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The proportion of individuals in the French population aged 60 years and above increased from 17% in 1980 to almost 27% in 2020. This population is today highly diverse and individual characteristics vary considerably on account of the coexistence of several generations of older people together with

Immigration has become a central and persistent issue in the political discourse and public debate of many European societies. Some evidence suggests that the popularity of anti-immigrant parties has been partly driven by recent waves of immigrant arrivals. Other evidence, however, suggests that in

The two study regions of the project, Zona da Mata / East of the state of Minas Gerais and Vale do Ribeira (state of São Paulo), illustrate the neoliberalization of nature through environmental deregulation and the expansion of the extractivist model in the agricultural and mining sectors. This expa

In established countries of destination such as France, assessing the full social consequences of immigration requires the study of both immigrants and their descendants. Indeed, while immigrants (first generation) make up a tenth of the French population, the proportion of people with a foreign bac

The design of redistributive tax policies is an evergreen in the public discourse. Research on these questions has led to a well-developed “theory of optimal taxation” with seminal contributions by Mirrlees (1971), Piketty (1997), Diamond (1998) and Saez (2001; 2002). These contributions have in com

This collaborative program brings together eight academic partners in France, Asia and the Pacific who combine their research skills in an attempt to enrich knowledge relating to migration brokerage within the French colonial empire in Asia and the Pacific, mid-9th to mid-20th century This term refe

The objective of this project is to shed light on three complementary research questions using empirical data collected during the first months of the mobilisation and during the project's duration: How do the socio-spatial and sociological characteristics of the GJs show a recomposition of working

This project aims to contribute, both theoretically and empirically, to the field of gender-based violence studies and engages an intersectional perspective. It posits that the postcolonial context and socioeconomic characteristics of the three overseas territories studied – Guadeloupe, Martinique,

The aim of the project is to analyse young migrants’ educational guidance as a social construction in the French educational system. In order to do so, institutional rhetorics and discourse as well as the habits and methods of students and adults working with them must be taken into account. This an

If the main countries with a plurality of personal status laws are known (India, Lebanon, Israel), there is no gllobal research about the three dozens of countries with this diversity of family laws et even less about the relationships between this plurality of personal status and the principle of e

This project focuses on the new ways in which young people start their intimate lives. In a context of youth impoverishment, of politicisation of sexual issues, of growing visibility of homosexuality, and of new practices linked to the rise of digital technology, the aim is to understand the new beh

Cars are in the center of urban and environmental issues around the world. Cars entangle global economies, from the mainstream to the margins. Social research paid scarce attention to them. Our project focuses on informal, illegal and criminal activities related to the second-hand car economies (str

The project aims to study the ongoing multidimensional changes in revolutionary Sudan within a dynamic context of (practical and conceptual) production of social alternative models inspired by a shared and multiform quest for equality and justice. Its methodology is based on intensive ethnographies,

THERMAPOLIS analyzes access to water in cities in Western countries through the example of public baths. The challenge is to know the uses and users of public baths in France and Western Europe, and to identify the past and present functions of these institutions. Thanks to the combination of observ

The ETOM project studies the migration of mainland France high civil servants to the French overseas departments and territories (respectively Guadeloupe, French Guiana and Martinique, and New Caledonia and French Polynesia), and the specific nature of their careers in three administrations (Nationa