Katherine Booth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3911189 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katherine Booth |
| PRENOMES | Katherine |
| SOBRENOME | Booth |
| ASSINATURA | BOOTH K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Eau de Paris (France) |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Challenges and limitations of categorisation in the context of forced migration
This article takes a critical approach to categorizations in the context of forced migration, with a focus on multiple and secondary conflicts and displacements, by crossing geographical and legal approaches. The article is based on three populations: Palestinian refugees from Lebanon and Syria and Syrian refugees displaced in Lebanon since 2011. These groups are under the jurisdiction of two UN agencies: UNRWA and UNHCR. Both agencies operate in…
A Transnational Researcher’s Perspective
In this interview, Monika Salzbrunn shares her perspective as a transnational researcher on gender issues and power relations in academia, combining (auto-)ethnographic elements with structural analysis. Placing her reflections in the context of internationalisation and career precariousness, she addresses the material, administrative and emotional issues that explain and result from the almost permanent overload of female researchers. Articulati…
Migrating to Dominate? The Experience of French Men in Post-Soviet Countries through the Prism of Intimacy and Gender Regimes
Drawing on a study of French men in relationships with post-Soviet women in post-Soviet countries, this article examines these privileged migratory flows through the prism of intimacy and gender. This theoretical shift offers a fresh perspective on these mobilities, moving beyond the traditional focus on class and social ascent, to explore the intersection and reconfiguration of power dynamics during migration. In this way, the privileges activat…
Ashura in Barcelona
Metropolitan Privilege? Judges, Prosecutors and the Construction of “Metropolitanity” in French Overseas Territories
Drawing on an interview-based study, this article explores the ambivalent nature and contours of privilege linked to origin, race and class of judges/prosecutors in the French overseas territories. With higher salaries and lower taxes, judges/prosecutors in these territories enjoy a higher standard of living, providing them with material conditions and a lifestyle unattainable in metropolitan France. In addition, they enjoy a presumption of compe…
Eating from Both Countries”
The Maroni River basin forms not only a porous border, but also and above all a living space populated by mobile inhabitants, who frequently cross from one side to the other. This article traces the evolution of this border since its creation in colonial times in 1662. It examines how the everydayday-to-day relationship to the river space has historically been constructed by exchanges between the two banks, despite and alongside the existence of …
The Migration-Development Relationship through the Prism of Localities
The migration-development relationship has been constructed around several myths. Although they have been deconstructed, they are continually revived. Introduced to the global agenda in the mid-2000s, this nexus has become widely accepted, obscuring the challenging paths taken by the actors embodying this interrelationship to establish their legitimacy in the development field. Using a diachronic approach, this article revisits the migration-deve…
Fragility and Reversibility of Migratory Privilege. The Case of Algerian and Moroccan Upper-class Women Living in France
Based on a contextualised case study, this article examines the heuristic value of the notion of migratory privilege. It compares the conditions under which two women from the elite in former French colonies develop and maintain a migratory advantage. Through an analysis that considers individual characteristics, opportunity structures and constraints, and relationship networks in a diachronic perspective, the article highlights the fragility and…
A Back-up Nationality. Transmission and Strategic Use of Dual Nationality in the Lille and Geneva Border Spaces
In the border agglomerations of Lille and Geneva, acquiring the nationality of the neighbouring country is a common phenomenon that is reproduced from one generation to the next, without attracting any particular political or academic attention. How can we explain the processes of acquiring and passing on dual nationality when they offer so few comparative benefits in the international arena? What marital and parental choices form the basis of ac…
The Significance of Dispositions for Survival and Preparation for the Ordeals of the Asylum Process
This article focuses on men applying for asylum on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity who are not accommodated in the reception scheme provided for this purpose and who have to compensate for the lack of accommodation and proper socio-administrative support. The strategies they use to make up for these shortcomings are described based on ethnographic research conducted in two associations supporting asylum seekers. These s…
Migrating from Tajikistan to Russia
Studying International Migration as a Continuum between External and Internal Borders
Taking as a starting point a comparative juxtaposition of border situations observed in different field sites during my ethnographic research, this article offers a theoretical and epistemological reflection on how the border is conceptualized and constructed as an object in the study of international migration. It describes how, during my work focused on capturing the effects of the border and the border as an effect, the attention paid to the t…
Social Participation
Empowerment is a concept that is hardly used in the field of migration. However, this approach, which is based on participation, promotion of experiential knowledge, peer support, strengthening through exchange with others who have experienced similar difficulties, and change by and with the communities affected, is particularly relevant to an understanding of the migration experiences of immigrants in precarious situations, dealing with the diff…
(Up) Against the Prefecture
Based on fieldwork carried out in northern France, this article looks at associations and activists-both volunteers and paid employees-working for the cause of foreign nationals, and seeks to understand their role in the reception and defence of these populations through the figure of the "intermediary". By analysing local configurations of intermediation and delegation, the article shows that associations and activists constitute intermediary fi…
Intervening in the Legal Space without Being a Legal Professional
How is it possible to intervene professionally in the legal space without being a legal professional? Based on ethnographic fieldwork focusing on court interpreters, this article examines the relationship between interpreters and lawyers in the context of hearings at the French National Court of Asylum. In order to grasp the relationship between interpreters and lawyers, it is necessary to contextualise the role of orality and interpreting in the…
Dynamics in International Law on Education as it Applies to Refugee Students
Among the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the fourth, under Target 3, aims to ensure by 2030 “equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university”. This overall ambition was adapted to the case of refugees by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) with the launch of the…
Luxury Immigrants? An Exploration of the Practical and Symbolic Motivations of Chinese Beneficiaries of the Canadian Citizenship by Investment Programme
What were the motivations of people who chose to acquire Canadian citizenship through the Federal Immigrant Investor Programme? To answer this question, we draw on a series of nineteen semi-structured interviews conducted with people of Chinese origin who obtained Canadian nationality through this programme. Based on the concept of nationality as a system of social stratification on a global scale, this research shows that children's education, a…
French Retirees in Morocco
Based on two surveys conducted between 2014 and 2019 among French retirees living on a year-round or seasonal basis in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco, this article analyses the multiple migratory spatialities of this migration from the "North" to the "South". By examining the privileged dimension of these spatialities, the article contributes to the emerging field of lifestyle migration, with a geographical perspective. Our results present the…
Beneath the Border, Anchorage
sur les routes des Balkans Bajo la frontera, el anclaje.Relaciones al tiempo
Stories of Migrant Smuggling
This article analyses the links between the recruitment of new generations of smugglers and storytelling of the nocturnal "adventures" of former smugglers in Djibouti. Such accounts make it possible to study the imaginaries and discourses of success surrounding the figure of smuggler. To do this, the article draws on a corpus of stories collected from various actors (smuggler, official, henchman), with each account highlighting the various praise…
An "Indigenous" Migration Control? Coloniality and Contrasting Effects of Peer-to-Peer Intermediation in the Implementation of Voluntary Returns from Morocco
Drawing on data collected during ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2016 and 2018, this article addresses the role of intermediaries from migrant communities in the implementation of voluntary returns run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from Morocco. The article explores the colonial legacies and contrasting effects of this singular form of intermediation in the context of migration. It develops the concept of "indig…
Dual Nationality Serving Individual Interests
Dual nationality has long been analysed from the angle of the state and sovereignty. Perceived as a conflict of loyalties and allegiances, it aroused open hostility. States sought to combat a phenomenon that was disrupting the coherence of the international order. According to the preamble to the Convention of 12 April 1930 on Certain Questions relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws, each individual should possess only one nationality, an “…
Recruiting, Protecting, Participating
In recent years, the literature regarding migration infrastructure has undergone significant expansion, providing a better understanding of the complexity of the mechanisms that facilitate the movement of individuals across borders. The aim of this article is to engage with this literature in order to give greater attention to the participation of migrants themselves in migration infrastructures. We analyse the involvement of certain internationa…
The Right to an Interpreter during Examination of Asylum Applications in France
For several years, nearly 90% of interviews at the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons–Ofpra) and hearings at the Cour nationale du droit d’asile (French National Court of Asylum–CNDA) have provided for the services of an interpreter. These high proportions can be explained by the legal obligation to call in an interpreter if the person being interviewed wants…
"Shattering the Myth of the "Jungle that Kills
A "green hell"; a "jungle that kills": the semantics of political and media discourse hold the Darién jungle responsible and criminalise it as a central actor in migration. However, while the environment is certainly hostile, it cannot bear responsibility for the deaths of thousands of migrants who pass through it every day to reach the United States. This article examines the mythologised space of the Darién region beyond the topography and repr…
Recruiting, Protecting, Participating
In recent years, the literature regarding migration infrastructure has undergone significant expansion, providing a better understanding of the complexity of the mechanisms that facilitate the movement of individuals across borders. The aim of this article is to engage with this literature in order to give greater attention to the participation of migrants themselves in migration infrastructures. We analyse the involvement of certain internationa…
Studying International Migration as a Continuum between External and Internal Borders
Taking as a starting point a comparative juxtaposition of border situations observed in different field sites during my ethnographic research, this article offers a theoretical and epistemological reflection on how the border is conceptualized and constructed as an object in the study of international migration. It describes how, during my work focused on capturing the effects of the border and the border as an effect, the attention paid to the t…
Social Participation
Empowerment is a concept that is hardly used in the field of migration. However, this approach, which is based on participation, promotion of experiential knowledge, peer support, strengthening through exchange with others who have experienced similar difficulties, and change by and with the communities affected, is particularly relevant to an understanding of the migration experiences of immigrants in precarious situations, dealing with the diff…
(Up) Against the Prefecture
Based on fieldwork carried out in northern France, this article looks at associations and activists-both volunteers and paid employees-working for the cause of foreign nationals, and seeks to understand their role in the reception and defence of these populations through the figure of the "intermediary". By analysing local configurations of intermediation and delegation, the article shows that associations and activists constitute intermediary fi…
French Retirees in Morocco
Based on two surveys conducted between 2014 and 2019 among French retirees living on a year-round or seasonal basis in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco, this article analyses the multiple migratory spatialities of this migration from the "North" to the "South". By examining the privileged dimension of these spatialities, the article contributes to the emerging field of lifestyle migration, with a geographical perspective. Our results present the…
Beneath the Border, Anchorage
sur les routes des Balkans Bajo la frontera, el anclaje.Relaciones al tiempo
An "Indigenous" Migration Control? Coloniality and Contrasting Effects of Peer-to-Peer Intermediation in the Implementation of Voluntary Returns from Morocco
Drawing on data collected during ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2016 and 2018, this article addresses the role of intermediaries from migrant communities in the implementation of voluntary returns run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from Morocco. The article explores the colonial legacies and contrasting effects of this singular form of intermediation in the context of migration. It develops the concept of "indig…
The Right to an Interpreter during Examination of Asylum Applications in France
For several years, nearly 90% of interviews at the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons–Ofpra) and hearings at the Cour nationale du droit d’asile (French National Court of Asylum–CNDA) have provided for the services of an interpreter. These high proportions can be explained by the legal obligation to call in an interpreter if the person being interviewed wants…
"Shattering the Myth of the "Jungle that Kills
A "green hell"; a "jungle that kills": the semantics of political and media discourse hold the Darién jungle responsible and criminalise it as a central actor in migration. However, while the environment is certainly hostile, it cannot bear responsibility for the deaths of thousands of migrants who pass through it every day to reach the United States. This article examines the mythologised space of the Darién region beyond the topography and repr…
From the "Migration Burden" to Migrants' Burden
Confronted with a "migration burden" deemed unbearable by the authorities, Malta is seen as one of the emblematic spaces of exclusion of exiles in Europe. However, the relegation of undesirables, isolated in the island's "open centres", does not equate to their removal from the local economy and society. By looking at circulation between state institutions designed to exclude exiles and the routine organisation of informal labour on the island, t…
Working with Irregular Status
By focusing on the issue of vulnerability and humanitarian considerations, scholarship on recent migration flows has underestimated the role of work as a source of legitimacy and access to rights. Yet, while officially employment is a means of obtaining a residence permit for only a minority of migrants, it remains a determining factor in the existence of migrants with precarious legal status. Based on the French case, this article describes the …
Volunteering for Legal Status. Putting Asylum System Interpreters to Work in the Non-profit Sector
This article examines the manufacture of consent around the unpaid employment in the asylum-seeking population, based on an ethnographic survey of volunteer interpreters in a non-profit organisation that supports asylum seekers. While non-profit actors seek the support and loyalty of interpreters through the implementation of a selective and preferential recruitment process, the latter find in this privileged relationship the ad hoc protection ne…
Dispersal of Exiles
This article addresses the rationales of dispersal of exiled people through the opening of CAOs (centres d’accueil et d’orientation) in two small and medium sized cities facing significant issues related to residential vacancy. The study of the spatialisation of these facilities, on a national scale but also within these cities, reveals the structural dimensions of urban and migration policies. In a context of centralised migration policy giving …
Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan
Basé sur une enquête et un rapport de la Fédération internationale des droits de l’homme de 2009, cet article évalue la politique migratoire du Kazakhstan et du Kirghizstan au regard des normes internationales qui définissent les droits des travailleurs migrants (notamment la Convention sur les travailleurs migrants de l’ONU et les conventions de l’OIT, qui entrent parfois en conflit avec des accords régionaux ou bilatéraux). Pays d’immigration, …
Music and Migration
As a 2,000-year-old city of immigration, Cologne and its festive life are marked by a wide variety of musical trends. The Carnival, which claims, among other things, to be a legacy of the cult of Dionysus, is first mentioned in city documents dating from 1341, and is characterised by mockery of the military authorities (who banned the festival during the Prussian occupation of the city) and blasphemy against the representatives of Catholic author…
Catching One’s Breath in a Small Village in the Cévennes. Ethno-geography of the Reception of Exiles in Rural Areas
Based on ethnological fieldwork, this research note focuses on the reception of exiles in a small village in the low mountain range of the Cévennes (reception of an Afghan family by citizens and reception of eight young Afghan men through a state scheme). Although initially the modalities of reception affected the spatial practices of those concerned and their integration in the territories, both the family and the young men ended up being fully …
The Effects of Territory on Reception and of Reception on Territory. Geography of Asylum in the Territory of Ambert
À partir de l’exemple du territoire ambertois, cet article analyse comment les territoires non métropolitains fragiles, confrontés à des problématiques d’enclavement et de décroissance démographique, agissent sur les dynamiques d’accueil. Les attributs du territoire ambertois constituent à la fois une ressource et une menace pour l’accueil qui apparaît comme paradoxal et inégal. Cet article souligne ensuite comment l’hétérogénéité des espaces véc…
Migration of Violence, Violence in migration. The Vulnerabilities of Central American Populations Going North
Central American migratory journeys take place in risky geographical and socio-political spaces, where situations involving danger and vulnerability take many forms. Based on observation of experiences and contexts of mobility, the author examines expressions of violence as one of the motives for migration, as a constraint affecting the implementation of migration projects and finally, as an effect of migration policies of containment. He postula…
The Challenge of Integrating a Gender Perspective into the Identification of Refugees
At the time of the most recent asylum reform in France, with the adoption of Law No. 2015-925 of 29 July 2015, the Minister of the Interior stated that because “Man has equal dignity everywhere in the world”, “those who are persecuted because of [...] their gender or sexual orientation must be welcomed and protected” on our territory, through recognition of the status of refugee. However, this assertion does not seem so obvious, given the state o…
Par pur par hasard
« Par pur par hasard », c’est en utilisant cette expression que des « néos » disent s’être installés au sein de petites villes du Couserans ariégeois ou bien encore dans les villages perchés des vallées du Lez ou de l’Arac. Ces présences retiennent d’autant plus l’attention qu’elles sont pour une large part le fait de populations étrangères, qui ne saurait se résumer à la seule présence d’Européens du Nord attirés par les aménités environnemental…
Exiles
Notre article décrit quelques premiers moments d’installation de demandeurs d’asile et réfugiés loin des centres urbains, en Bretagne et dans l’Oise, à partir d’une enquête conduite entre 2015 et 2019. Nous avons observé le début du parcours de quelques exilés, leurs pratiques d’habiter, manières de s’adapter, entre contraintes et résistances aux différentes formes et conditions d’hospitalités proposées. Ces premiers temps d’installation sont des…
Dispersal of Exiles
This article addresses the rationales of dispersal of exiled people through the opening of CAOs (centres d’accueil et d’orientation) in two small and medium sized cities facing significant issues related to residential vacancy. The study of the spatialisation of these facilities, on a national scale but also within these cities, reveals the structural dimensions of urban and migration policies. In a context of centralised migration policy giving …
Legal Weapons in Action at the French-Italian border
The establishment of the Schengen area has had a considerable impact on migratory flows to Europe, in particular due to the strengthening of the external borders of this area, which has led to it sometimes being labelled “Fortress Europe”. Conversely, internal border controls were abolished under Article 22 of the Schengen Borders Code, which states that: “Internal borders may be crossed at any point without a border check on persons, irrespectiv…
New Brunswick’s Acadia and Francophone Immigrants
In the early 2000s, New Brunswick’s Acadia, a Canadian Francophone minority community, became a host community for French-speaking immigrants through activism and the law. The discourse of some of its elites and community organisations is very positive about immigration. However, faced with a multi-dimensional institutional incompleteness in the area of immigration, Acadia erects borders in core sectors of its labour market, namely French-languag…
From the "Migration Burden" to Migrants' Burden
Confronted with a "migration burden" deemed unbearable by the authorities, Malta is seen as one of the emblematic spaces of exclusion of exiles in Europe. However, the relegation of undesirables, isolated in the island's "open centres", does not equate to their removal from the local economy and society. By looking at circulation between state institutions designed to exclude exiles and the routine organisation of informal labour on the island, t…
Working with Irregular Status
By focusing on the issue of vulnerability and humanitarian considerations, scholarship on recent migration flows has underestimated the role of work as a source of legitimacy and access to rights. Yet, while officially employment is a means of obtaining a residence permit for only a minority of migrants, it remains a determining factor in the existence of migrants with precarious legal status. Based on the French case, this article describes the …
Volunteering for Legal Status. Putting Asylum System Interpreters to Work in the Non-profit Sector
This article examines the manufacture of consent around the unpaid employment in the asylum-seeking population, based on an ethnographic survey of volunteer interpreters in a non-profit organisation that supports asylum seekers. While non-profit actors seek the support and loyalty of interpreters through the implementation of a selective and preferential recruitment process, the latter find in this privileged relationship the ad hoc protection ne…
The Volunteer Asylum Seeker
Based on an analysis of volunteer programmes for asylum seekers in Italy, this article examines the emergence of a new figure of the "deserving migrant": the migrant volunteer worker, who is grateful and active, and willing to perform unpaid activities in the public interest. In the Italian context, participation in volunteer programmes is seen as proof of the merit required of some foreign populations, especially those subject to asylum policies…
Paris as a Trap? The Organisation of Student Mobility in the Capital during the Second World War
While Paris was one of the world's leading centres of attraction for students, the German occupation considerably changed the situation in terms of academic mobility. In addition to the war itself limiting exchanges, host institutions were weakened or even disappeared. Yet, a stable number of foreign students, often unable to join their relatives, remained in the capital, forced to adapt to this new situation. This article shows how the war, whil…
Beyond Stigma and Solidarity
Between December 2019 and January 2020, the COVID-19 virus began to circulate in the city of Wuhan. Subsequently it spread throughout China and to the rest of the world. In France, from January, hundreds of thousands of people of Chinese origin were alerted to the arrival of this pandemic. The MigraChiCovid research project examines the experiences, representations and personal stories of people of Chinese origin in France at the time of the pand…
The International Organisation for Migration and the Surveillance of the Displaced Populations of the Global South
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) advocates the use of data to stabilise the displaced populations of the Global South. During the 2010s, it developed and refined three digital technologies targeting these populations: the Displacement Tracking Matrix, the MIDAS border surveillance system, and the mobile application MigApp. This article argues that these technologies converge in a surveillant assemblage that seeks to discipline d…
Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis and Migration Management in Turkey and Iraq
Exacerbating pre-existing political and social tensions, the pandemic revealed the structural weaknesses of certain states in dealing with migratory flows and the issue of the reception of exiles and internally displaced persons (IDPs). This case study focuses on Iraq and Turkey. The health and policy responses adopted by both states had specific impacts in a region where the frequency and density of mobility are high, and where conflicts have ma…
Covid-19 Testing, Policy on the Expulsion of Foreigners and Disregard for the Principle of Bodily Integrity
It is a cliché to suggest that the rights of foreigners are both a magnifying mirror of any security policy and the testing ground for policies of constraint that will later be applied to the entire population. The recent history of the interconnection between health policy and the policy on expulsion of foreigners is no exception. It also provides a basis for reflection on the gradual retreat of the principle of bodily integrity in the French le…
A Back-up Nationality. Transmission and Strategic Use of Dual Nationality in the Lille and Geneva Border Spaces
In the border agglomerations of Lille and Geneva, acquiring the nationality of the neighbouring country is a common phenomenon that is reproduced from one generation to the next, without attracting any particular political or academic attention. How can we explain the processes of acquiring and passing on dual nationality when they offer so few comparative benefits in the international arena? What marital and parental choices form the basis of ac…
The Significance of Dispositions for Survival and Preparation for the Ordeals of the Asylum Process
This article focuses on men applying for asylum on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity who are not accommodated in the reception scheme provided for this purpose and who have to compensate for the lack of accommodation and proper socio-administrative support. The strategies they use to make up for these shortcomings are described based on ethnographic research conducted in two associations supporting asylum seekers. These s…
Migrating from Tajikistan to Russia
Studying International Migration as a Continuum between External and Internal Borders
Taking as a starting point a comparative juxtaposition of border situations observed in different field sites during my ethnographic research, this article offers a theoretical and epistemological reflection on how the border is conceptualized and constructed as an object in the study of international migration. It describes how, during my work focused on capturing the effects of the border and the border as an effect, the attention paid to the t…
Social Participation
Empowerment is a concept that is hardly used in the field of migration. However, this approach, which is based on participation, promotion of experiential knowledge, peer support, strengthening through exchange with others who have experienced similar difficulties, and change by and with the communities affected, is particularly relevant to an understanding of the migration experiences of immigrants in precarious situations, dealing with the diff…
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