, trajectories, […]
16 November 2020

Rereading Fariba Adelkhah: On the Road from Teheran to Damascus

Our colleague, CERI researcher Fariba Adelkhah, has considered mobility as a key research area. Her most recent work focused on the circulation of Shiite clerics […]
16 November 2020

Migrant Labor: Policies Serving Production Systems

by Lucas Puygrenier Few studies on asylum seekers have explored their place in the production and labor systems of host countries. Migration management certainly gives […]
16 November 2020

Before the Deluge

The Apparently Unstoppable Growth of Human Mobility in the Pre-Covid World by Ettore Recchi Six months after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic […]