Member

oriane-sebillotte

Oriane SEBILLOTTE

Position
Ph. D. Student

Institution
EHESS

Team
PARIS

E-mail
oriane.sc ( at ) hotmail.fr

Research theme
Urban studies, migrations

Adress
Géographie-cités • Campus Condorcet
5 cours des Humanités 93322 Aubervilliers cedex

Education

2022 PhD candidate in Geography (Territories, Migrations, Development) at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, fellow ICM. « The informalization of migrant reception: Residential trajectories on the margins of Greater Paris », under the supervision of Dr. Djemila Zeneidi and Dr. Marianne Blidon.

2020 – 2022 Master Migrations, EHESS, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut Convergence Migrations.

  • 2022 « Quelles places pour les migrants ? Reconfiguration des campements de l’agglomération parisienne, enjeux de visibilité, résistances et négociations ». Master’s thesis, supervised by Dr. Marianne Blidon, defended on June 21, 2022, in the presence of Dr. Marianne Blidon and Dr. Stefan Le Courant.
  • 2021 « L’engagement associatif face à l’enquête de terrain : positionnement et réflexivité ». Master 1 internship thesis, supervised by Dr. Marianne Blidon.

2013 – 2014 Specialization in animation and 3D at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of Rio de Janeiro.

2010 – 2012 Bachelor’s degree in graphic design at the Institut Supérieur d’Arts Appliqués (LISAA).

Scientific Activities

Research Projects

2023 – Present: Collectif de recherche sur l’indésirabilité (CRI) – Research Collective on Undesirability, coordinated by Muriel Froment-Meurice, Claire Hancock, and Félicie Roux, supported by the French Defender of Rights and the LabEx Futurs Urbains.

2022 – 2025: Datasile, coordinated by Alexis Spire, Karen Akoka, Alain Morice, and Fred Salin, with workshops led by Philippe Rekacewicz and Philippe Rivière.

Scientific Committee

2024 – Present: Scientific Committee of the Observatoire des expulsions de lieux de vie informels.

Field Studies

2023 – 2025: Qualitative study on the residential trajectories of migrants in France. Conducted interviews with 51 individuals across six reception and living spaces in the Île-de-France region.

February 2022: Quantitative study coordinated by Médecins du Monde and Act Up on access to State Medical Aid (AME) in Paris, focusing on CPAM beneficiaries.

June – September 2021: Inter-associative quantitative and qualitative study on the living conditions and access to rights of exiles frequenting five reception centers in Paris, Les oubliés du droit d’asile.

Research Seminars

2025 – Present: Organizing committee member of the working group “Writing and Sensitive Creations in Migration Research”, Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM), POLICY department.

2023 – 2025: Working group “Cities and Migrations”, Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM), POLICY department.

2023 – 2024: Working group “Politicization, Mobilizations, and Migrations”, Association française de sciences politiques (AFSP).

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Doyen, P., Piva, A. & Sebillotte, O. (forthcoming). “I Want to Go Where the Refugees Are”: The Role of Intermediaries Upon Arrival in Paris. Mondes & Migrations, 1348.

Piva, A. & Sebillotte, O. (2025). Territory of a Struggle for the Right to Housing in Paris, Geography of Mobilization and Its Control: The Case of the Réquisitions Collective. Justice Spatiale | Spatial Justice, 19.

Masson Diez, E., Sebillotte, O. & Gerbier-Aublanc, M. (2023). Gender and Race in Hospitality Relations: When White Women Host Black Men. Cahiers du genre, 75, 257-281.

Book Chapter

Doyen, P., Piva, A. & Sebillotte, O. (forthcoming). The Reception of Migrants in Île-de-France at the Margins of Institutional Systems. In: Bénédicte Michalon & Thomas Lacroix, Des localités pour accueillir: l’accueil des migrants dans les localités de France et d’ailleurs. Éditions du bord de l’eau.

Pre-publications

Doyen, P., Piva, A. & Sebillotte, O. (2023). The Reception of Migrants in Île-de-France at the Margins of Institutional Systems. Localacc Working Papers series, 6, Institut Convergences Migrations.

Non-scientific Journals

Sebillotte, O. (2024). “We Don’t Want Tourists to See Us…” The Olympics and the Invisibilization of Migrants on the Streets. Les Temps qui restent, 2.

Presentations

International Conferences

November 5, 2021: “Enquête inter-associative sur l’errance des personnes exilées à Paris : retour sur une recherche-action” with Marie Cougoureux, Pauline Doyen, and Annaelle Piva. 6th International Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Residential Trajectories of Refugees, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers: Vulnerability, Assistance, and Policies, Sciences-Po Paris.

Conferences

October 14, 2024: “Des SAS et des Jeux : reconfigurations et continuités des trajectoires résidentielles face aux politiques d’éloignement” with Julie Lavayssière. Conference “Quelle(s) porte(s) vers l’hébergement pour les personnes migrantes ? Effets pratiques des catégorisations dans l’accès à l’hébergement de sans-abri (pas) comme les autres”, Condorcet Campus, Aubervilliers.

September 5, 2024: Roundtable “Enquêter sur la police et la gendarmerie”, at the Conference of the Collectif de recherche sur l’indésirabilité (CRI): “Enquêter sur la police, envers et contre tout”, Cité Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne.

June 12, 2024: “Hospitality and Eviction Strategies in the City: Clean-Up Policies and Resistance in the Perspective of the Olympic Games” with Tania Racho. Spring school “Urban Ecology in Paris: Public Policies, Urban Commons, and Aesthetic Perspectives”, Young Universities for the Future of Europe, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3.

May 3, 2024: “Recherche et militantisme face aux inégalités et violences subies par les personnes exilées : le Collectif Accès aux Droits et autres projets” with Camille Gardesse. Conference of the Collectif de recherche sur l’indésirabilité (CRI): “Recherche-action”, University of Paris-Est Créteil.

October 13, 2023: “De l’engagement à la recherche : positionnement, détours et construction réciproque”, Young Researchers Conference of the Paris Institute of Geography (JIG): “L’action dans la recherche et la recherche dans l’action : quelles imbrications ?”, Paris Institute of Geography.

September 15, 2023: “L’accueil des personnes migrantes en Île-de-France à la marge des dispositifs institutionnels” with Annaelle Piva and Pauline Doyen. PACE and LocalAcc Conference: “Exil, passage et refuge. Solidarité et criminalisation hier et aujourd’hui”, Science-Po-CERI.