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Cinzia Losavio has recently graduated with her PhD in geography from Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne University (UMR 8504 Géographie-cités) under the supervision of Natacha Aveline-Dubach. Her P.h.D. research is part of the EU-China Medium Project (New pathways for sustainable urban development in China’s medium-sized cities). It has benefitted from the financial support of the LabEx DynamiTe (ANR-11-LABX-0046) and from the collaboration with the School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University. Standing at the crossroads of human geography, urban geography and political sociology, her thesis investigates the residential anchoring of the Chinese internal migrants as part of their urban integration process. Most of her work has revolved around both formal and informal modalities of urban residential integration processes, insisting simultaneously on top-down as well as on bottom-up narratives and on the meso level connecting them. The methodology relies on participant observation, ethnographic fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and public policy analysis. The research findings shed light on the complex processes of residential production as well as on the highly selective and competitive model of migrants’ integration in the urban space.

2016 – 2022  P.h.D. Doctor of Philosophy, Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Doctoral School of Geography (UMR 8504 – Géographie-Cités Laboratory)

Subject: “Stratifying Chinese internal migrants to serve urban and economic growth: the differentiated processes of residential anchoring in Zhuhai through the prism of informality.”

Supervisor: Prof. Natacha Aveline-Dubach

Thesis defence (accepted with no revisions): Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Jury members:

• Natacha Aveline-Dubach, CNRS, UMR Géographie-cités,
• Jean-Claude Driant, Examinateur, Université Paris Est Créteil
• Gilles Guiheux, Rapporteur, Université Paris Cité
• Sébastien Jacquot, Examinateur, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
• Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Rapporteure, CNRS, ENS Lyon
• Simeng Wang, CNRS, UMR CERMES3

2022-2023 : Temporary Teaching Researcher assistants (A.T.E.R.) in Geography 

Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Geography department (UFR 08), (French) (96h)

• International migration and mobility (BA2 S3)
• Cultural Geography (BA1 S2)
• Advanced methods of Field Research

2021-2022 : Seminar Instructor

• Migration theories and qualitative methods of analysis: Shifting attention to Asia (BA2 S4)
• Comparative Politics: a global perspective on Politics in Asia (BA2 S3)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

LOSAVIO Cinzia, « China’s Internal Migrants: Processes of Categorisation and Analytical Issues », China Perspectives,2021/2 | 2021, 49-60. Online since 01 June 2022,

Link (EN): http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/11750

Link (FR): http://journals.openedition.org/perspectiveschinoises/12178

Book chapters

LOSAVIO Cinzia, 2019, “Building wealth through a stratified inclusion: the point-based hukou system in Zhuhai”, in Natacha Aveline-Dubach (ed.) Pathways of sustainable urban development across China —the cases of Hangzhou, Datong and Zhuhai, 2019, Chapter 8, pp. 108-120, Venice: Imago editor

Link: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02873431/document

Encyclopaedia entries

LOSAVIO Cinzia (forthcoming) ‟Chengzhongcun (China)” in Ledeneva A., Teague E., Matijevic P., Moisé G.M., Majda P., Toqmadi M. (eds.) The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality. Volume 3. London: UCL Press. Online publication 2020.

Link: https://www.in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chéngzhōngcūn_(China)

LOSAVIO Cinzia (forthcoming) ‟Xiaochanquan (China)”. in Ledeneva A., Teague E., Matijevic P., Moisé G.M., Majda P., Toqmadi M. (eds.) The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality. Volume 3. London: UCL Press. Online publication 2020.

Link: https://www.in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Xiaochanquan_(China)

Articles in other scientific journals

LOSAVIO Cinzia, 2020, “China’s internal migrants housing and the tricks of urban integration”, GIS ASIE online, article du mois, 1/7/2020

Link (EN): http://www.gis-reseau-asie.org/en/chinas-internal-migrants-housing-and-tricks-urban-integration

Link (FR) : http://www.gis-reseau-asie.org/index.php/fr/le-logement-des-migrants-internes-en-chine-les-ruses-de-lintegration-urbaine

Dissemination of research results

October 2021       Participating (with five photographs) in the photography exhibition “Les métiers de la recherche” by The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and IRHT and IHTP, 5-20 October 2021, North and South buildings, Condorcet campus, Aubervillierss

Link : https://geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/en/exposition-cnrs/

June 2021  Interview by Euronews Serbia on the issue of urban villages in China, Jovan Đurić “Nevidljivi ljudi Kine – buldožeri u tami noći ruše stotine kuća uz pretnje huligana i ćutanje policije” (China’s invisible population), Euronews – Serbia, 13 June 2021

Link : https://www.euronews.rs/svet/planeta/3215/nevidljivi-ljudi-kine-buldozeri-u-tami-noci-ruse-stotine-kuca-uz-pretnje-huligana-i-cutanje-policije/vest

International conferences and seminars

July 2023 (forthcoming)   “Building Wealth through a Stratified and High-End Inclusion: The New Social Ladder of Internal Migrants in Urban China: The Case of Zhuhai (Guangdong) XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, June 25-July 1, 2023, Melbourne, Australia (abstract accepted)

August 2020 ‟An ‘integrated’ definition of informality as a theoretical spectrum to study urban integration modes: the case of migrants’ housing in Zhuhai (Guangdong)”, 2020 IGU Urban Commission Online Meeting, 24-26 August 2020

September 2019  “Rethinking internal migration and urban development through an ‘integrated definition of informality’ : The case of Zhuhai (Guangdong)”, International Workshop : “From economic to political informality: exploring the link between shadow practices, policy making and development”, Lund University, Sweden 17-19 September 2019

June 2019  “Migrants’ housing in Zhuhai (Guangdong): Understanding urban informality through urban integration patterns.”, 2019 International Conference on China’s Urban Development, 28-29 June 2019, Beijing

November 2017  “Migrant workers and urban integration: comparing China and Vietnam through the prism of residential condition” (in collaboration with Minh TRAN KHAC), Workshop “Shared perspectives upon emergent forms of urban densification in Asia: issues of access to resources (services, housing, employment and land)”, 13-16 November 2017, Hanoi Architectural University, Hanoi

November 2017  “Social policies for economic development: creating greater but differentiated inclusion. Hukou reforms and housing policy in Zhuhai” (in collaboration with Chloé FROISSART), workshop “Migrations and Metropolis in a cross-national perspective”, The Sino-French Center (CFC) 11 November 2017, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

June 2017  “China’s new urbanization strategy: Chinese migrant-workers and medium-sized cities”, 6th FrenchNetwork for Asian Studies International Conference (FNASIC) 26-28 June 2017, Science Po, Paris.

June 2017  “Studying migrants’ housing choices and conditions in Chinese medium sized-cities: a case study of Zhuhai”, Urban China and the challenges of sustainability – Medium International Conference, 16-18 June 2017, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.

June 2017  “Investigating in China in the frame of a bilateral project: Ethnographic approach and new tools”,workshop « Faire des sciences sociales en Chine : expériences et pratiques de terrain », The Sino-French Center (CFC), 3 June 2017, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

May 2017  “Agent-based Modeling of Migrant Workers Residential Dynamics within a Mega-city Region: the Case of Pearl River Delta, China” (in collaboration with Juste Raimbault), International Conference on China Urban Development, 5-6 May 2017, UCL, London.

December 2016  “Migrant workers and Chinese medium-sized cities: the issue of migration in China’s new urbanization strategy”, Urban sustainable development in Zhuhai – Medium Scientific Seminar, 3-5 December 2016, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.

National conferences and workshops

January 2022  « Stratifier la ‘population flottante’ pour une nouvelle reconfiguration urbaine : le processus d’intégration des migrants de l’intérieur à Zhuhai (Guangdong) », WG “Migrations, social mobilities and categorisation” of the Convergence Migrations Institute (ICM), department Integer, 26 January 2022, Campus Condorcet, Research building South, Aubervilliers (Paris).

June 2021  « Une notion « intégrée » d’informalité pour investiguer les modes d’intégration résidentielle des migrants de l’intérieur en milieu urbain : Le cas de Zhuhai (Guangdong) », workshop « Faire avec l’informel ? », LabEx DynamiTe WG “Rethinking the production of the urban between Global North and Global South”, 30 June 2021, Campus Condorcet, Research building South, Aubervilliers (Paris).

April 2019  “Offre de logement, statut migratoire et choix résidentiel à Zhuhai (Guangdong) : étude du mode d’insertion en ville par le logement des migrants chinois de l’intérieur.”, Doctoral seminar Géographie-cités Laboratory – C.R.I.A., Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University, 12 April 2019, Institut de Géographie, Paris.

April 2019  “Les migrants de l’intérieur en Chine : Processus de catégorisation et enjeux analytiques”, 2019 Young researchers’ seminar of the Doctoral School of Geography, Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University, titled « Compter, classer, hiérarchiser. Approches, usages et critiques de la hiérarchisation », 3 April 2019, Institut de Géographie, Paris.

April 2016  “Où en est l’intégration sociale des migrants chinois ? Une étude de cas à Wuhan.” Séminaire doctoral Chine du CERI, discussant Professeur Stéphane Beaud (Paris X-Nanterre University),  6 April 2016, Sciences Po – CERI, Paris.

Participation in Research Project

International projects

2016 – 2018  Young researcher of the EU-China MEDIUM project: “New pathways for sustainable urban development in China’s medium-sized cities”, Zhuhai, China,  (Project lead: Natacha Aveline-Dubach)

Organisation of scientific events

June 2017 Urban China and the challenges of sustainability – Medium International Conference, 16-18 June 2017, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou China

March 2017  3rd MEDIUM Stakeholder workshop, 17 March 2017, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China

June 2017  “Stakeholder workshop” Training Session – MEDIUM’s Action, 12 – 14 June 2017, Shanxi DatongUniversity, China

Research Working Groups

Since 2022  Member of the WG “Cities and Migrations” of the Convergence Migrations Institute (ICM), Policy Department (coordinators: Anouk Flamant, Laura Guérin and Emeline Zougbédé)

Since 2021  Member of the WG “Migrations, social mobilities and categorisation” of the Convergence Migrations Institute (ICM), Integer department (coordinators: Jennifer Bidet, Hugo Bréant, Olivier Leservoisier)

Since 2018  Member of the cross-disciplinary group “The urban fabric: processes, actors, practices”, Paris 1 – Panthéon la Sorbonne University, (coordinators: Antoine Fleury, Juliette Maulat)

Since 2016 Member of the WG “Rethinking the production of the urban between Global North and Global South”, LabEx DynamiTe (coordinators: Antoine Fleury, Marianne Morange, Charlotte Vorms)

2014 – 2015  French teacher as a volunteer, Sino-French Organization Pierre-Ducerf (Paris)

2013 – 2014 Italian teacher, Hunan University – Law department (Changsha, China)

2013  Intern, International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) in Paris, Asian desk

    2020             Winner of the Young Scholars Grant 2020, IGU Urban commission 2020

2016 – 2018      European Commission doctoral mobility grant in the framework of the EU-China MEDIUM Project

2016 – 2019      LabEx DynamiTe Doctoral grant (ANR-11-LABX-0046), Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University

2013 – 2014     Confucius Institute scholarship (Université of La Sapienza, Rome): studying advanced Mandarin Chinese at the Hunan University, Changsha (China)

      2011           Erasmus scholarship – European exchange programme: Research, analysis and translation of Classical Chinese texts at École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France

     2010            Lisum scholarship – International exchange programme: studying advanced Mandarin Chinese at Wuhan University, Hubei (China)

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