Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
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| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Institute for International Political Studies |
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Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (born 6 June 1950[1]) is a French political scientist. She is the Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a senior researcher at the Institute for International Political Studies. Wihtol de Wenden specializes in migration studies. She is also an activist for the right to immigration in France.
Career
[edit]Wihtol de Wenden earned a PhD from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1986.[2] She then joined the political science faculty of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where she later became Research Director.[3] She is also a senior researcher at the Institute for International Political Studies.[4]
Wihtol de Wenden has been a consultant to the OECD, the Council of Europe, and the European Commission as well as an external expert to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.[5] She was also a member of the French National Commission on Security Ethics (fr) from 2003 to 2011.[6]
In 2014, she was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.[4] In 2018, she was promoted to the rank of Officier.[7] She also won the médaille d'honneur from the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2017.[4]
Wihtol has been vocal in the French media in support of loosening restrictions on migration to France.[8][9][10][11]
Selected works
[edit]- Citoyenneté, nationalité et immigration, Arcantère, 1987
- Les immigrés et la politique. Cent-cinquante ans d'évolution, Presses de la FNSP, 1988
- Les étrangers dans la cité. Expériences européennes, with Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison, La Découverte, 1993
- La bourgeoisie. Les trois âges de la vie associative issue de l'immigration, with R. Leveau, CNRS Ed., 2001. (pocket edition 2007, ISBN 978-2271065964)
- Atlas des migrations: Un équilibre mondial à inventer, 2012, ISBN 978-2746730816.
- Pour accompagner les migrations en Méditerranée, L'Harmattan, 2013, ISBN 978-2-343-01077-9
- L'Immigration. Découvrir l'histoire, les évolutions et les tendances des phénomènes migratoires, Eyrolles, 2016, ISBN 978-2-212-56472-3
Selected awards
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BnF General catalog". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". SUDOC. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". Ideas for Development. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". Institute for International Political Studies. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". French Cultural Centre of New York. 19 October 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". The Cairo Review. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Décret du 19 mai 2018 portant promotion et nomination" (in French). Legifrance, Government of France. 19 May 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ Catherine Wihtol de Wenden; Hélène Decommer (6 October 2014). "Eric Zemmour à "ONPC" : au moins 3 erreurs sur l'immigration, voici la réalité". Le Nouvel Obs (in French). Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (23 October 2013). "Le danger du contrôle de l'immigration". La Croix (in French). Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Covid-19 : "vouloir fermer les frontières est inutile", tranche Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". Franceinfo. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "" Les migrants interrogent la France, l'Europe et la planète tout entière "". L'Est Républicain (in French). 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
