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Christophe
BERTOSSI

Senior research fellow (PhD Habil.) and Director of the Center for Migration and Citizenship

Christophe BERTOSSI is the director of the Centre for Migrations and Citizenship at the Ifri. He gained his Habilitation (HDR) in 2013 at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and his PhD in Political Sciences in 2000 at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence (France). He is teaching at Sciences Po since 2006.

He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick (UK) between 2001 and 2003, and a visiting fellow at the New York University (2009), the Institute for Advanced Studies-Collegium in Lyon (2010), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Göttingen (2015).  He has co-ordinated several international collaborative research projects on citizenship and ethnicity, notably with the Washington University in St-Louis, the American Sociological Association, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).

His publications include : Les frontières de la citoyenneté en Europe : nationalité, résidence, appartenance (L'Harmattan, 2001) ; European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship: France and Britain (Palgrave, 2007) ; Les couleurs du drapeau : les militaires issus de l'immigration (Robert Laffont, 2007, with Catherine Wihtol de Wenden) ; As Cruzadas da Integraçao na Europa (Principia, 2012), and European States and their Muslim Citizens (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with John R. Bowen, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Mona Krook).

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Papers

The African Union’s Migration Agenda: An Alternative to European Priorities in Africa?

26 February 2021

While migration from Africa is the priority of European policies for the control of the European Union’s external borders, African migration dynamics are above all regional. Sub-Saharan migration is poorly connected to transcontinental flows: more than 70% remain in Africa.

Christophe BERTOSSI Amal EL OUASSIF Matthieu TARDIS
Studies

How the French Understand Immigrant Integration and Citizenship

09 December 2020

On December 9, 2020 will be celebrated the 115th anniversary of the 1905 law on French secularism (laïcité). On the very same day, a new law project will be presented by the French government, with the objective of further strengthening the “republican values” in order to fight against so-called “Islamist separatism” within French society.  

 

Christophe BERTOSSI
Studies

Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

31 March 2017

France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

Thomas GOMART Marc HECKER Alain ANTIL Marie-Claire AOUN Christophe BERTOSSI Corentin BRUSTLEIN Alice EKMAN Sébastien JEAN Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Barbara KUNZ Frédéric MONLOUIS-FÉLICITÉ Laurence NARDON Françoise NICOLAS Julien NOCETTI Céline PAJON Michel PÉBEREAU Vivien PERTUSOT Dorothée SCHMID John SEAMAN Hans STARK Matthieu TARDIS
Studies

Europe and Refugees in 2015: A Crisis of Memory?

21 December 2016

Contrary to other immigration societies such as the United States, Canada or Australia, migrations is not a core element of European narratives on shared identity. Each country maintains a very particular understanding of his migratory past and on the extent to which it should become part of the national narrative. The question of a European memory of migration therefore struggles to emerge.

Christophe BERTOSSI Matthieu TARDIS Patrick KLUGMAN Georges DERTILIS Catherine PERRON Evelyne RIBERT Philip RUDGE
Studies

Le monde selon Trump. Anticiper la nouvelle politique étrangère américaine

16 November 2016

What will become of US foreign policy under Donald Trump? A selection of Ifri researchers has come together to offer their thoughts on this question. Our experts cover an array of topics through 14 contributions, ranging from the future Sino-American relations, through US engagement in the Middle East, to the prospects of a renewed transatlantic relationship. This analysis intends to help readers anticipate the outcomes of this election in order to facilitate decision-making.

Marie-Claire AOUN Christophe BERTOSSI Corentin BRUSTLEIN Alice EKMAN Thomas GOMART Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Carole MATHIEU Laurence NARDON Françoise NICOLAS Julien NOCETTI Céline PAJON Vivien PERTUSOT Dorothée SCHMID John SEAMAN Hans STARK Matthieu TARDIS
La Citoyenneté à la française

Citizenship in the French Tradition. Values and Realities

22 April 2016

Citizenship is a major issue in public debates when it comes to immigration in France. Passionate talks illustrate the current disagreements on the meaning of value such as “laïcité”, “universalism”, “equality”, “community” and on the way these should apply in social and political life.

Christophe BERTOSSI
Articles from Politique Etrangère

Understanding African Migrations

02 March 2016

Movements of African people, being within their countries, on the continent or heading Europe, have numerous and ancient causes. The term “migration” covers a plurality of situations with many internal as well as international implications. Therefore, reasons to migrate deserve a careful analysis. One cannot tackle such a phenomenon through mere border control policies or their externalization, as the European Union seems inclined to do.

Alain ANTIL Christophe BERTOSSI Victor MAGNANI Matthieu TARDIS
Editorials

Refugees and European borders in the aftermath of Paris’ terror attacks

25 November 2015

Just a day after the murderous attacks that killed 129 people and wounded about 350 more in Paris and St Denis on November 13th 2015, the word spread that a Syrian passport had been found near the body of one of the Stade de France’s attacker.

Christophe BERTOSSI Matthieu TARDIS
European States and their Muslim Citizens
External Publications