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This project aims to analyse them according to two main areas of study: a. « Re-territorializing one's dead. Symbolic, ritual and economic imperatives«. The aim is to analyse the symbolic, ritual and economic modalities of the re-territorialisation of the «mobile dead«, which in most cases incl

In the post-2015 context, the state is designing action plans to prevent radicalisation and combat 'separatism', themes that are also very much in the public debate. These measures are having an impact on the practices and professional identities of social workers. They also have a major impact on p

The interaction between these economic and demographic trends has remained largely unexplored, while families are a key place in the production and reproduction of inequalities. For example, endogamous marriages could reinforce inequality between individuals. Allocation decisions within households c

Widening inequality has become a major source of political, social, and scientific concerns during the last decades. Although patterns and trends in inequality have been extensively documented in many countries, research tends to overfocus on individual determinants and to overlook the local context

Housing is a primary good, defined by Johh Rawls as desirable to any citizen, thus a common base for social justice. Public policies are explicitly targeted to the reduction of housing inequality with respect to laissez-faire. An extended set of policies (social housing, taxes and subsidies to renti

Reflections on modern emancipation often involve a disavowal of the contribution of religion. The latter is either criticized or portrayed as conservative criticism. This project wants to challenge this conception of the relation between emancipation and religion. Our main thesis is that monotheisti

This participatory and multidisciplinary research project aims to analyze the social and urban reconfigurations underway in the “popular” neighbourhoods from the perspective of their youth. The goal of this study is to understand the experiences of youths, from their territorial anchorages, their in

Based on the major hypothesis that there is a language specific to the recent migratory experience, the initial issues of the LIMINAL project concern the interactions and mediations between migrants and institutional, associative and informal actors in situations of migratory and humanitarian crisis

This project started from questions related to the work of the American anthropologist E.P. Skinner and from several field observations carried out previously by members of the team. In the 1950s, Skinner noted that Moose migrants in Côte d'Ivoire, who were often practicing «traditional« religions w

For three decades now, indigenous amazonian societies have been playing an increasingly active role on the political arena. Their organizations become the main actors in hundreds of so-called “environmental” conflicts that shake the region, against companies an State administration. However, their m

Aim: To study the Catholic migrants in France coming from extra-European countries, from African Creole, Asian and Latin American societies in the cities of Paris and Lyon. The project focuses on first-generation Catholic migrants. We have chosen to study them in two major French cities, Lyon and P

Measuring discrimination requires the ability to isolate the effect of discriminatory factors (gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, etc.) from the effect of differences in individual skills (education, experience, talent, etc.). These differences may themselves be the result of discriminatory pro

The PWACCOP project aimed to understand the construction and impact of rural land policies in post-conflict situations. It offers an original approach to these contexts, which are rarely analysed from the perspective of political economy and land issues. It focuses on the growing link between peaceb