Laura Odasso's research lies at the crossroads of the sociology of international migration, the sociology of the family, the socio-anthropology of law, and the study of the reception of public action by individual citizens. They focus on lived citizenship, uses of migration law and social rights, informal learning and its materiality.
Using an intersectional and comparative approach, attentive to the interweaving of micro-, meso- and macro-social scales, she explores these themes by studying the transformations of the migrant family (binational and mixed couples, transnational families constrained by the migration regime, asylum-seeking families and family reunification, unaccompanied minors, etc.).) ; the social and politico-institutional mechanisms that stigmatize and make vulnerable migrants and their families ; and the legal intermediation practices deployed by volunteers and salaried employees of associations, social workers, lawyers, peers and others, experts or laymen, in situ or online on social networks.
Current responsibilities
- Lecturer at the University of Paris VIII Vincennes - Saint-Denis, Laboratoire Interculturalités, Apprentissages, marGes, Expériences - LIAgE
- Contract lecturer at Cergy Paris Université, attached to the EMA laboratory
- Associate researcher at the Unité de Recherches Migrations and Societies (Urmis-Paris) and at the Centre méditerranéen de sociologie, de science politique et d'histoire (Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille Univ and IEP Aix-en-Provence)
- Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations
- Member of LMI MOVIDA, IRD
- Coordinator of the PHC Tournesol France-Flanders project Investigating Separated Families: Towards a Transnational Analysis of Policies, Bureaucracy and Everyday Life (Collaboration Campus France et Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO) - Collège de France and University of Antwerp), 2024-2026
- Board member ofResearch CommitteeRC25 Language and Society, International Sociological Association
- Board member, Research Network RN35 Sociology of Migration, European Sociological Association
- Board member, Réseau Thématique RT2 Migrations, Altérité et Internationalisation, Association française de sociologie
- Scientific collaborator, Research Group on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (Germe), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Member of Structure de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le genre, l'égalité et la sexualité (Striges), Maison des sciences de l'homme, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Member of GT Inégalités, Cosav Migrations et Climat, IRD, France
- Member of the Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy)project , COST EU Action
- Member of the expert committee of the Observatoire d'ISM interprétariat, Paris (since 2022)
- Member of the scientific committee of the collection Transitions sociales et résistances, Academia-Harmattan
Recent publications
Editing of thematic journal issues
- Intermediating access - migrants, rights and statuses, Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa (with P. Bonizzoni), 2/2024.
- Intimités en tension, L'Année du Maghreb, 29, 2023 (ed. with M. de Giacometti and M. Breteau).
- Doing family Online: (In)formal knowledge circulation, information-seeking practices and support communities, Family Relations, 72 (2), 2023 (ed. with K. Geoffrion).
Articles
- Legal-administrative intermediation in the migration field. An introduction, Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, 2, 195-211. (with P. Bonizzoni)
- Intimacy as a competence. Information seeking practices in (family) migration online support groups, Families, Relationships and Societies, 13(2), pp. 304-320.
- Trust in Disaster Resilience, Disaster, Prevention and Management, 32(2), 2023 , p. 253-67 (with E. Fornalé and M. Armiero).
- Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis, Migration Studies, mnad011, 2023, online first.
- The "inconfinables" or the creation of "superfluous lives" in times of crisis, Migration Letters, 19(6), 2022, p. 739-49 (with E. Fornalé).
