MALLET Philémon

Contact details

philemon.mallet@sciencespo-aix.fr

I'm a PhD student in political science working on migration and border policies in Bulgaria.

Functions

Doctoral student under the supervision of Dorota DAKOWSKA (MESOPOLHIS) and the co-direction of Mathilde DARLEY (IRIS)

Academic work

Areas of research

Migration studies

Sociology of public action

European migration policies

Contemporary Bulgaria

Productions

Scientific events:

  • «Enforcing or disrupting the state's monopoly over the border? The ambiguous entanglements between civil search-and-rescue operations on the Bulgarian Turkish border and the Bulgarian state». April 2026. Seminar on the Border. Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy. Podlasie, Poland.
  • «Dramatisation, politicisation and rejection: Bulgarian police officers» relations to Europe at the Bulgarian-Turkish border of the EU and the Schengen area". June 2026. ST 27 Espaces politiques et frontières extérieures de l'Union européenne à l'épreuve de l'enjeu migratoire. AFSP Congress. Lyon, France.

Courses given:

  • «Return to a constrained terrain on Bulgaria's Turkish border» (2 hrs). Methodology. January 2026. Master 1 & 2 Migrations. Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne & EHESS.
  • «The Europeanisation of Bulgaria (2 hrs). Societies and political regimes in Europe. March 2026. Master 1 European Politics. Sciences Po Aix.
  • «Racialisation and ethnic minorities in Bulgaria (2 hrs). Societies and political regimes in Europe. March 2026. Master 1 European Politics. Sciences Po Aix.