LE CHÊNE Elen

Contact details

elen_lechene@hotmail.fr

  • MCF in political science at Université Paris 8, researcher at CRESPPA, associate researcher at Mesopolhis
  • Thesis at Sciences Po Aix defended in May 2021 entitled Borders of the State, borders within the State: bureaucratic games and powers in the government of exiles in Turkey (1990-2020)edited by Philippe Aldrin and Aude Signoles
  • CNU-qualified lecturer in political science (section 04) and sociology and demography (section 19)

Functions

Elen Le Chêne is a lecturer in political science at the University of Paris 8, a researcher at CRESPPA-LabTop and an associate researcher at Mesopolhis. Her research activities lie at the crossroads of the political sociology of public action, the State and the European Union. Her work focuses in particular on the making of migration and border policies in Turkey between 1990 and 2020 and is devoted to the administrative elites of the State's security pole (mainly senior police and prefectoral officials) as well as the European expert‧es and consultant‧es who circulate governmental knowledge. She has also conducted research on the identification devices of Syrian exile‧es‧nes and the role of publics in the manufacture of public action and order. Her work has notably been published in the Revue française d'administration publique, Sociétés politiques comparées, Migrations et société.

Academic work

Articles in peer-reviewed journals (3)

 

  • "Bypassing in order to exist: Syrians and humanitarian actors confronted with Turkish bureaucracy", Migration and Societyvol.3, n°177, 2019, p. 53-67 (with Adrian Foucher).
  • " La fabrique de l'asile sans le droit à l'asile. The differential management of "non-European" exiles in Turkey", Comparative political societies, n° 47, 2019 [Online] : http://fasopo.org/node/275
  • "Integrated border management: circulation and international projection of a European 'model'. The example of Turkey", Revue française d'administration publique, 2017, vol. 1, no. 161, pp. 117-132.

 

Contributions to collective works (1)

 

  • " Les politiques migratoires au prisme des transformations du champ bureaucratique turc. What enlargement is doing to the "sectors" of public action in Turkey". in Claire Visier (ed.), Erdogan's Turkey, with or without Europe? Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2018, p. 57-102.

 

Book review (1)

 

  • "Aymes Marc, Gourisse Benjamin, Massicard Élise (dir.), Statecraft in Turkey. Arrangements for public action from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present day, Paris, Karthala, 2013, 432 p.", Review of Muslim Worlds and the Mediterranean [Online], Unpublished readings, online 23 May 2014. URL: http://remmm.revues.org/8558

 

Contributions to reports (2)

 

  • Coordination and drafting of a report for Noria Research, "La politique humanitaro-sécuritaire d'Ankara vis-à-vis des réfugiés syriens : entre contrôle, intégration et usages politiques", 2020, 49 p., with Adrian Foucher & Maissam Nimer.
  • Report for the Fund for the Analysis of Political Societies (FASOPO) and the French Development Agency (AFD), "Turkey on Syrian Time. Administration et contrôle des frontières", 2017, 95 p.

 

Areas of research

  • Political sociology | Relationship between politics and policiesThe relationship(s) of civil servants to politics; political loyalty; sociology of elites and intermediate civil servants; regime change.

 

  • Sociology of public action | Processes of categorisation and avoidance of public action; production and uses of expertise; depoliticisation and politicisation; public action and the political regime; street-level bureaucrats.

 

  • Sociology of the State and security policies | Sociology of the police, the prefectoral corps and European security professionals (Frontex agency, Member State experts, consultants); civil security reforms; the international market for border management expertise; risk analysis; changes in civil-military relations; control, identification and embedding systems.

 

  • Sociology of the European Union and international affairs | Transnational circulation of government norms and knowledge; European expertise market; project-based government; European professionals (European Commission, Frontex, experts).

 

  • Political sociology of contemporary Turkey

 

Membership of research networks

  • Participation in BorderMars research activities (2022 - today)
  • Participation in the work and seminars of the Turkey Observatory (2018 - 2021)
  • Creation and participation in the research activities of Solidarity Watch (2016-2019)
  • Participation in the seminars and work of the ANR Transfaire (Matières à transfaire. Espaces-temps d'une globalisation (post-)ottomane) (2016-2017)
  • Participation in LabexMed seminars and work on "Area of freedom, security and justice: a European Union public policy in search of a model" (2015-2017)

 

Teaching experience

  • Current teaching (Political Science Department, Paris 8): Transnational relations and globalisation (M1), Construction and politics of Europe (L2), Dissertation tutoring (M1)
  • Three teaching contracts: full-time ATER (Lille), part-time ATER and Teaching Mission Contract (Aix-en-Provence)
  • General political science courses: political sociology, sociology of public action, social science theories, methodology of university work and social science research
  • Specialisation courses: European Institutions and Policies, Transnational Public Action, International Relations