SARAH BACHELLERIE

Geography - History - Sociology

2023 - "Geography of borders and Migration policies in the Mediterranean region", seminar in English (bachelor) at Science Po Menton.

2023 - "Sociology of sports", T.D. in STAPS (bachelor) at Université Nice Côte d'Azur.

2024 - "Qualitative survey methods", T.D. in sociology (bachelor) at Université Nice Côte d'Azur.

2024 - "Mapping migrations", seminar in the "Migration Studies" master's program (M2 level) at Université Nice Côte d'Azur.

Phd Thesis (2021-2024). "The production of a tourist border zone in the Alps. Migration control, relations of domination and visibility struggles on the French-Italian border". Supervised by Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary (Pacte, geography) and Philippe Rygiel (Lahra, history).

Other professional experience in teaching/research :

2021-2022 - Investigation with "Border Forensics", an agency mobilizing innovative methods of spatial and visual analysis inspired by forensic architecture to investigate practices of border violence, wherever such violence might take place. Publication of a counter-investigation into the death of Blessing Matthew, a migrant woman who died at the French-Italian border: https://www.borderforensics.org/investigations/blessing/

2020-2021 - Contract teacher in vocational high school (Lettres / Histoire-géographie) at Lycée Gustave Eiffel in Brignais.

2019-2020 - Research internship at the Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Juridique (CEDEJ) in Egypt (Cairo)

2020 :  Research internship at the Pacte laboratory with Cristina Del Biaggio on the creation of a database of deceased migrants at Alpine borders.

Scientific articles:

2020 - "Chasing Down Foreigners at the French-Italian Border (Hautes-Alpes) as a Matter of Social and Racial Policing", Journal of Alpine Research, 108-2, 2020 (in French and English)

2022 - Del Biaggio, Sarah Bachellerie. "Justice | The border kills: finally the truth about Blessing's death?". Vivre Ensemble. Bulletin de liaison pour la défense du droit d'asile, 2023, 191, pp.26-28.

Cartography :

2017 - Participation in the Close the camps project (MigrEurop), digital mapping of administrative detention centers for foreigners in Europe.

2017 - Maps in Atlas des Migrants en Europe: approches critiques des politiques migratoires, Migreurop collective work published by Armand Collin and edited by O. Clochard.

    "We live together, we fight together: self-management and solidarity at the City Plaza Hotel in Athens", with Sophie Clair-Caliot, on self-organization and international solidarity with people in migration in a squat in Athens.
    "The border, a question mark", on the different forms taken by the border across Europe, with Morgane Dujmovic and Sophie Clair-Caliot
    "Mustafa's journey", from a sensitive mapping workshop with Mustaga Hajj Rachid and Sophie-Clair-Caliot.

2018 - Co-production of maps on control architectures at the French-Italian border and the Serbian-Hungarian border in Cimade's observation report, Une Europe qui s'emmure?, 2018

2022 - Maps in Atlas des Migrations dans le Monde: libertés de circulation, frontières et inégalités, Migreurop collective work published by Armand Collin, 2022

    "A world where there is freedom of movement for women is a world without patriarchy", production from a sensitive mapping workshop with Najeh Kebaier and Bchira Ben Nia, members of the Paris and Lyon undocumented migrants collectives
    "Dans le Briançonnais, des balises pour une libre solidarité", with Morgane Dujmovic, about solidarity practices on the French-Italian border.
    "2020, Sahara, Europe, Mediterranean: an explosion of migrant struggles in the context of the global pandemic", a cartography created from a database of research findings on migrant and refugee struggles in Europe and Africa in 2020.
    "Des batailles pour le droit à vivre en famille" (Battles for the right to live with one's family), on the experiences of families confronted with immigration law, based on the work of Laura Odesso.

Research reports:

2019 - Contribution to the ANAFE report on the state of border rights, published in January 2019.

2021 - "EU-Egypt cooperation on migration policies: depoliticizing the issues, supporting an authoritarian regime", Migreurop observation report on research work carried out in Egypt (2019-2020)

Master theses:

2018 - Research dissertation (M1) under the supervision of Y. Bouagga, defended in September 2018 at ENS Lyon before Y. Bouagga and O. Clochard Dangerous mountain or painful border? The endangerment of undesirable foreigners on the French-Italian border of the Hautes-Alpes.

2019 - Research dissertation (M2) under the supervision of O. Clochard defended in September 2019 at the MIGRINTER laboratory in Poitiers before O. Clochard and C. Del Biaggio: Tracking down and making undesirable foreigners disappear: the manufacture of invisibility in migration control on the Franco-Italian border in the Briançonnais region.

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES

2019 - "La fabrique d'une montagne dangereuse par les pratiques policières de contrôle de la frontière franco-italienne", presentation at the "rencontres de géopolitiques critiques" organized by the PACTES laboratory in Grenoble on borders in natural spaces, discussion moderated by Isabelle Saint-Saëns, Cristina Del Biaggio with Charles Heller, Mohamed Mouhamadou Amani

2020 - "Links between migration control and tourism on the Briançonnais border". Presentation at the "Territoires et savoirs partagés" study day co-organized by ANR Liminal and actors from civil society in the Briançonnais region.

2021 - "Chasing down foreigners at the French-Italian border", presentation at the CPA conference: "C'est encore loin la frontière?"

2021 - "La coopération UE/Egypte sur les politiques migratoires : dépolitier les enjeux, soutenir un régime autoritaire", as part of the "Politiques Migratoires Africaines" conference organized by IREMA (Marseille)

2022 - "3 scales to understand violence at the Alpine border", presentation with Cristina Del Biaggio as part of the Labex ITEM Summer School.

2022 - Discussant at the ANR Dispow study day in Toulouse "Gouverning the exiles at borders" on the theme: "All "border-makers"? Policemen and transporters facing migration control".

2023 - "The French-Italian border in the high Alps as a site for the (re)production of relations of domination based on class, race and nationality", presentation at the study day on "Relations of domination in the mountains" organized by the Gustave Eiffel University.

2023 - "Memory, body and space: reflexions on a counter-investigation on violence at the alpine border", talk with Cristina Del Biaggio at the GDR Mémoire "Mémoires" symposium in Carry-le-Rouet (October 2023).

MEDIA INTERVENTIONS

    05/31/2022: "A l'air libre" (Médiapart). "Death of Blessing Matthew: gendarmes implicated". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYFiMVXFY28
    17/11/2023. "Grand reportage" (France culture). "Briançon, une zone-frontière à bout de souffle". https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-grand-reportage/briancon-une-zone-frontiere-a-bout-de-souffle-9498707

RESEARCH-RELATED PERSONAL PROJECTS

Theme: Migration / Borders

2016-2019 - Co-publishing of the blog, derootees.wordpress.com, documenting border closures in various European and Middle Eastern countries, and writing of articles based on autonomous field research in Italy, the Balkans, Turkey and Lebanon.

2021 - Exhibition "Des routes en déroute" with Sophie Clair-Caliot, Refai Ankosh, Rafouf Onex and Sohir Yoghi, on borders in Europe and the Middle East. Presentation of the exhibition at the festive mobilization day organized by the "3A Val d'Azun" association (Hautes-Pyrénées) and as part of the Printemps des Migrations (Nice).

Themes : Revolution in Sudan / Mobilization of the Sudanese diaspora

2020-2023 - Member of the editorial board of the collaborative French-Sudanese media "Sudfa", that aims at translating the contemporary issues in Sudan into French.