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This programme’s field of study is modern Venice, which was both a very large city of more than 150,000 inhabitants at the end of the 16th century, and a world-city whose mixed population came from around the Mediterranean basin and the Transalpine countries. This project relies on a massive volume

In particular, several recent studies highlight the existence of negative attitudes from other children towards children with ASD within the school (e.g. Humphrey & Hebron, 2015). Teachers and parents of pupils may also have many reservations about the inclusion of these children in school, sometim

Philosophy and legal theory have often questioned the external limits of freedom of expression, focusing on acts of expression that are deemed to threaten other freedoms or social interests, for example defamation, incitement to racial hatred or apology for terrorism. Much less attention has been pa

The general objective of DisPow is to analyze these socio-legal controversies in order to understand their origin, the different conceptions of justice they symbolize, the way they are challenging contemporary EU and French policies, and their effects on civil society’ actions. Inspired by the Law a

In the discourse of colonial law, the constitutive otherness of «natives« – based on ethnic considerations which in turn justified the barrier between «French citizen« and «French subject« – went hand in hand with an additional difference emanating from the sphere of mental pathology. Our study exam

The initial objective of the Smartnights research programme is to create a knowledge base for developing sustainable public policies for student nightlife in medium-sized university cities (Montpellier, Reims, Grenoble and Lyon as benchmark cities). Indeed, notions such as the «24-hour city« or the

We investigate to what extent contemporary social inequality is shaped by one’s relationship to spatially stratified housing markets. We hypothesize that the flow of real estate investments and residential housing production are predicated upon the intensifying financial stratification of urban ineq

CORTEM focuses on the government of dead bodies that are today considered problematic enough to be the center of political controversies: bodies of the victims of mass murders, of immigrants who died in the course of their migration, or bodies of inmates who where executed in uncertain conditions. T

A transborder minority group, the Kurds currently constitute a significant share of the population of Turkey, Iran and several states of the contemporary Arab world, but have also been present, since their emigration to the Tsarist Empire in 19th century, in several regions of the post-Soviet region

Examining the labour market outcomes of different groups. After 18 months the main results are still unclear. After 18 months the outstanding features are still unclear. Combes , Démuruger, Li, and Wang, “Unequal Urbanisation and Migration Gains in China” Journal of Development Economics 142, 2020 I

ChIPRe’s main research objectives are: (a) to describe the Chinese-born population in Paris Region and highlight its heterogeneity and internal stratification (demographic profile, socioeconomic characteristics, living conditions, migration histories, circumstances surrounding emigration (from China

In the wake of the current European migration and asylum crisis, much interest is devoted to State politics as the crisis shed renewed light on the shortcomings of migration and asylum policies as well as the pitfalls of “crisis management”. Yet, less is known about non-state actors’ role in and rea

Achieving a balanced representation of racial and other specific social groups in desirable occu- pations is important both politically and socially. Failing to tap the talent of large parts of the population to the benefit of society is limiting economic growth in terms of human capital. This is tr

Introduction and rationale. The literature on inter-ethnic recognition bias (the difficulty of recognizing persons belonging to an ethnic outgroup) is consistent. A meta-analysis by Meissner and Brigham (2001), reviewing a base of ?5,000 participants, showed that the intra-ethnic recognition advant