France Bourgouin is Visiting Senior Project Researcher, 15 September - 15 December 2007France Bourgouin will be organising an interdisciplinary colloquium at DIIS, which intends to highlight how skilled migration intersects with a broad range of social-economic, political, and institutional processes and transformations. The complete proceedings from the colloquium will be edited and published in 2008. France Bourgouin has recently completed her doctoral thesis on the migration of African capitalist elite to Johannesburg (awaiting final examination). Her work is focused on the study of processes of identification and emergence of capitalist elite migrants in relation to contemporary socio-economic and political processes and considers the links existing between elite African migration into Johannesburg and the recent transitions in the city’s economic environment, the increasing South African economic involvement throughout sub-Saharan African. Since 2003 she has been based at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is a member of the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (Iris). Before coming to Paris, she was a doctoral candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, in Johannesburg. She also lectured at the University of Pretoria and had a short internship with the Southern African Migration Project. Her academic training is in Economics, Human Geography, and Social Anthropology. Her current research project is focused on young West African business students in Paris and the formation of student associations and their recruitment by trans- national corporations in Africa. |
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