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Helene Thiollet
Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies)
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Primary Phone: +-33-6-88-16-51-91
ABOUT
Hélène Thiollet is a Research Associate at CERI-Sciences Po. A graduate from the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm A/L98), holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po. She teaches international relations and migration studies. Hélène is also a Research partner at the International Migration Institute at Oxford University. She was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Oxford University in 2010-2011 with the OxPo Research Network. In 2002-2003 she was a Visiting Student at the Harvard University Government Department, with a fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the politics of migration and asylum in the Global South, and she focuses her empirical research on the Middle East and sub-saharan Africa. Helene is coordinating the ANR research project "MobGlob – Global Mobility and Migration Governance" (ANR 2012) with Catherine Wihtol de Wenden.
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Comparative
Foreign Relations
Nationalism
Population Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Yemen
Specialties
Migration Studies
Languages
French (native)
English (advanced)
Arabic (elementary)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2007 | Political science | Sciences Po Paris
MPhil | 2002 | Geography | University Paris 1
MA | 2000 | Classics | La Sorbonne
BA | 1999 | English | La Sorbonne
BA | 1999 | Classics | La Sorbonne
Abstracts
Governing Mobility: Immigration and Asylum in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Sudan Kafala revisited: public and private actors of migration policies in Saudi Arabia Resilient residents: the paradoxes of migrants' identity in Gulf countries