MAZZELLA Sylvie

Summary book
- Sociologie des migrations, Que sais-je?, PUF, 2021 (3rd ed.), 127 p.

Editing of books and issues of journals with scientific committees
- Baptista L., Mazzella S., Pereira P., Silva Nunes J-P., (eds), Pensar o Território. Jean-Claude Chamboredon, uma abordagem sociológica pioneir critical edition and translation, Lisboa, Humus, 2020.
- Mazzella S., Perrin D. (dir.), Frontières, sociétés et droit en mouvement. Dynamiques et politiques migratoires de l'Europe au Sahel, Belgium, Bruylant, 2019.
- Baby-Collin V., Mazzella S., Mourlane S., Regnard C., Sintès P.,(dir.), Migrations et temporalité en Méditerranée. Les migrations à l'épreuve du temps (XIXe-XXIè siècle), Paris, Karthala, coll. " L'atelier méditerranéen ", 2017, 408 p.
- Mazzella S., Romano A., Vargiu A (eds), 2017, Migrations and citizenship in southern Europe, Sociologia Online, n. 10.
- "Observer les mobilités étudiantes Sud-Sud", Cahiers de la recherche sur l'éducation et les savoirs (ed. with Elieth Eybiyi, University of Abomey Calavi, Benin), issue 13, spring 2014.
– Borders, Mobilities and Migrations. Perspectives from the Mediterranean 19-21 st Century (ed. with L. Anteby-Yemini, V. Baby Collin, C. Parizot, S. Mourlane, C. Regnard, P. Sintès) (eds), Peter Lang, "Regional Integration and Social Cohesion", Brussels, 2014,
- "Transformations des mobilités étudiantes Sud-Nord: approches démographiques et sociologiques", Cahiers québécois de démographie (ed. with Stéphanie Garneau, University of Ottawa), volume 42, number 2, autumn 2013.
– Student globalisation. The Maghreb between North and South (dir.), Karthala / IRMC, "Hommes et sociétés" series, 2009, 401 p.
- L'enseignement supérieur dans la globalisation libérale. Une comparaison Maghreb, Afrique, Canada et France (dir.), Maisonneuve & Larose / IRMC, coll. "Maghreb et Sciences Sociales", 2008, 262 p.
– Marseille, between city and port. The destinies of the rue de la République(ed. with Pierre Fournier), with an afterword by J.-C. Chamboredon, Paris, La Découverte, coll. "Recherches", 2004, 314 p.

Articles published in peer-reviewed journals
– "The triple twist of student mobility. The financialisation of higher education, competition on the global market and increased social differentiation of pathways". (with Valérie Erlich, Etienne Gérard), Agora débats/jeunesses, 2021/2 ( No 88 ), 53-69.
– "Introduction. Observing South-South student mobility in the internationalisation of higher education". (with Elieth P. Eyebiyi), Cahiers de la recherche sur l'éducation et les savoirs, 13, 2014, 7-24.
– "Presentation of the issue. Transformations in South-North student mobility: demographic and sociological approaches". (with Stéphanie Garneau), Cahiers québécois de démographie, volume 42, number 2, autumn 2013, 183- 200.
– "The transnational horizon of an extended Tunisian family (with H. Boubakri), Autrepart, n°57-58, 2011/1-2, p. 111-126.
- Lilia Ben Salem. Comments on sociology in Tunisia. Interview with Sylvie Mazzella", Genèses, n°75, 2009, p.125-142.
- Marsiglia: città portuale e di immigrazione. Riflessioni sulla "seconda generazione", Mondi Migranti, n°3, Genova, Franco Angeli, 2008, p.12-26.
– "Life and death of the right to territorial asylumSociétés Contemporaines, n°57, 2005, p.105-119.
– "Tunisia between transit and immigration. Migration policies and reception conditions for African migrants in Tunis".(with H. Boubakri), Autrepart n°36, 2005, p. 149-166.
– "Belsunce, an urban laboratory for migration?2004, note critique, issue 7 Migrations, Terrains&Travaux, Cahiers du département de sciences sociales, ENS de Cachan septembre, 2004, p.19-25.
– "What timeframe should be used to analyse land speculation? (with P. Fournier), Cahier du Centre de Recherche Historique, EHESS, n°26, 2001, p. 173-188. [article online.
– "The place of the market in Marseille's urban policies(with N. Roudil), Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, Echanges/Surface, no. 78, 1997, pp. 65-71.
– "Belsunce, Muslim pupils sheltered by the Catholic schoolLes Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, L'école dans la ville, 1996, no. 75.
– "La Ville-Mémoire; Quelques usages de la Mémoire collective de Maurice Halbwachs" (The Memory City; some uses of Maurice Halbwachs' Collective Memory)Enquête, La ville des Sciences Sociales, n°4, EHESS, Parenthèses, 1996, p. 177-189.
- Le quartier Belsunce à Marseille, les immigrés dans les traces de la ville bourgeoise", Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, Patrimoine et Modernité, no. 72, 1995, pp. 119-125.
– "Retired women and men: urban patterns of mobility (with M. Haicault), Canadian journal Recherches féministes, 1996, Volume 9 "Les âges de la vie", Issue 2, pp. 137-146.
– "Itineraries of women activists from associations in Marseilles: forms of narrativeProvence historique, Femmes et politique en Provence, XVIIIe-XXe siècles, 186, T. 46, 1996, p. 527-541.

Other magazines
- Mazzella S., "Une libéralisation de l'enseignement supérieur au Maghreb", Canadian diversity/Diversité canadienne, issue "International Migration: the Emergence of the Mobile Student", vol. 7, April 2011, pp. 113-120.
- Mazzella S., "La rue de la République. Le destin d'une artère haussmannienne", (with P. Fournier), revue Vieille Maison de France, n°221, 2008, p. 63-70.
- Mazzella S;, "Belsunce: entre ZEP privée et REP public" (with B. Mossé), Diversité (Ville-Ecole-Intégration), "L'école pour tous: quel avenir?", n°127 déc., 2001, p.115-131.
- Mazzella S., "Looking back on a long assignment in Tunisia: 2005-2007, Le Carnet de l'IRMC, 11 September 2013.

Contributions to collective works
- Conclusion. Nomads and nomadisms, comparative views of an archaeologist,
a sociologist and an ethnologist]" (with Jean-Paul Demoule, Serge Bahuchet),in Averbouh Aline, Goutas Nejma & Méry Sophie. Nomad lives from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day, Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 2021.
- Mazzella S., "Jean-Claude Chamboredon em Marselha. Ad Memoriam", in Pensar o Território Jean-Claude Chamboredon, uma abordagem sociológica pioneir ,Baptista, Luis Mazzella, sylvie Pereira, Patricia Silva Nunes, Joao Pedro (eds), Humus, 2020, 182-192 p.
- Migration" Manifesto, drawn up by a committee of 13 researchers (Bruno David, Frédérique Chlous, Guillaume Lecointre, Aline Averbouh,
Évelyne Heyer, Frédéric Jiguet, Hervé Le Bras, Jacques Lévy, Sylvie Mazzella,
Gilles Pison, Jocelyne Streiff-Fenart, Christine Verna, Yves Charles Zarka), Coédition Reliefs / Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Bilingual edition French / English, 2019.
- Mazzella S., "Conclusion - Circulation et appropriation des savoirs en Méditerranée dans un contexte mondialisé de transformation universitaire", in Mobilités dans l'espace migratoire. Algérie, France, Canada , N.Thamin, M. Zakaria, A-S. Calinon, A. Mahieddine, K. Ploog, Aix-en-Provence, Ed PUP, 2019.
- Mazzella S., "Entreprises transméditerranéennes du savoir en Tunisie : entre logique marchande et nouvel esprit public " , in S. Daviet (dir.) L'entrepreneuriat transméditerranéen. Les nouvelles stratégies d'internationalisation. Karthala/IRMC, 2014, 197-209.
- Introduction (with L. Anteby-Yemini, V. Baby Collin, C. Parizot, S. Mourlane, C. Regnard, P. Sintès), Borders, Mobilities and Migrations. Perspectives from the Mediterranean 19-21st Century. Peter Lang, "Regional Integration and Social Cohesion", Brussels, 2014, 11-18.
- Introduction. Part Mobility and Systems of control" (with S. Regnard), in Borders, Mobilities and Migrations. Perspectives from the Mediterranean 19-21st Century, 21-25
- North African Migration under Surveillance. Between Home Country and Host Country", in Borders, Mobilities and Migrations. Perspectives from the Mediterranean 19-21st Century. Peter Lang, "Regional Integration and Social Cohesion", Brussels, 2014, 57- 70.
- Observer les mobilités étudiantes Sud-Nord et Sud-Sud depuis le Maghreb", in R. Machart & F. Dervin (eds.), Les mobilités et migrations académiques autrement : Nouveaux espaces, nouveaux enjeux, nouveaux besoins, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. Logiques sociales, 2014, pp. 25-43.
- Une minorité visible : les cadres subsahariens à Tunis" in S. Pouessel (ed.) Noirs au Maghreb. Enjeux identitaires du rapport à l'Afrique, Karthala coll. "Hommes et Sociétés", 2012, p 115-138.
- Le Maghreb dans la construction d'un marché international de l'enseignement supérieur privé" in M. Leclerc Olive, G. Scarfò Ghellab, A.- C. Wagner (eds.), Les mondes universitaires face aux logiques du marché, Paris, Karthala, 2011, pp. 162-176.
- Le Maghreb dans la mondialisation étudiante", general introduction, 2009, in Sylvie Mazzella (ed.), La mondialisation étudiante. Le Maghreb entre Nord et Sud, Paris, Karthala / IRMC, coll. "Hommes et sociétés", 2009, p. 13- 30.
- Les étudiants africains dans les universités privées tunisiennes : nouvelles figures de l'étudiant international", in Sylvie Mazzella (ed.), La mondialisation étudiante. Le Maghreb entre Nord et Sud, Paris, Karthala / IRMC, coll. "Hommes et sociétés", 2009, p. 327-347.
- Les étudiants étrangers dans l'enseignement supérieur public et privé tunisien" (with M. Mandhouj), in Sylvie Mazzella (ed.), La mondialisation étudiante. Le Maghreb entre Nord et Sud, Paris, Karthala / IRMC, coll. "Hommes et sociétés", 2009, p. 257-282.
– "Introduction. State liberalisation of higher education? International changes and developments in the Maghreb".Alfa, Maghreb et Sciences Sociales, 2007, p.15-22.
- Kmar Bendana. The French language in Tunisian public education. Between colonial heritage and globalized 'knowledge economy'. Interview with Sylvie Mazzella", Alfa, Maghreb et Sciences Sociales on "L'enseignement supérieur dans la globalisation libérale. Une comparaison Maghreb, Afrique, Canada et France", 2007. p.197-203.
- L'enseignement supérieur privé en Tunisie. La mise en place étatique d'un secteur universitaire privé", 2006, Alfa Maghreb et Sciences Sociales, Études, p.206-217.
– "Neighbourhood effects... at street level".2006, in J-Y Authier, M-H Bacqué, F. Guérin-Pace (eds.), Le quartier. Enjeux scientifiques, actions politiques et pratiques sociales, Paris, La Découverte, coll. Recherches, 2006, p. 227-241.
– "Introduction to Chapter 3in Le quartier. Enjeux scientifiques, actions politiques et pratiques sociales, p. 177-183.
- Putting Asylum to the Test: Between Immigration Policy and Co-Development" in Between Europe and the Mediterranean. The Challenges and the Fears, 2008, Edited by Th. Fabre and P. S. Cassia, Palgrave Macmillan, 41-53 (English translation of the revised article "Putting Asylum to the Test", Entre Europe et Méditerranée. Les défis et les peurs, in Paul Sant Cassia and Thierry Fabre (eds.), Actes sud / MMSH, 2005).
- La percée originelle : entre aménagement urbain, transformation sociale et rentabilité financière", (with P. Fournier), in Pierre Fournier and Sylvie Mazzella (eds.), Marseille, entre ville et ports. Les destins de la rue de la République, Paris, La Découverte, coll. "Recherches", 2004, p. 29-39.
- Un bâti bourgeois pour des élites de seconde ordre", (with P. Fournier), in Pierre Fournier and Sylvie Mazzella (eds.), Marseille, entre ville et ports. Les destins de la rue de la République, Paris, La Découverte, "Recherches" series, 2004, pp. 103-113.
- Commerces: une politique d'attente concertée", in Pierre Fournier and Sylvie Mazzella (eds.), Marseille, entre ville et ports. Les destins de la rue de la République, Paris, La Découverte, coll. "Recherches", 2004, p. 170-184.
- Du quartier à la rue, une respectabilité malmenée", (with Pierre Fournier and Marion Pierre), in Pierre Fournier and Sylvie Mazzella (eds.), Marseille, entre ville et ports. Les destins de la rue de la République, Paris, La Découverte, coll. "Recherches", 2004, p. 288-300.
- L'arrière-boutique du port de Marseille. Commerçants établis et kamikazes d'origine maghrébine", in Michel Peraldi (ed.) Cabas et containers. Activités marches informelles et réseaux migrants transfrontaliers, Paris, Maisonneuve&Larose /MMSH, coll. "Frontières, villes : lieux de passage", 2001, p. 133-164 (Translated into Italian in 2005 "Stanziali e kamikaze nel retrobotegga del porto di Marsiglia", Marsigilia bazar del mediterraneo, Mesogea editore, p. 95-110).
- Samir en voyage d'affaires. Un business entre plusieurs mondes", (with S. Bava), in M. Peraldi (ed.) Cabas et containers. Activités marches informelles et réseaux migrants transfrontaliers, Paris, Maisonneuve&Larose/MMSH, "Villes, frontières: lieux de passage" series, 2001, pp. 269-275.
- Des marchés dans la ville, du public au privé : les promoteurs d'une légitimation marchande", (with M. Manry), in M. Peraldi (ed.), Cabas et containers. Activités marchandes informelles et réseaux migrants transfrontaliers, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose/MMSH, coll. "Frontières, villes: lieux de passage", 2001, p. 193-197.
- L'haussmannisation de la rue de la République à Marseille : l'échec d'une spéculation foncière ?" (with P. Fournier), in A. Donzel (ed.) Métropolisation, gouvernance et citoyenneté dans la région urbaine marseillaise, Paris, Maisonneuve&Larose, 2001, pp. 387-403.

Book reviews
- Baduel Pierre-Robert (ed.), Construire un monde? Mondialisation, pluralisme et universalisme (Paris, Maisonneuve&Larose / IRMC, "Connaissance du Maghreb" series, 2008), reading note published in the Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2009.
- Lassave Pierre, Les sociologues et la recherche urbaine dans la France contemporaine (Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1997), review published in Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, March 1998.
- Offner Jean-Marc, Pumain Denise (dir.), Réseaux et territoires, significations croisées (ed. de l'Aube, 1997), note de lecture published in the Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, January 1997.

Research reports
- Migration Evolutionry Temporality and Investigative Scenario, report for ANR MRSEI, 2019, 250 p.
- Three annual research reports for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and MSH Paris, manager of the FSP programme "Foreign students in the Maghreb and the Euro-Mediterranean region", 2007-2009.
- La ville parcourue. La dynamique urbaine à l'examen d'une grande artère de Marseille", (with P. Fournier), research report for the Plan urbanisme, construction, architecture of the Ministère de l'Équipement, du Logement et des Transports, 2002. 400 p.
- Tenir le lien de famille dans la mobilité France-Tunisie" (with H. Boubakri), interim report for the IRMC programme "Le Maghreb et les nouvelles configurations migratoires internationales: mobilité et réseaux" directed by H. Boubakri, 2002, 50 p.
- Les marchés municipaux à Marseille. Maillons économiques et pôles de socialisation : un premier état descriptif", Research report for the Ministry of Public Works, Urban Planning, Construction and Architecture Plan, 1999. 100 p.
- Ville (La) en mouvement. Plurimobilité des retraités dans Marseille" (with M. Haicault), Report for the Programme interdisciplinaire de recherches sur les Villes, Agence de l'environnement, Paris, 1997, 197 p.
- Cinquante ans de recherche urbaine à Marseille. Bilan bibliographique (1945-1995)", (with P.-P Zalio), Paris, Plan urbain, 1995. 127p. bibliography, map, fig.

Academic work
- Le migrant immigré. Eléments d'analyse pour une sociologie de l'immigration et des migrations, Dissertation for the habilitation to direct research in sociology, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, 2012, 244 p. Jury members: Anne-Catherine Wagner (University Professor of Sociology, Paris 1, tutor), Pierre Noël Denieuil (CNRS Research Director, HDR, Director of IRMC-Tunis), Étienne Gérard (IRD Research Director, CEPED), Élisabeth Longuenesse (CNRS Research Associate, HDR, Deputy Director of IFPO Beirut), Andrea Rea (University Professor of Sociology, Université libre de Bruxelles), Rémi Lenoir (University Professor of Sociology, Paris 1).
– Taking root in the city. Social integration and urban dynamics. North African families in Marseilles city centreThèse pour le doctorat de sociologie de l'EHESS, under the direction of Jean-Claude Chamboredon, Marseille, 1996, 408 p.

Seminars, conferences, congresses
- 1997, Mazzella S., Zalio P-P., "Marseille: pôle ou métropole", Proceedings of the 120th National Congress of Learned Societies, Aix-en-Provence.
- 10 January 1999, EHESS seminar, Paris, presentation by S. Mazzella, "L'haussmanisation de la rue de la République à Marseille : l'échec d'une spéculation foncière ?", study day "Appropriation des Expropriations, Maurice Halbwachs et les modalités des dynamiques urbaines", as part of the "Etudes Urbaines" interdisciplinary research programme led by Christian Topalov, IRESCO,
- 18-21 March 1999, "Economie et appartenance ethnique: débat théorique de part et d'autre d'atlantique", guest speaker at the "Revoir la ville" conference, Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of the French Overseas Departments, Ministry of Employment, French Guiana.
- 30 April 1999, Seminar of the Groupe de Recherche sur la Socialisation, Université Lumière Lyon II, paper given by S. Mazzella, P. Fournier, "La rue de la République à Marseille : appropriation populaire d'un bâti bourgeois et ancien, pluralité d'usages et scène de socialisation", day of "Présentation d'enquêtes urbaines" led by Y. Grafmeyer, Lyon.
- Aix-en-Provence, 4-5-6-7 May 1999, Colloque Economie de bazar dans les métropoles euroméditerranéennes, LAMES (M. Peraldi), paper entitled, "Commerces informels et espaces centraux à Marseille: l'exemplarité de Belsunce", Aix-en-Provence.
- 7 February 2000, paper presented at the Laboratoire Lames seminar on "Stratégies commerciales méditerrannéennes et l'établissement social. Des "kamikazes" à Belsunce".
- 14 February 2000, study day at URMIS, IRESCO, strategies of families of foreign origin and the school market, paper entitled "Belsunce, entre privé et public: stratégies éducatives des familles maghrébines".
- 28 March 2000, study day organised by the UMR LOUEST (urban organisation, space, society and temporality laboratory) at the Centre de recherche sur l'habitat. Ecole d'architecture de Paris-la Défense. Les enjeux de la mixité : aspects sociaux, territoriaux et politiques, paper entitled :
"Local reclassification and social times: views on Belsunce".
- Quebec, 3-7 July 2000, AISLF Congress, "Une société monde?", working group 21, Sociologie économique, chaired by J-L Laville (CRIDA-LSCI, CNRS) and L. Favreau (UQAH, Hull), entitled "Stratégies commerciales euroméditerranéennes et ancrage local".
- Toulouse, 23rd November 2000. Communication with P. Fournier at the Toulouse - Le Mirail University conference, La rue et ses figures.
- Paris, 10 November 2000, Paper presented at ENS Cachan, study day on economic sociology: from economic sociology to the sociology of economic action. Paper entitled: "the sociology of bazaar economies". Discussant : R. Swedberg.
- Lille, 8 June 2001: "L'organisation sociale de l'économie" conference, Maghrebi shopkeepers in the urban economy of Marseilles: market competition, status competition.
- Paris, 9 February 2001, Communication EHESS, IRESCO, Paris, study day organised by M.de la Pradelle, on markets in the city. Title of paper: "Statégies commerciales et projets migratoires. North African traders in Marseille". Discussant: P.-A. Rosental (EHESS).
- Aix-en-Provence, 15 February 2001, paper presented at the Lames study day: "La monographie urbaine en question". Discussant : H. Peretz (Paris VIII)
Aix-en-Provence, 8 March 2001, Paper presented at the Pôle ville seminar at the MMSH, organised by S. Bordreuil, LAMES, "Market competition, status competition between old and new foreigners".
- Marseille, 16 March 2001, paper presented at the EHESS Marseille, study day organised by M. Agier (EHESS), "Etablis et derniers venus dans l'économie urbaine de Marseille".
- Paris, 24 April 2001, discussant at the seminar organised by the Commissariat Général du Plan, "Immigration, marché du travail et intégration : les enfants d'immigrés, de l'école à la vie active". Speakers: A. Van Zanten (OSC-FNSP), L. A. Vallet (LASMAS) and Roxane Silberman (LASMAS).
- Paris, 13 February 2002, paper presented at the EHESS doctoral seminar on book reviews, TES course. Analysis of the work: La topographie légendaire des évangiles en terre sainte.
- Marseilles, 15 March 2002, discussant in M. Agier's seminar Exercices d'anthropologie urbaine at the EHESS in Marseilles, theme of the day: The research relationship.
- Poitiers, 19-20 April 2002, "Le Maghreb et les nouvelles configurations migratoires internationales: mobilité et réseaux" conference organised by H. Boubakri at the MSH, Tenir le lien de famille dans la mobilité France-Tunisie.
- Paris, EHESS, 3 December 2003 Seminar on the use of technology and information in migration. Paper "The right to asylum and new surveillance and identification technologies" by S. Mazzella.
- Marseille EHESS, SHADYC 3-4 March 2003, Study day of the doctoral training seminar "The two cities: Marseille and Cali" PH. Gaboriau, F. Urrea, "Social dynamics and urban renewal in the centre of Marseille" by S. Mazzella and P. Fournier.
- Marseille, EHESS, 15 May 2003, seminar for doctoral students in the social sciences, "Déplacements, Denuement, invention de la ville" by M. Agier, paper "La fabrication institutionnelle du clandestin légal" by S. Mazzella.
Aix-en-Provence from 26/06/2003 to 28/06/2003 SASE congress, paper entitled "La catégorie d'étranger : le travail d'objectivation du petit agent de l'Etat" ("The category of foreigner: the work of objectifying the petty agent of the State").
- University of Durham. 02/07/2004 to 04/07/2004, congress "Betwixt and Between: europe and the Mediterranean. New states and new challenges", guest speaker, "Les défis de la politique d'asile, entre construction européenne et histoire" by S.Mazzella
- Paris IRESCO 11/05/2004 seminar "experts, expert practices and the production of standards", paper "Les politiques de la ville à Marseille" by S. Mazzella and P. Fournier.
- Aix-en-Provence, MMSH- IREMAM, 8/07/2004, study day on "coexistence and recomposition of identities", title of paper By S. Mazzella "Migrants and immigrants: two distinct categories? "
- Villetaneuse, AFS congress "Dynamiques de transformations de la société française". From 24/02/2004 to 27/02/2004, RTS sociologie du droit paper "Entre la sociologie de l'immigration et la sociologie de l'administration : le droit d'asile territorial" by S. Mazzella.
- Academic year 2005-2006: responsible for the IRMC's monthly research seminar on "Thinking about new migrations", Tunis.
- Academic year 2006-2007: responsible for the monthly Ibn Khaldûn Seminar, "Theories and Methods in Social Sciences" (2nd year), organised by the IRMC and CERES (Tunisian research centre), Tunis.
- 22-23 June 2007, scientific leader of the study days on "State liberalisation in higher education. A comparison, Maghreb, Africa, Canada and France". 10 contributors from the Maghreb, France, Burkina Faso and Canada. IRMC, Tunis.
- 7 and 8 February 2007, scientific leader and moderator of study days as part of the FSP collective programme, "Foreign students in the Maghreb and the Euro-Mediterranean area", CRASC, Oran.
- 5 December 2007, guest speaker at the symposium "Genoa/Marseille: young migrants and young people of the "second generation" in the city" organised by the French Cultural Institute, Biblioteca Berio, Genoa.
2008
- 15-16 January 2008, scientific leader of two study days on "Foreign students in the Maghreb and the Euro-Mediterranean area" with all the participants in the research programme. Introduction and paper "African students in Tunisian universities: spontaneous mobility? MMSH. Aix-en-Provence.
- 3 April 2008, discussant at the conference organised by the ENS Lettres et Sciences Humaines "Cohabiter. Forms, effects, meaning, discourse and representations of cohabitation in the city", Lyon.
27-28 June 2008, scientific director of an international conference with a scientific committee: "Towards what Euro-Mediterranean university space? The Maghreb between North and South", at the IRMC, Tunis. Co-organised by IRMC and LAMES. Paper: "Étudiants africains dans les universités privées maghrébines : nouvelle figure de l'étudiant international", IRMC, Tunis.
- 19-20 June 2009, presentation on "The Maghreb in the construction of an international market for private higher education" at the international colloquium Les mondes universitaires face aux logiques du marché: circulation des savoirs et pratiques des acteurs, organised by the Acteurs émergents network (FMSH) and Hassan II-Mohammedia University, Casablanca.
- 12 November 2009, discussant at the international colloquium "Limites et frontières des espaces israéliens et palestiniens", organised by C. Parizot and S. Latte Abdallah, MMSH Aix-en-Provence.
- 27-28 January 2010, paper on "African students in private universities in the Maghreb: the new face of the international student", study day organised by the LPED-IRD Migration à la loupe, des lieux, des acteurs et des liens, Marseille
- 5 February 2010, organisation of a study day on Migrations and cosmopolitisms, introduction and presentation of the book Qu'est-ce que le cosmopolitisme? by U. Beck, MIMED cross-disciplinary programme at the MMSH, Aix-en-Provence.
- 26 February 2010, URMIS seminar, presentation of the book La mondialisation étudiante. Le Maghreb entre Nord et Sud, Nice.
- February 11, 2010, speaker at the international and interdisciplinary "Work. Space. Globalisation', CNRS/INSHS - Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon.
- 23-24 March 2010, "Migrations and new economic elites in the Mediterranean", invited speaker and session chair at the international symposium "Internal and international migration: a comparative perspective" at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. Proceedings published by CASS, (book in preparation), China.
- 19-20 June 2010, participation in the committees for the closing conference of the FSP support for social science research in the Maghreb and France, Algiers.
- 29-30 October 2010, participation in the study days of the programme "Towards trans-Mediterranean entrepreneurship. Strategies for the internationalisation of North African companies and reinvestment by North Africans in Europe", IRMC, Tunis.
- 27 October 2010, guest speaker at the IRMC for the presentation of the book La mondialisation étudiante. Le Maghreb entre Nord et Sud, with Tunisian authors, Tunis.
- 22 November 2010, scientific coordinator (with Sylvie Daviet) of a study day on "Qualified migrations and the circulation of elites", introduction and paper on "New knowledge entrepreneurs in the private training of elites in the Maghreb", MIMED cross-disciplinary programme at the MMSH, Aix-en-Provence.
- 3 December 2010, scientific leader (with M. Oberti and A. Deboulet) of a study day with a scientific committee, 'Urban and migratory experiences: cohabitation, conflicts and arrangements in the mixed city', introduction and session chair, as part of the AFS at SciencePo Paris.
- 21 January 2011, summary of the study day Circulations, exchanges, knowledge in the Mediterranean organised by students in the Professional Master's programme at the University of Provence, MMSH.
- 1 April 2011, discussant at the ENS Paris Social Sciences and Immigration seminar organised by Choukri Hmed (Dauphine, IRISSO), Alexis Spire (CNRS, CERAPS) and Claire Zalc (CNRS, IHMC).
- 10 April 2011, co-organisation with IDEMEC of a conference by Nina Glick Shiller, "Locating Migration: Thinking beyond Methodological Nationalism", MMSH.
- 1 June 2011, co-organisation (with Constance De Gourcy and Sylvie Bredeloup) of a conference by Nina Glick Shiller, "Transnational paradigm: histories, pratices and limits", as part of the Circulations méditerranéennes axis of LAMES in partnership with the LPED (IRD), MMSH.
- 13-18 June 2011, scientific leader of an international seminar in Jerusalem, "Territorial and border configurations to the test of mobility and migrations, from the 19th to 21st centuries", CRFJ (French Research Centre in Jerusalem). paper "North African migration under surveillance: between home country and host country", international seminar in Jerusalem, "Territorial and border configurations to the test of mobility and migrations, from the 19th to 21st centuries", CRFJ (French Research Centre in Jerusalem).
- 6 July 2011, organisation with Agnès Deboulet and Michel Kokoreff of a joint session RT2 Migrations, Altérité et internationalisation and RT9 Sociologie de l'urbain, Nouveaux territoires migratoires aux marges des villes : expériences urbaines et gestion politique at the 4th AFS Création et innovation congress (Grenoble, 5 - 8 July 2011).
- 9 September 2011, paper at the Congress of the European Sociological Association (ESA), and session chair at Research Network 27 'Southern European Societies': paper on 'Le Maghreb dans la construction d'un marché international de l'enseignement supérieur privé' at the University of Geneva Uni-mail.
- 17-18-19 October 2011, paper on "New South-North and South-South student mobility in the Mediterranean" at the international symposium on "Mexico in international migration", session on "Education and knowledge", organised by the MIMED network, the PACA Region, IRD-LPED, LEST and CEMCA (Mexico City).
- 13-14-15 October 2011, paper on "Student mobility from the Maghreb: Towards what chosen immigration?" at the international conference "The new age of mobility in the French Overseas Departments and Regions. From discrimination to integration", organised by Philippe Vitale, lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Provence, with the DDCS 13 and the PACA Regional Council.
- Guest speaker. Presentation of the book La mondialisation étudiante, Le Maghreb entre Nord et Sud, Lisbon Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Sociology, Portugal, 30 May to 2 June 2012.
- Invited speaker, paper "Transformation des mobilités étudiantes depuis le Maghreb", Mobility and academic migration/Mobilités et migrations académiques international conference, University Putra Malaysia, ICAMM3, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4-5 July 2012
- Guest speaker. Paper "La politique d'accueil des migrants dans la Tunisie post révolutionnaire", international colloquium "Instances religieuses et d'origine confessionnelle sur les routes de la migration Africaine" organised by IRD (LPED) at the Institut des Etudes Africaines, Rabat, Morocco, 25-26 September 2012.
- Paper at the international colloquium "Trans-Mediterranean knowledge companies between market logic and new public spirit", Towards a trans-Mediterranean entrepreneurship, Internationalisation strategies of Maghrebian companies and reinvestment strategies of Maghrebians in Europe AUF, IRMC, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence. 15-16 November 2012.
- Co-organiser of the international conference Migrations internationales et temporalités en Méditerranée XIX, XXIe siècles, LAMES, IREMAM, Telemme, IDEMEC (MIMED network), MMSH, Conference introduction and moderator, Marseille, Archives départementales. 10-12 April 2013.
- Guest speaker. Paper "[The responses of the Maghreb region to the changing international market of higher education->]".http://www.oecd.org/els/mig/PPT_Sylvie_Mazella.pdf ", Conference on Mobilizing Migrants Skills for Development in the Arab Region Tunis, OECD. 13-14 May 2013.
- Introduction and coordination (with M. Bernardot) of session 4 "Privatisation et nouveaux acteurs du champ des mobilités migratoires", Rt2, "Migrations, Altérité, Internationalisation", AFS Congress, Nantes, 4 July, 2013.
- Invited speaker, paper "Politiques publiques éducatives au Maghreb" at the colloquium "Terrains revisités en migrations africaines", IRD CODESRIA, Campus international de Hann, Senegal, 7-9 October 2013.
- Paper "Free movers" and exchange students in Europe and around the Mediterranean sea: Antagonistic figures or two sides of the same coin? (With Magali Ballatore), ISA Congress, 13-19 July 2014, Research Committee on Sociology of Education, RC04, Academic Mobility: Possibilities and Barriers Yokohama, Japan, 16 July 2014.