CHABRE Théotime
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Researcher in sociology and political science. Holds a master's degree from the School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris. Her main areas of research are: transformations in migratory infrastructures at the EU border, nation branding (adapting marketing promotion practices for the benefit of territories and countries) and attractiveness policies, i.e. policies aimed at attracting specific populations of 'desirable' migrants. His doctoral thesis looks more specifically at the formation of destinations for international students in a peripheral area of the EU, the disputed territory of Northern Cyprus. He speaks French, English and Turkish, and can communicate in Spanish and German.
Functions
Doctoral student in sociology and political science - AMU - Doctoral school 355: Spaces, Cultures, Societies
Researcher member of the research collective Noria Research
Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence
Member of theConvergence Migration Institute (ICM) since June 2018
Co-responsible for Privileged Migration" seminar at the ICM
Academic work
Student intermediaries in the migration infrastructure, European Journal of International Migration,
2023 (to be published)
"Kuzey Kıbrıs'ta Afrikalı Üniversite Öğrencileri ve Türkiye Yüksek Öğrenim Dünyası ile", in. Karmaşık
Bağlantılar Küresel Çağda Afrika'dan Türkiye'ye Göç ve Göç Teorileri : İşçiler, işportacılar, patronlar,
öğrenciler, mültecilerKadir Has Yayinlari, 2023 (forthcoming)
"An economy based on youth: Attracting "African students" to North Cyprus", in Childhood and
young people on the moveSouiah and Baby-Collin, Mimed, September 2022
Alternative hubs for international higher education: the case of Malaysia and North Cyprus, Théotime Chabre
and Jimmy Stef, Center of Higher Education Futures, Aarhus University, (forthcoming)
"The organisation of Turkish Islam in France". In L'exemple du statut des ministres du culte musulmans dans le
mosques , Fregosi and Boursin (eds), Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023 (forthcoming)
The cause of the disappearanceCahiers d'études balkaniques, INALCO, 2020
"Claire Visier (ed.) Erdoğan's Turkey: with or without Europe? Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes,
2017, 277 pages "Critique internationale, 2019/2 (No. 83), p. 205-208
"Higher Education makes North Cyprus known to the world", Politicizing the attractiveness of higher education in North CyprusECPR, 08.2022
The European Commission's ambivalent mandate in Northern Cyprus examined through the local management of EUPSO programmes and their beneficiariesST 10, AFSP, 07.2022
An unstable area: the "Eastern Mediterranean", gas and attempts to renew the Cyprus QuestionST 57, ASFP, 07.2022
Observing sovereignty through migration control: comparing the 'education-migration' nexus in the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cypruss, TD05, ISA 2022, 31.03.2022
Study mobility to an alternative destination: the case of sub-Saharan students, Rencontres des Etudes Africaines en FranceLeaving to study, studying to leave" panel, 07.2022 (forthcoming)
Introduction to the "Privileged Migration? "Convergences Migration Institute, CESSP, Migrinter, Mesopolhis, 7-8.12.2021
Integration through globalisation? "North Cyprus and the transnational knowledge economy", Convergences Migrations Institute back-to-school day, 15.09.2021
Unrecognition and extraversion: The international higher education space of North Cyprus, International Political Sociology Seminar, Queens Mary University and King's College London, 08.05.2021 (online)
Diversity among the new destinations of International Higher Education: the case of Malaysia and North Cypruswith Jimmy Stef and Taina Saarinen, Alternative Internationalism workshop, Center For Higher Education Futures, Aarhus University, 28.06.2021
Attracting 'African students'. The case of Northern Cyprus, LAMES doctoral day (Mesopolhis), 01.06.2020
Transit migration/student mobility? The case of international universities in the non-EU Euro-Mediterranean area, Euro-Mediterranean Relations Observatory Day, 12.12.19
The role of "local experts" in the European development system, AFS, RT 27 "Sociology of intellectuals and expertise: knowledge and power", 27.08.19
Collective action and the 'sudden' politicisation of foreign students in a highly politicised context: the case of the VOIS association AFSP, ST 85 "Migration, a subject for or beyond political science", 04.07.2019
Bringing in international students or attracting "alternative tourists"? Making sense of the dynamics of higher education, Royal Geographical Society-IBG international conference, 30.09.2018.
Internationalisation in a context of non-recognition: the case of the Higher Education system in North Cyprus, 11th EURODOCS Conference, 18.05.18
Areas of research
Migration studies: Privileged migrations
Internationalisation of higher education
Political sociology of the international: economic and political actors in transnational management
student mobility
International relations: Small state studies and De Facto states Studies
Scientific coordinator, programme manager
2022-2023: Co-responsible for the Privileged Migration" seminar at the ICM
2018-2022: Co-Head of the "Privileged Migrations" Axis at the ICM
7-8 December 2021: Co-organiser of the Privileged Migration" international conference
June 2019 - Winner of the "end of thesis" contract from the Institut Convergences Migration / CNRS for the calendar year 2021
2019-2020: Member of the steering committee of the Observatory of Euro-Mediterranean Relations, AMU
2019 - 2021: Co-organiser of the LAMES seminar (now Mesopolhis)
2018 - 2023: ED 355 doctoral student representative
2018 - present: active member of Noria Research. Participation in the organisation of exchange seminars, research support programmes, organisation of the annual call for grants.
2014: Research programme at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies on people who disappeared during the violence.
in the Kurdish regions of Turkey during the 1990s.
Productions
In Cyprus, the North/South rivalry is now being played out on the economic stage, International issues -
France Culture, 14.12.21
Mobility by default: the "new destinations" of Nigerian students, In Migrate without
barriers De facto, Institut Convergences Migrations, 27.07.21
Erasmus + and the internationalisation of higher education, Carto, 03.21
Northern Cyprus, at the heart of Turkish concerns, The Conversation, 12.20
Turkey and its neighbours faced with the epidemic, The Conversation, 04.2020
List of publications on HAL
Pre-publication, Working paper
Théotime Chabre. Internationalisation in a context of non-recognition: the case of Higher Education in Northern Cyprus. 2021. ⟨hal-03194339⟩
Article in a magazine
Théotime Chabre. Producing a victimary cause in a post-conflict space: the treatment of disappearance within the Turkish Cypriot community. Cahiers Balkaniques, 2020, ⟨10.4000/ceb.13791⟩. ⟨hal-02529756⟩
Théotime Chabre. Claire Visier (Dir.) La Turquie D'Erdoğan : avec ou sans l'Europe ? Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017,. Critique Internationale, 2019, ⟨10.3917/crii.083.0205⟩. ⟨hal-02529797⟩
Presentation at a conference
Théotime Chabre. Collective action and "subjured?" politicisation of foreign students in a highly politicised context: the case of the VOIS association. AFSP Congress 2019, AFSP, Jul 2019, Aix en Provence, France. ⟨hal-02529814⟩
Conference poster
Théotime Chabre. Internationalisation through knowledge: the international networks of North Cyprus universities. ED 355 doctoral day, Jun 2018, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-02529803⟩