Previous work
RESEARCH #1
Race kills twice.
A history of racist crimes in France, 1970–2000 (Syllepse, 2021)
My thesis, published in 2021, examines the denunciation and political treatment of racial violence affecting North African migrants and their descendants between the 1970s and the late 1990s. This research sits at the intersection of the sociology of law and Critical Race Theory.
Drawing on archives, interviews, participant observation and a database of 731 cases, it constitutes the first comprehensive study of racist crimes in contemporary France.
By tracing the legal career of racist motives, it exposes the role of law itself in the production and reproduction of racial categories, and illuminates the structural and systemic dimensions of racism in France.
English version coming soon
2025 RESEARCH AWARD
Amazigh Diaspora Women's Award
RESEARCH #2
Addressing the racial issue in order to move beyond it. The French case.
(University of Edinburgh, 2023–2024).
I subsequently joined the research project "A New Democratic (Dis)order? Race, Identity and Political Mobilisation in France and the UK, c.1970–present", led by historian Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh) and funded by the British Academy.
The project brought together a multidisciplinary team of British and French researchers — historians, sociologists and political scientists — with the aim of studying identity politics in the United Kingdom and France.
The central research objective was to move beyond the controversies surrounding identity politics by historicising the demands of minority groups in both countries. At a more local scale, the study examined the relationship to the notion of race and the processes of individual subjectivation at work within collective movements challenging racial categories and their effects.