French, Iranian - A Critical Anthropology of Morals

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Chowra MAKAREMI
French, Iranian
Born in 10/25/1980 in Shiraz (Iran)
IRIS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
96, boulevard Raspail – 75006 Paris, France
(011) 331.46.54.24.30
[email protected]
Tenured researcher, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institute for Interdisciplinary
Research on Social Issues, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, since
October 2011
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, European Research Council, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (EHESS), Paris, May 2010- September 2011
Supervisor: Didier Fassin
EDUCATION
PhD in Anthropology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, 2010
Dissertation: “Waiting Zones. An ethnography of border detention in France”. Supervisor: Mariella Pandolfi
Topics: undocumented migrant confinement, legal resistance, humanitarian care, borders, asylum,
transnational migrations, anthropology in the margins. (A synopsis of dissertation is attached)
M.A in International Relations (Cum Laude), Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Science-Po), Paris, 2005
Thesis: “The living conditions of detainees in the holding area of Charles de Gaulle airport in France”.
Supervisor: Didier Bigo
M.A in French Modern Literature (Magna Cum Laude), University of Paris 10-Nanterre, 2002
Thesis: “J.J. Rousseau’s The New Heloise as an intertext of Choderlos de Laclos’ Dangerous Liaisons”.
Supervisor: André Magnan
B.A in French Modern Literature, University of Paris 10, 2000.
B.A in Persian Language and Civilization, Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Langues’O),
Paris, 2003.
Visiting Student
Visiting PhD student, EHESS and University of Paris 13, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les
enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), Paris, January–September 2007.
T.I.R.E.S. fellow (Transnationalism, International migration, Race, Ethnocentrism and the State), Center for
European Studies, New York University, New York City, Fall 2003.
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LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
French: Native language
Persian: Mother tongue
English: Fluent
German, Italian: Smattering
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011-2012
2009
2005-2009
2005-2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
2003
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation. “Legacies of Post-revolutionary
Violence among the Iranian Diaspora: Memory and Political Subjectivity at the Margins of
the Islamic State”. US$ 20, 770
Writing scholarship, University of Montreal. C$ 4,000
Doctoral Research Scholarship Program for Foreign Students of the Government of
Quebec (FQRNT). National Rank: 3rd. C$ 25,000/year
Admission scholarship, University of Montreal. C$ 4,000/year
Research Scholarship, Institute for European Studies, University of Montreal-McGill
University. C$ 6,000
Research Scholarship, Center for European and German Studies, University of
Montreal. C$ 4,000
Scholarship from the French government, Ministry of Education. 5,000 Euros
T.I.R.E.S. Grant (Transnationalism, International Migration, Racism, Ethnicity and the
State). $1,500
Exchange Scholarship from the Regional Council of Ile de France (Paris). 1,500 Euros
RESEARCH GROUPS AND COMMITTEES
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Towards a Critical Moral Anthropology, Research project funded by the European Research Council,
2009–2012 (Dir. Didier Fassin).
The New Frontiers of French Society, Research project funded by the National Research Agency,
French Government, 2006–2008 (Dir. Didier Fassin).
CERIUM, Center for International Studies and Research, University of Montreal
[http://www.cerium.ca/Makaremi-Chowra]
TERRA, Academic Network on Refugee Studies [http://www.reseau-terra.eu], Scientific committee.
Altérités, Revue d’anthropologie du contemporain [http://www.alterites.ca/], Editorial board, vice-editor.
ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE
Research assistant for Professor Mariella Pandolfi, Department of Anthropology, University of
Montreal, 2005–2008. Worked on issues related to humanitarian interventions, human security, and the
anthropology of violence; coordinated transdisciplinary research projects; co-organized sessions in major
academic conferences; assisted in preparing grants and funding proposals.
 Social and Political Passions. Transdisciplinary research program, University of Montreal, University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2005–
2008 (Dir. Mariella Pandolfi). Program coordinator.
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Research Group on Military and Humanitarian Interventions (GRIMH), University of Montreal, 2006–
2009 (Dir. Mariella Pandolfi). Coordinator. Organization of conference series on “Humanitarian Aid in
Crisis?” (2006), “Contemporary States of Violence” (2007), and “Protagonists of Contemporary Italy”
(2008).
CONTRIBUTIONS
My publications include 4 books, 17 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and 5 non-refereed
articles and reports:
Book
C. Makaremi, 2011, Le cahier d’Aziz. Au coeur de la révolution iranienne, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Témoins
Edited Books and Volumes
C. Kobelinsky and C. Makaremi (ed.), 2009, Confinement des étrangers : l’enfermement dehors,
Bellecombe en Bauges, Éditions du Croquant.
C. Kobelinsky and C. Makaremi (ed.), 2008, Special Issue “Alien Exclusion: between Circulation and
Confinement”, Cultures et Conflits, No. 71, Summer 2008, Paris, l’Harmattan, 188 p.
[www.conflits.org/index15683.html].
L. Kalaora, C. Makaremi and J. Baron, 2008, “Thinking Commitment”, Alterités, Vol. 5, No. 2, October 2008,
142 p. [http://www.alterites.ca/dernier.html].
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
C. Makaremi, “Waiting Zone”, in J. Creet and A. Kitzmann (ed.), Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary
Approaches to Memory Studies, Toronto, U. of Toronto Press, 2011.
C. Makaremi, “The Utopias of Power: from Human Security to the Responsibility to Protect”, in M. Pandolfi
and D. Fassin, Contemporary States of Emergency, New York, Zone Books, 2010, pp. 107–128.
C. Makaremi, “Governing Borders in France: from Extraterritorial to Humanitarian Confinement”, in A. Pratt
and L. Sossin (ed.) “Dilemmas of Discretion”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Fall 2009 (in
press), Vol. 24, No. 3, 2009, pp. 411–432.
C. Makaremi, “Les audiences du 35 quarter: la procédure de jugement en zone d’attente”, in D. Fassin
(ed.), Les nouvelles frontières de la société française, Paris, La Découverte, 2010, pp. 437–458.
C. Makaremi and C. Kobelinsky, 2009, “Introduction. Confinement des étrangers : l’enfermement dehors” in
C. Kobelinsky and C. Makaremi (ed.), Confinement des étrangers : l’enfermement dehors, Bellecombe
en Bauges, Éditions du Croquant, pp. 11–23.
C. Makaremi, 2009, “Violence et refoulement dans la zone d’attente de Roissy” in C. Kobelinsky and C.
Makaremi (ed.), Confinement des étrangers : l’enfermement dehors, Bellecombe en Bauges, Éditions
du Croquant, pp. 41–62.
C. Makaremi, 2008, “Participer en observant: Étudier et assister les étrangers aux frontières”, in D. Fassin
and A. Bensa, Politiques de l’enquête, Paris, La Découverte, pp. 165–183.
C. Makaremi, 2008, “Les ‘zones de non-droit’ : un dispositif pathétique de la démocratie”, in M. Pandolfi and
V. Crapanzano (ed.), Special Issue, Passions politiques, Anthropologie et Société, Fall 2008, pp. 81–
98.
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C. Makaremi and C. Kobelinsky, 2008, “Editorial. Alien exclusion: between circulation and confinement”, in
C. Kobelinsky and C. Makaremi (ed.), Special Issue “Alien Exclusion: between Circulation and
Confinement”, Cultures et Conflits, No. 71, Summer 2008, Paris, l’Harmattan, pp. 7–29.
C. Makaremi, 2008, “Penalizing movement, reframing borders: alien detention in the French ‘waiting zone’”,
in C. Kobelinsky and C. Makaremi (ed.), Special Issue “Alien Exclusion: between Circulation and
Confinement”, Cultures et Conflits, No. 71, Summer 2008, Paris, l’Harmattan, pp. 55–73.
C. Makaremi and L. Kalaora, 2008, “Introduction”, in L. Kalaora, C. Makaremi and J. Baron, 2008, “Thinking
commitment”, Alterities, Vol. 5, No. 2, October 2008 [http://www.alterites.ca/dernier.html].
C. Makaremi, 2008, “Engaging with Silence. Interview with Vincent Crapazano”, in L. Kalaora, C. Makaremi
and J. Baron, 2008, “Thinking commitment”, Alterities, Vol. 5, No. 2, October 2008
[http://www.alterites.ca/dernier.html].
C. Makaremi, 2008, “Question de méthode... à propos de Noir Canada, Pillage, corruption et criminalité en
Afrique. Entretien avec Alain Deneault”, in L. Kalaora, C. Makaremi and J. Baron, 2008, “Thinking
commitment”, Alterities, Vol. 5, No. 2, October 2008 [http://www.alterites.ca/dernier.html].
(Under pseudonym) H. Sorg, 2008, “Le massacre des prisonniers politiques de 1988 en Iran : une
mobilisation forclose ?”, in S. Lefranc and L. Mathieu (ed.), Raisons politiques, Special Issue, “Les
victims écrivent leur Histoire”, 2008/02, No. 30, Paris, Presse de Sciences-Po, pp. 59–87.
C. Makaremi, 2007, “Alien confinement in Europe: violence and the Law. The case of Roissy-Charles de
Gaulle airport in France", in Hogan, C. and M. Marín-Dòmine (ed.) Literature of concentration camps,
Newcastle, Cambridge Scholar Press, pp. 39–54.
C. Makaremi, 2007, “Vies 'en instance' : Le temps et l’espace du maintien en zone d’attente. Le cas de la
'Zapi 3' de Roissy-Charles-De-Gaulle”, in M. Agier (ed.) “Terrains d’asiles. Réfugiés, déplacés, sanspapiers face aux dispositifs de contrôle et d’assistance”, Asylon(s) No. 2, November 2007
[terra.rezo.net/rubrique126.html].
C. Makaremi, 2007, “'De l’esprit des lois'. Quelques éléments de réflexion à propos de la 'loi ADN' en
France”, in D. Koveker (ed.), Special Issue, “Europe/Afrique : Regards croisés sur une 'Europe
spirituellement indéfendable'”, Eurostudia, Vol. 3, No. 2, December 2007,
[http://www.erudit.org/revue/euro/2007/v3/n2.html].
Non-refereed Articles and Other Contributions
C. Makaremi, 2007, “Prisonniers du passage. Pour une ethnographie des zones d’attente”, Atopia,
“Détroits”, No. 11, November 2007 [http://www.atopia.tk/index.php/fr/detroits11.html].
M. Pandolfi and C. Makaremi, 2006, “La sécurité humaine ”, Parachute, “Violence unlimited”, No. 127, Oct.
2006, pp. 143–148.
C. Makaremi, 2005, “Les zones d’attente”, Journal Intime du Massif central, “L’Étranger”, No. 8, Winter
2005, pp. 19–27.
Association Nationale d'Assistance aux Frontières pour les Étrangers (Anafé), 2004, “La frontière et le
droit : la zone d’attente de Roissy sous le regard de l’Anafé ”, Nov. 2004, 72 p. Contribution to the
Public Report of the Human Rights defense board Anafé (Association Nationale d'Assistance aux
Frontières pour les Étrangers ; including Amnesty International, the French Syndicate of Magistracy,
etc.). Contribution on Chapter 2, “Asylum demands”, pp. 13–22.
United Nations Development Program, 2004, Security with a human face. National Human Development
Report 2004: Afghanistan. Contribution on Chapter 4, “Causes and Consequences of Insecurities”, pp.
97–123.
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Translations from English
M. Herzfeld, Forthcoming 2011, “L’honneur et la honte : quelques problèmes dans l’analyse comparative
des systèmes moraux” in D. Fassin and S. Lézé (ed.), Anthropologie de la morale : une anthologie,
Paris, PUF, (Letter of acceptance available on demand).
D. Parkin, Forthcoming 2011, “Mal et moralité” in D. Fassin and S. Lézé (ed.), Anthropologie de la morale :
une anthologie, Paris, PUF, (Letter of acceptance available on demand).
S. Tadjbakhsh, 2009, “Paix libérale et assistance en Asie centrale” in G. Devin (ed.), Faire la paix. La part
des institutions internationales, Paris, Presses de Sciences-po, pp. 131–150.
S. Karakayali, S. Hess and V. Tsianos, 2009, “Migrations transnationales : théorie et méthode d’analyse
ethnographique des régimes frontaliers” in C. Kobelinsky and C. Makaremi (ed.), Confinement des
étrangers : l’enfermement dehors, Bellecombe en Bauges, Éditions du Croquant, pp. 299–316.
S.Willen, 2008, “Paix libérale et assistance en Asie centrale”L’hyperpolitique du 'Plus jamais ça !' :
demandeurs d’asile soudanais, turbulence gouvernementale et politiques de contrôle des réfugiés en
Israël”, Cultures & Conflits, 71, Fall 2008, pp. 93–112.
Roberts, A. F., “La "Géographie Processuelle" : Un nouveau paradigme pour les aires culturelles”,
Lendemains, 2006, Vol. 31, No. 122–23, pp. 41–61.
CONFERENCES
I have co-/organized 13 conferences, panels, and conference series, contributed in 32 conferences
and panels, and talked in 7 graduate seminars and 3 public conferences, among which:
Organization of Academic Conferences and Panels
2012: Migrations critiques: repenser les mobilités humaines en Méditerranée, conference organized at the
EHESS, November 8, Paris. (co-organizer)
2010: “Ethnography in the courtroom: the everyday experience of justice and adjudication”, panel scheduled
at the American Anthropologists Association 109th annual meetings, Circulations, November 16–21,
New Orleans. (co-organizer)
2008: “Movement and control: technologies and practices of alien confinement”, panel organized at the
American Anthropologists Association 107th annual meetings, Inclusion, Collaboration and
Engagement, November 19–23, San Francisco. (co-organizer)
2008: “Thinking commitment”, roundtable organized at the Canadian French-speaking Sociologists and
Anthropologists Association (ACSALF) annual meeting, Mutations, Obstacles et Tremplins de la
Critique Sociale, October 21–24, Montreal. (co-organizer)
2008: “Alien confinement in Europe: field perspectives”, panel organized at the European Association of the
Social Anthropologists 10th biannual conference, Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality, August 26–30,
Ljubljana. (co-organizer)
2007: Assistant to the Chair Mariella Pandolfi at the International Office for Migration (IOM) 2nd International
Meeting on “Healing the war. Psychosocial experiences and perspectives”, Youth as a key to
sustainable post-conflict recovery, December 10–12, 2007, Geneva.
2007: “Political Passions”, panel organized at the international conference “Anthropologie des cultures
globalisées” (30th anniversary of the journal Anthropologie et Sociétés), Terrains Complexes et Enjeux
Disciplinaires, November 7–11, Quebec City. (co-organizer)
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2007: International conference on “Alien confinement in Europe: Field perspectives”, École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), September 3–4, Paris. (co-organizer)
2007: “Cosmo-police: Neoliberalism and Control”, symposium organized at the Canadian Anthropology
Society (CASCa) and American Ethnological Society (AES) joint annual conference, Cosmopolitanism
and Indigeneities, May 8–12, Montreal. (co-organizer)
2006-2007: Transdisciplinary conference series on “Humanitarian intervention in crisis: states of emergency
and transnational politics of survival”, GRIMH, University of Montreal, October–May. (coordinator)
2006: “Post-colonial disorders”, panel organized at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCa) and
American Ethnological Society (AES) joint annual conference, Human nature, Human identity, May 9–
14, Montreal. (co-organizer)
2005: “Political Passions”, Workshop on the interdisciplinary study group on “Social and Political Passions”
(CNRS Paris, UCLA, U. of Montreal), September, Paris. (coordinator)
Contributions in Academic Conferences and Panels
2011: “The 1988 Masssacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: A Quest for Justice”, Symposium of the Oxford
Transitional Justice Research Network, University of Oxford, October 25, Oxford.
2011: “Political Prisoners Beyond the Wall, the World, the Art”, Conference at the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, OISE, University of Toronto, December 10, Toronto.
2011: “Immediate trials: sentencing delinquents in France”, A Critical Anthropology of Morals, workshop at
the Institute for Advanced Studies, 28 June, Princeton.
2011: “Le régime de garde-à-vue en comparution immédiate : enjeux légaux et moraux”, Police –
Institutions, roundtable at the Annual meeting of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les
enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), 17 June, Paris.
2010: “Antigone's Journey: Remembering the 1988 Massacre in Iran”, paper scheduled at the American
Anthropologists Association 109th annual meetings, Circulation, November 17–21, New Orleans.
2010: “Linearity and violence: the barely audible voice of asylum seekers”, conference given at the
University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), GRIPAL, conference series on “Suffering and politics”,
March 23, Montreal.
2009: “The Meaning of Incoherence: Asylum and Deportation in France”, paper presented at the American
Anthropologists Association 108th annual meetings, The end/s of anthropology, December 2–6,
Philadelphia.
2009: “Enquêter en zone d'attente: la participation observante dans un centre de détention frontalière”,
paper presented at the workshop on “Demandeurs d'asile, sans-papiers: une approche ethnographique
des dispositifs de contrôle et d’assistance”, University of Lausanne, November 11.
2009: “Penalizing Movement, Reframing Borders. Alien Detention in France”, International conference
“Borders and Boundaries”, Columbia University, May 1–2, New York.
2009: “Reframing Interventions: The Human Security Continuum”, Conference “Humanitarianism, Politics, &
Culture”, Carleton University, May 20, Ottawa.
2009: “Border detention: migration control, discretion and the rule of law”, International Symposium Policing
Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives from North America, Europe, and the Post-Soviet
Region, University of Toronto, April 1, Toronto.
2009: “Power and the law: conceptualizing legal resistance”, International Conference “Penser avec
Foucault”, March 13–14, Brussels.
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2008: “Frontiers of violence: deportation in France”, paper presented at the American Anthropologists
Association 107th annual meetings, Inclusion, Collaboration and Engagement, November 19–23, San
Francisco.
2008: “Antigone 88”, video presented at the International Conference on the 20th anniversary of Iranian
Political Prisoners’ massacre in summer 1988, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), September
19–21, Montreal.
2008: “The agents of alien detention: mediation and outsourcing of a state control”, International
Conference Terrains d'Asiles. Corps, Espaces, Politiques, EHESS, September 18–20, Paris.
2008: “Border zones and alien detention in France”, paper presented at the European Association of the
Social Anthropologists 10th biannual conference, Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality, August 26–30,
Ljubljana.
2008: “Expulsions: biopolitics and technical violence”, paper presented at the International Workshop on
Michel Foucault, Le gouvernement de soi et des autres, (org. Salvatore Palidda and Alessandro Dal
Lago), University of Genoa, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, June 9–12, Genoa.
2008: “Border Detention in Europe”, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies
Association 49th annual convention, Bridging Multiple Divides, March 25–28, San Francisco.
2007: “Alien confinement in Europe: violence and the law”, paper presented at the Oxford Refugee Studies
Center International Conference on Forced Migration/Refugee Studies, University of Oxford, December
7–8, Oxford.
2007: “‘Zones of no-right’: an emotional economy of democratic space”, paper presented at the International
Conference “Anthropologie des cultures globalisées” (30th anniversary of the journal Anthropologie et
Sociétés), Terrains Complexes et Enjeux Disciplinaires, November 7–11, Quebec City.
2007: “The confinement of aliens and its effects in the public space”, paper presented at the International
Conference on Animal Politique, Animal Pathétique. Emotions et Lieux du Politique, (org. Marc Abélès
and Sophie Wahnich), Laios, CNRS-EHESS, October 25, Paris.
2007: Introductory session, International Conference on Alien confinement in Europe: Field perspectives,
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), September 3–4, Paris.
2007: with Mariella Pandolfi, “Force of law, force of securization. The exception: a category of contemporary
violence”, paper presented at the Association Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS) 75th Meetings,
Université du Québec à Trois Rivières (UQTR), May 7–8, Trois-Rivières (Quebec).
2007: “Mediation, outsourcing, privatization: manoeuvres of state border control and the ‘humanitarian’
regime of alien detention in France”, paper presented at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCa)
and American Ethnological Society (AES) joint annual conference, Cosmopolitanism and Indigeneities,
May 8–12, Toronto.
2007: “Waiting zones for people in proceedings”, presentation at the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire
sur les enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), EHESS-University of Paris 13, January 8, Paris.
2006: “Control and resistance of aliens detained in waiting zones: Thinking new paradigms of violence at
the borders”, paper presented at the American Anthropological Association 105th annual meetings,
Critical Intersections/Dangerous Issues, November 16–20, San Jose.
2006: “Memory and subjectivation in border detention: exploring the confiscated narratives of asylum
seekers confronted to forced expulsion”, paper presented at the Workshop of the Memory Culture
Group, Memory and Migration (org. Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann), York University, Department of
English, September 14–15, Toronto.
2006: “The 1988 massacres in Iran: impunity, memory, mobilization”, paper presented at the conference
Mobilisation des victimes, la Sorbonne and University of Paris 10, June 15-16, Paris.
2006: “The living conditions of undocumented aliens ‘waiting’ at the borders of the EU: the case of the
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“zone d’attente” in Charles de Gaulle airport in France”, paper presented at the European Community
Studies Association in Canada (ECSA-C) 6th Biennial Conference, What Kind of Europe?
Multiculturalism, Migration, Political Community and Lessons from Canada, Friday-Saturday May 19–
20, Victoria, B.C.
2006: “Disorder at the border: control and resistance of undocumented aliens in holding areas”, paper
presented at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCa) and American Ethnological Society (AES)
joint annual conference, Human nature, Human identity, May 9–14, Montreal.
2006: “(In)security of the victims: the limits of the Human Security paradigm in managing forced
displacement in Afghanistan, 1979–2004”, paper presented at the conference L’humanitaire, ses
formes et ses enjeux : état de la recherche québécoise, (org. Francine Saillant), University of Laval,
Department of anthropology, February 23, Quebec City.
2005: “Waiting areas in the EU: Questioning the borders of democracy”, panel “The State, Sovereignty and
Identity”, paper presented at the conference Conceptualizing International Relations: The Road Ahead,
Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent and Institut d’Études Politiques, May 20–
22, Brussels.
Public Conferences and Interventions
2011: “Aziz’s Notebook: At the heart of the Iranian revolution”, Brown bag seminar, de Hans & Tamar
Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, McGill University, November 16, Montreal.
2008: “Alien confinement in France and Canada”, Conference organized by the Chaire de recherche du
Canada en droit international des migrations (CDIM) and the Groupe de Recherche sur l’Intervention
Militaire et Humanitaire (GRIMH), University of Montreal, November 26. [http://www.cerium.ca/Leconfinement-des-etrangers-entre]
2006: “The living conditions of undocumented aliens detained at the borders: report of observations in the
waiting zone of Roissy airport in France in 2004 and 2005”, Conference organized by the Chaire de
recherche du Canada en droit international des migrations, University of Montreal, January 23.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Lecturer, Institute of Political Studies, Lille, 2010
Master’s Program in International Relations, Graduate seminar.
Designed and taught a course on “Forced Migrations in the Contemporary World” to a class of 23
graduate students.
Supervised a Master’s thesis on “The concept of ‘safe country of origin’ in the French asylum system”.
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Lecturer, Université Paris Est-Creteil, Paris, 2010
Master’s Program in Social Work, Graduate seminar.
Taught a course on “Immigration: a sociological approach” to a class of 20 graduate students.
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Lecturer, Université Paris Est-Creteil, Paris, 2010
Undergraduate Program in Education, Introductory course.
Taught a course on “Deviance and social control” to classes of 35 to 45 undergraduate students.
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Lecturer, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, 2007 and 2006
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Master’s Program in International Studies. Graduate seminar.
Designed and taught a course on “Human Security in a globalized world” to classes of 18 to 25
graduate students.
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Tutor, Institute of Political Studies, Paris, 2005
Master’s Program in Political science and International Relations
Organized tutorial sessions on Methodology and International Relations for groups of 5 to 8 graduate
students.
Invited Speaker to Classes and Seminars (selected interventions)
“Judging in immediate trials: moral and legal evaluation”, Professors Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman and
Jean-Sebastien Eidelimann’s Graduate Seminar “Economies morales contemporaines”, EHESS, Paris,
3 January 2012.
“Fieldwork under tension”, presentation in Professor Mariella Pandolfi’s graduate seminar “Places and
Times: Contemporary Words” (ANT 6120), University of Montreal, Department of Anthropology,
February 8, 2006.
“Violence and trauma: investigating border detention”, presentation in Professors Didier Fassin and Eric
Fassin’s graduate seminar “New Fields, New objects of Anthropology”, Ecole Normale Supérieure,
ENS-Cachan, Paris, January 19, 2007.
“Lost in time and space: the experience of border detention”, presentation in Professor Michel Agier’s
graduate seminar “Introduction to Researches in Refugee Studies”, EHESS, Paris, December 14,
2007.
“Mobilizing the law: in the cause of asylum seekers”, presentation in Professor Liora Israel’s graduate
seminar “Uses and political mobilization of Law: comparative approach”, December 18, 2007.
OTHER EXPERIENCES
2005
2004–2005
2004
2003
2004–2005 &
2007
2000
International Office for Migration (IOM), Migration Health Services (MHS). Consultant
for the “Psychosocial and Cultural Integration Unit”, IOM Rome Mission, Italy.
Sustainable Growth and Social Responsibility Department, Danone Corporation, Paris.
Coordinator of a program to implement and monitor compliance with International
Labor Organization (ILO) labor rights in the supply chain of the corporation.
Humanitarian emergency mission with Médecins du Monde in Bam, Iran, after the
earthquake. Translator.
Foundry Theatre, New York (Broadway). Internship. Public event manager. Coordinator
of a public campaign on civil liberties since 2001 in the US within the “PATRIOT-Act
free zone” campaign in NYC, along with the Bill of Right Defense Campaign Board.
Legal counselor in the waiting area of Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, with the
Human Rights defense NGO: Association Nationale d'Assistance aux Frontières pour
les Étrangers (ANAFÉ)
President and founder of the association AMEWUGA (community projects in the city of
Kpalimé, Togo). The association supports high school and university students with
school fees (2001–2008). It has built a nearby shop (2006–07), set up a center for
physical rehabilitation (2007), and is currently building a community shelter for
vulnerable children [http://amewuga.fr/].
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CREATIVE WORK
C. Makaremi, “Nos nuits sont froides”, in Couleurs…Silence! [collection of short stories], Paris, L’Atelier,
2007. (Awarded the first prize in the short story competition organized by the Institute of Oriental
Languages and Civilizations, April 2002 and the first prize (ex-aequo) in the short story competition
organized by the University of Paris, May 12, 2000.)
C. Makaremi, “Antigone 88”, Short Film (21 min.), screened at Paris International Human Rights Film
Festival, July 2-4, 2009.