Christophe Bertossi Email & Phone Number

Christophe BERTOSSI is director of the Institut for Democracy, a think tank aimed at promoting research and debates on ways to overcome nativism and other ideologies that have recently questioned the very value of democracy as a political programme of inclusion, equality, emancipation, and dignity for all. Christophe is also a fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations in Paris. Between 2003 and 2021, he was senior research fellow (HDR) and the director of the Centre for Migrations and Citizenship at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) in Paris. He gained his Habilitation (HDR) in 2013 at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and his PhD in Political Sciences in 2000 at the Institute of Political Studies in Aix-en-Provence (France). He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick (UK) between 2001 and 2003, and a visiting fellow at the New York University (2009), the Institute for Advanced Studies-Collegium in Lyon (2010), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (2015). He has co-ordinated several international collaborative research projects on citizenship and ethnicity, notably with the Washington University in St-Louis, the American Sociological Association, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). His books notably include : Les frontières de la citoyenneté en Europe : nationalité, résidence, apparetenance (L'Harmattan, 2001) ; European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship: France and Britain (Palgrave, 2007) ; Les couleurs du drapeau : les militaires issus de l'immigration (Robert Laffont, 2007, with C. Wihtol de Wenden) ; As Cruzadas da Integraçao na Europa (Principia, 2012), and European States and their Muslim Citizens (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with John R. Bowen, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Mona Krook); La citoyenneté à la française: valeurs et réalités (CNRS Editions, 2016); Nativisme: ceux qui sont nés quelque part et veulent en exclure les autres... (Petits matins, 2021, avec Jan Willem Duyvendak et Aurélien Taché); Les mots et les choses de l'immigration en France (Trocadéro, 2022).

Listed skills include Migrations, Sociology Of Institutions, Multiculturalism, Citizenship Studies, and 4 others.