Laura Odasso

Laura Odasso is a sociologist, a researcher at the Chair of Migration and Society at the Collège de France, and a member of the Institut Convergences Migrations in Paris. She is also an associate researcher at the Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie (Mediterranean Sociology Laboratory) at Aix–Marseille University and a scientific collaborator at the Groupe de Recherche sur les Relations Ethniques, les Migrations et l’Égalité (GERME; Research Group on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium, where, in 2014–2016, she led the AMORE research project (Awareness and Migration. Organisations for Bi‑national Family Rights Empowerment) funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program.

Characterized by a comparative and qualitative approach, her research is situated at the intersection of the sociology of family migration, the sociology of law, and the sociology of public action as seen from the perspective of its beneficiaries and legal intermediaries in Europe and the Arab world.

Her publications include: Mixités conjugales. Discrédit, résistances et créativités dans les familles avec un partenaire arabe (Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016); Border Lampedusa (London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), co‑edited with Gabriele Proglio; and Faire et défaire les liens familiaux. Usages et pratiques du droit en contexte migratoire (Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020), co‑written with Aurélie Fillod-Chabaud.