Chowra Makaremi is a tenured researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Issues, within the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her work focuses on security, migration control, the anthropology of law and the state, and processes of subjectivation at the margins.
She completed a PhD in anthropology at the Université de Montréal in 2010, based on an ethnographic study of border confinement for undocumented migrants in France. Her research explores the lived experience of institutional systems, particularly in relation to power and marginalisation.
Makaremi’s current work examines delinquency courts in France, reflecting on the everyday experience of justice, policies of repression, punishment and the moral economy of adjudication. Alongside her research, she teaches at the University Paris Est Créteil.
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